American composer Albert
Glinsky has received critical praise for his music, which has
been performed
widely, and in such settings as the Aspen Music Festival, Lincoln
Center,
Kennedy Center, Wolf Trapp, and in England, France, Belgium,
Germany, Denmark,
Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the Far East. Performing
organizations as
diverse as the Boys Choir of Harlem and the Zurich Chamber
Orchestra have
premiered his works. Dance has played a large role in Glinsky's
musical output.
His works have been presented at the Lexington and Wilkes-Barre
Ballets,
the Merce Cunningham Dance Theatre, Les Grandes Ballets
Canadiennes, Marin
Ballet and at universities around the country. The Joffrey II
Company presented
a three-season international tour of his ballet Flights, which was
subsequently
filmed for cable television.
Among the awards Glinsky has
received are grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the
American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the Smithsonian Institution, the
Jerome Foundation,
the New York State Council on the Arts, Music at La Gesse
Foundation, the
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts, Meet
the Composer, the American Music Center, the Haydn Foundation, and
New York
State CAPS (Fellowship). In 1987 he joined the artist roster of
the Astral
Foundation which awarded him a major career grant, and later, a
consortium
commision for his piano concerto. Among the prizes Glinsky has
received are
two awards at the Alienor International Competition in Washington
D.C., and
a prize in the Composers Guild Choral Competition. In 1987 he was a
Ucross
Foundation resident artist in Wyoming. Recent performances and
commissions
have been presented by the Cavani String Quartet, Relache,
Concerto Soloists
of Philadelphia, and the Erie Philharmonic, and with conductors
Walter Hendl,
Eiji Oue and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. His music is recorded on the BMG
Catalyst,
Centaur, and Leonore labels. Currently, Glinsky is at work on a
clarinet
concerto for Richard Stoltzman to be recorded on a CD with the
Warsaw
Philharmonic.
Glinsky is the author of Theremin:
Ether Music and Espionage, published by the University of
Illinois Press,
with a foreword by Robert Moog. Theremin won the prestigious
ASCAP-Deems
Taylor Award in 2001 and received worldwide press acclaim. A gifted
lecturer,
Glinsky has delivered his multimedia "Termen-ology" presentation
(on the
life of Leon Theremin) across the US and in Europe. He has also
given workshops
at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and was chosen to
participate
in the 2002-2003 Pennsylvania Humanities Council's Commonwealth
Speakers
Program. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the
A&E Network,
various National Public Radio programs, and on Canada's CBC network
and England's
BBC Radio.
Glinsky has served on the faculty of
Montclair
State College, and was BMI Composer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt
University.
Currently he is Professor of Music at Mercyhurst College in
Pennsylvania.
Born in New York City, Albert Glinsky studied composition
principally with
Joan Tower and David Diamond. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music
degrees
from the Juilliard School, and a Ph.D. from New York University. He
is a
member of American Composers Alliance, and Broadcast Music Inc.
(BMI). His
music includes vocal, chamber, solo, and symphonic works, and is
published
by E. C. Schirmer, Hinshaw Press, and C.F. Peters.
