Richard Festinger
American composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Festinger is an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and educator. Biography Festinger was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding director of Earplay, a new chamber music ensemble based in the Bay Area. He has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation, Cité internationale des arts in Paris, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the Ligurian Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Almeria, Spain, Ucross Foundation Centre International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets, the Aaron Copland House, the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation in 2003 to compose his work Hidden Spring for the Cygnus Ensemble. Also in 2003 Works and Process at the Guggenheim commissioned and premiered his settings of poet/author Denis Johnson, The Coming of Age with Amy Burton, soprano and The Group for Contemporary Music conducted by Bradley Lubman. In 2009 pianist Marilyn Nonken toured with Festinger's large scale piano solo, Le Pianiste.
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- Retrospections on Social Psychology (1980) (126)
- Impromptu for B-Flat Clarinet and Piano@@@Souvenir for Clarinet and Piano (1978) (1993) (0)
- San Jose State University (SJSU) School of Music Autumn Concert (1996) (0)
- At Recess, We Play: [For] Chamber Ensemble@@@Lady Mondegreen's Dances: [For] Flute (Alto Flute), Clarinet (Bass Clarinet), Violin, Violoncello, Percussion, and Piano@@@A Serenade for Six: [For] Flute, Clarinet (Bass Clarinet), Violin, Violoncello, Percussion, and Piano@@@Dream Sequence: [For] Chambe (1997) (0)
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