Elliott Schwartz

Biography
Elliott Schwartz was born 1936 in New York City and studied composition with Otto Luening and Jack Beeson at Columbia University. He retired from the faculty at Bowdoin College, where he served for 43 years, twelve of them as department chair. His many extended residencies and/or visiting professorships include Ohio State University, the University of California (San Diego and Santa Barbara), Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. Schwartz’s compositions have been performed by such groups as the Minnesota Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and the Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands and featured at numerous international music centers and festivals including Tanglewood, the Library of Congress, Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), DeIjsbreker (Amsterdam), Music of the Americas (London), and the European Youth Orchestra Festival (Copenhagen).

Leading orchestras and chamber ensembles have recorded his music for New World, CRI, Albany, Innova, Capstone and other labels. Honors and awards for his compositions include the Gaudeamus Foundation (Netherlands), the Rockefeller Foundation (two Bellagio residencies), and the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the course of his career he has served as president of The College Music Society, president of the Society of Composers, Inc, vice-president of the American Music Center, and board member of the American Composers Alliance.

Schwartz wrote or edited a number of books on musical subjects. These include Music: Ways of Listening, Electronic Music: A Listener’s Guide, Music since 1945 (co-author with Daniel Godfrey) and the anthology Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music (co-editor with Barney Childs). Schwartz’s 70th and 80th birthdays were celebrated with concerts and guest lectures at Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music (London), Butler University, Concordia College, the University of Minnesota, the ACA Festival (NYC) and the Library of Congress.  His music is published by ACA, Associated Music Publishers, and Lauren Keiser Music, and is preserved at archives including the Library of Congress and Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland. He passed away December 7, 2016 in Brunswick.

 

  • solo instrumental (non-keyboard)
  • ACE Publications

    11 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Elliott Schwartz BEGINNER'S LUCK solo gtr, with pre-recorded gtr
    Version II is guitar with added piano
    Elliott Schwartz EXTENDED OBOE ob,tape
    Elliott Schwartz HALO bcl
    Elliott Schwartz JEFFERSON CADENZA: SOLILOQUY AND REMEMBRANCE Violin
    Elliott Schwartz MIRRORS FOR BARNEY & ARNEY cl, self-prepared tp(or 2cl)
    Elliott Schwartz MUSIC FOR PRINCE ALBERT pf., 2 tapes, assistant
    Elliott Schwartz SOLILOQUY I FOR SOLO TRUMPET Trumpet
    Elliott Schwartz SOLILOQUY II FOR SOLO CLARINET Clarinet
    Elliott Schwartz SOLILOQUY III solo flute, doubling piccolo and alto flute
    Elliott Schwartz THREE INVENTIONS ON A NAME vla
    Elliott Schwartz ZIGGURAT flute (with self generated audio track made by performer)

    Additional Works

    Lauren Keiser Music

    Divertimento No. 4
    Suite for Viola and Piano
    Chamber Concerto 1
    Chamber Concerto 3
    Quartet for oboe and strings
    Three Movements for Brass Quintet
    Octagon
    Fantastic Prisms
    Four Maine Haiku (Maine Haiku)
     

    Carl Fischer

    Aria No. 2 for violin and drum