Bruce MacCombie (1943 in
Providence, Rhode Island
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– May 2, 2012, in
Amherst, Massachusetts
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) was an American composer.
He studied at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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and
Freiburg Conservatory
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, and holds a Ph.D. in music from the
University of Iowa
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.
He was appointed to the music faculty of
Yale University
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in 1975, and one year later joined the composition faculty of the
Yale School of Music.
MacCombie was Director of Publications for G. Schirmer and Associated Music Publishers from 1980 to 1986), Dean of the
Juilliard School
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from 1986 to 1992 and Dean of the School for the Arts at
Boston University
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from 1992 to 2001. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Music at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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at
Amherst Amherst may refer to:
People
* Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst''
* Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, ...
.
His compositions include ''Nightshade Rounds'' (1979) for solo
guitar
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(written for
Sharon Isbin
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In English-speaking areas, Sharon is now predominantly a feminine given name. However, historically it was also used as a masculine given name. In I ...
), ''Leaden Echo, Golden Echo'' (1989) for
soprano
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and
orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
, the set of
choral
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pieces ''Color and Time'' (1990), ''Chelsea Tango'' (1991) for orchestra, and the quintet ''Greeting'' (1993) (written for
Krzysztof Penderecki's 60th birthday).
MacCombie was named Executive Director of
Jazz at Lincoln Center
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in 2001. He was succeeded by
Derek Gordon in 2004.
References
External links
Profileat
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...
Five Colleges New Music Festival profileSchott Music profile
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1943 births
2012 deaths
20th-century classical composers
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American male classical composers
American classical composers
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg alumni
21st-century American composers
20th-century American composers
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21st-century American male musicians