"Rockmaker's writing is both traditionally disciplined and unexpectedly inventive..." -New Music Connoisseur
Jody Rockmaker (born 1961, New York City) received his Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University. He has studied at the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His principal teachers have been Erich Urbanner, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt, Claudio Spies, Malcolm Peyton and Miriam Gideon.
Dr. Rockmaker is the recipient of numerous awards including a Barlow Endowment Commission, Fulbright Grant, two BMI Awards for Young Composers, an ASCAP Grant, the George Whitefield Chadwick Medal from New England Conservatory, and a National Orchestral Association Orchestral Reading Fellowship. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Villa Montalvo, and has been a Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. He taught at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University School of Music.
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| Jody Rockmaker | Why Can't the Sky Be Pink | String Orchestra
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| Jody Rockmaker | Shared Experiences | Two or More Instruments
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| Jody Rockmaker | Shifty Canons | Two or More Melodic Instruments
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| Jody Rockmaker | Anyone Can Play | Any Four Melodic Instruments
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| Jody Rockmaker | Odd Combinations | Two Keyboard Instruments
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| Jody Rockmaker | Crossing Paths | Two Clarinets (or Bass Clarinets)
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| Jody Rockmaker | On one's own, together | At Least 2 Percussionists
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| Jody Rockmaker | Let America Be America Again | Baritone and Piano
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| Jody Rockmaker | Blue Oblivion | 3 Pianos, Celesta, and 6 Percussion
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| Jody Rockmaker | Saraswati | Violoncello Solo and Violin Ensemble (4 Parts)
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| Jody Rockmaker | Gestures | At least 4 players
Indeterminate instrumentation |
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| Jody Rockmaker | Klezmer-clysmic | Alto Sax OR Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
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| Jody Rockmaker | Desert Walk at Sunset | Chamber Orchestra
1111 - 0100 - Strings |
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| Jody Rockmaker | Flutesongs | Soprano and Flute
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| Jody Rockmaker | CHARACTER PIECES FOR VIOLA AND PIANO | Viola and Piano
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| Jody Rockmaker | EXPLOSION OF THE SENSES | saxophone ensemble SATB 3-3-3-3
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| Jody Rockmaker | BIG CATS | Electric Guitar, Cello, Horn, and Trombone
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| Jody Rockmaker | HEROIC QUEST | Brass Quintet
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| Jody Rockmaker | AND IN MY GARDEN | Sop, fl, cl, vib, vln, vcl, pf
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| Jody Rockmaker | MURMURATIONS | 4 or More Clarinets
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| Jody Rockmaker | Half and Half | Demi-Clarinet in A
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| Jody Rockmaker | GOIN' LIKE GANGBUSTERS | Cello and Piano
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| Jody Rockmaker | Sounds of Hooma |
orchestral bells, flute, violin, bass drum, bass clarinet |
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| Jody Rockmaker | MARSYAS |
oboe, harp |
