Jody Rockmaker

Biography

"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.

  • ACE Publications

    59 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Jody Rockmaker AFTER THE DAZZLE OF DAY Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet, Horn, and Piano
    Jody Rockmaker AND IN MY GARDEN Sop, fl, cl, vib, vln, vcl, pf
    Jody Rockmaker Anyone Can Play Any Four Melodic Instruments
    Jody Rockmaker BIG CATS Electric Guitar, Cello, Horn, and Trombone
    Jody Rockmaker Blue Oblivion 3 Pianos, Celesta, and 6 Percussion
    Jody Rockmaker Bottom Dog Two Bass Clarinets and Contrabass Clarinet
    Jody Rockmaker CHARACTER PIECES FOR VIOLA AND PIANO Viola and Piano
    Jody Rockmaker CHATTERBOXES for Wind Ensemble wind ens: 3/pic-2-eh-2-bcl-1-cbsn; 4-3-2-btbn-1; timp, 2perc
    3 flute (III double on piccolo), 2 ob, E hrn, 2 cl, bs cl, 2 bsn, cnt bsn, 4 hrn, 3 tpt, 2 tbn, bs tbn, tba, timp, 2 perc.
    Jody Rockmaker CHILD'S PLAY for string quartet str 4tet: 2-1-1
    2 violins, viola, violoncello
    Jody Rockmaker Child's Question SATB
    Jody Rockmaker Crossing Paths Two Clarinets (or Bass Clarinets)
    Jody Rockmaker DER HEYSER BULGER for Klezmer Band
    Klezmer band: fl, cl, tpt, bar, tbn, tba, perc, pf, gtr, mand, 2vln
    Jody Rockmaker Desert Walk at Sunset Chamber Orchestra
    1111 - 0100 - Strings
    Jody Rockmaker Earth Spirits Violin and Viola
    Jody Rockmaker EGRET IN THE LIVING ROOM Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello
    Jody Rockmaker EQUAL PARTNERS
    vl, pno
    Jody Rockmaker EXPLOSION OF THE SENSES saxophone ensemble SATB 3-3-3-3
    Jody Rockmaker Eyes of an Abinhaya Dancer, The fl, cl, vln, vcl
    Jody Rockmaker Flutesongs Soprano and Flute
    Jody Rockmaker FOUR SQUARE piano 4 hands
    Jody Rockmaker FRANTIC ANTICS for guitar and violin
    gtr, vln
    Jody Rockmaker Gestures At least 4 players
    Indeterminate instrumentation
    Jody Rockmaker GIZMO Percussion Solo
    Jody Rockmaker GOIN' LIKE GANGBUSTERS Cello and Piano
    Jody Rockmaker Half and Half Demi-Clarinet in A

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