Resume—David A. Jaffe

 

MUSICAL EDUCATION

Doctor of Musical Arts and MA degrees in composition, Stanford University (1983); BA degree (music major), Bennington College (1979); Ithaca College School of Music (1974-76); private studies (1963-1973).

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

MacGeorge Fellow, Melbourne University, Australia (1995); Visiting Lecturer, University of California at San Diego (1994); Visiting Composer, Banff Centre for the Arts (1992, 1994); Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University (1992); Lecturer/Research Associate, Stanford University (1983-1991).

 

COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE POSITIONS

National Endowment for the Arts Composer-In-Residence, Chanticleer (1991); Artist-in-Residence, Banff Centre for the Arts (1992, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2002); Rockefeller Foundation Visiting Composer, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1990); Composer-in-Residence, Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East (1980).

 

COMMISSIONS

Commissions from the Russian Arts Foundation/Russian National Orchestra (2001), Quarks! (2000), Irene Mitri (1999), the International Computer Music Conference and the University of Michigan (1998), Earplay (1997), the Lafayette String Quartet (1996), the University of Victoria (1993), the American Guild of Organists (1992), Lynn Kirby (1992), Chanticleer (1987 and 1991), the Modern Mandolin Quartet (1989), the Skidmore College Chorus (1989), the Redwood Symphony (1986), William Wallach (1986), the Kronos Quartet (1984), the Mostly Modern Orchestra (1983), Julie Feves (1982), Edward Gans (1981), David Starobin (1980), the Woolley Foundation (1978), and Bennington College (1978).

 

AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

California Arts Council/NEA Artist Fellowship (2000); Ross McKee Foundation Grant (1998); National Endowment for the Arts Collaborative Fellowship (1992-95); Featured Composer, Bratislava Electronic Computer Art & Music Project, Slovakia (1995); Keynote Speaker, Conference of the Australian Computer Music Association (1995); National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowships (1983, 1989); USIA Fund for Musicians at International Festivals Grant (1988); First Prize, Hamilton Chorus Commission Competition (1986); Invited Speaker, Aspen Design Conference (1985); Prize in Newcomp Composition Contest (1983); Presser Foundation Scholar (1977).

 

SELECTION OF PERFORMANCES

Performances in 25 countries, including these concerts: Trimpin installation, Seattle (2003); STOMPS festival, Stokholm, Sweden (2002); Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California (2001); Society for New Music, Syracuse, NY (2000); San Francisco Symphony chamber music series (1998); the Earplay concert series, San Francisco (1998); the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players concert series (1998, 1985); Festival of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, Havana (1997); the International Computer Music Conference (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1999; Thessaloniki, Greece, 1997; Banff, Canada, 1996, Arhus, Denmark, 1994; Montreal, Canada, 1991; Glasgow, Scotland, 1990; Vancouver, Canada, 1985; Denton, Texas, 1981); the Discoveries Festival in Aberdeen, Scotland (1997); the Bourges Festival, France (1994); the Cabrillo Music Festival, California (1991, 1986); Festival Por La Musica en Las Americas, Buenos Aires (1991); the Chanticleer concert series, San Francisco (1991, 1986); the Bergen Festival, Norway (1989); the ISCM Warsaw Autumn Festival, Poland (1987); the Brooklyn Philharmonic concert series, New York City (1986); the American Festival in London, England (1984); the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra concert series, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1984); the Berlin Festival, Germany (1983); the Venice Biennale, Italy (1982).

 

 

CD RECORDINGS

The Russian National Orchestra Bass Quintet

  Pentatone Classics, 2003. Includes: Who’s on First?

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

  Well-Tempered Productions WTP 5181, 1996.

XXIst century mandolin, acoustic and computer music for the mandolin by David A. Jaffe

  Well-Tempered Productions WTP 5164, 1994

intercambio/exchange, computer music from Buenos Aires and California

  CCRMA, LIPM, CRCA, and the Rockefeller Foundation, 1994. Includes: American Miniatures

The Virtuoso in the Computer Age—V

  CDCM Vol. 15. CRC 2190 Centaur, 1994. Includes: Terra Non Firma; Wildlife

New Music for Orchestra

  VMM 3024, Vienna Modern Masters, 1994. Includes: Whoop for Your Life!

CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 8

  CRC 2091, Centaur, 1991. Includes: Telegram to the President, 1984

Dinosaur Music—Music by Chafe, Jaffe and Schottstaedt

  WER 2016-50 Wergo, 1988. Includes: Silicon Valley Breakdown

The Digital Domain

  Elektra/Asylum Records 9 60303-2, 1983. Includes: Finale to Silicon Valley Breakdown

 

PUBLICATIONS OF COMPOSITIONS

Silicon Valley Breakdown, Schott, Weihergaten 5, 6500 Mainz, Germany, 1988.

Ellis Island Sonata, Plucked String Editions Incorporated, PO Box 11125, Arlington, VA, 1987.

Other works: Terra Non Firma Publishing, Berkeley, CA. 2003.

 

WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Articles in book compilations The Music Machine and The Well-Tempered Object, MIT Press; articles in Perspectives of New Music, Leonardo Music Journal, and LULU; two articles in Interface Journal of New Music Research; six articles in Computer Music Journal; nineteen articles in proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, the Audio Engineering Society, the International Conference on Auditory Display and the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.

 

PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECTURES

Invited speaker at the ASPEN Design Conference, the Danish Computer Music Seminar, I Symposio Brasileiro de Computacao e Musica, Caxambu (Brazil), the USENIX Conference in Nashville, the LIPM studio in Buenos Aires, and the Festival Por la Musica en las Americas, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Papers presented at the International Conference on Speech, Audio and Signal Processing in Tokyo, and at International Computer Music Conferences at the IRCAM studio in Paris, as well as in Venice, Aarhus (Denmark), Vancouver, Montreal, Banff, Scotland, Rochester (NY), and Columbus (Ohio). Lectures given at the DAAD Computer Music Festival in Berlin, and at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Champaigne-Urbana, Mills College, San Jose State University, McAllister College (Minneapolis), San Francisco State University, the Inst. fuer Experimentelle und Elektroakustische Musik (Vienna), the University of Victoria, and the Universities of California at Berkeley, San Diego and Santa Barbara.

 

INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS

Virtuoso level on mandolin; highly skilled improviser on violin/mandolin; skilled on violin, guitar, 5-string banjo, mandocello and conducting; also have studied percussion, cello, oboe and trombone.

 

 

RECORDINGS AS PERFORMER (in addition to those listed above)

Heartlands, Tony Trischka. L.P. recording. Rounder, 1975.

All Old Friends, Stacy Phillips. L.P. recording. Revonah, 1975.

Light our Way Along the Highway, Bottle Hill. L.P. recording. Biograph, 1976.

Litany of Tides (Henry Brant), the San Jose Symphony Orchestra. Sonic Arts Corporation, 1983.