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.

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    59 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Jody Rockmaker HEROIC QUEST Brass Quintet
    Jody Rockmaker Interchangeable Parts 2.2.2.2 2.4.3.1 TIMPANI, 2 PERCUSSION, STRINGS
    Jody Rockmaker Klezmer-clysmic Alto Sax OR Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
    Jody Rockmaker Kokopelli Dreams FLUTE, OBOE, Bb-CLARINET, HORN, BASSOON
    Jody Rockmaker Let America Be America Again Baritone and Piano
    Jody Rockmaker LIFE IS FINE
    TTBB men’s chorus a cappella
    Jody Rockmaker MAGICAL PLACE OF MY DREAMS
    2cl
    Jody Rockmaker MARSYAS
    oboe, harp
    Jody Rockmaker Mood Swing gtr
    Jody Rockmaker Multiplicities Clarinet
    Jody Rockmaker MURMURATIONS 4 or More Clarinets
    Jody Rockmaker Odd Combinations Two Keyboard Instruments
    Jody Rockmaker On one's own, together At Least 2 Percussionists
    Jody Rockmaker PASSION STRINGS Viola and Cello
    Jody Rockmaker Quarter for Twelve fl,ob,cl,bs.cl,bsn,hn,perc,2vln,vla,vcl,cb
    Jody Rockmaker ROTHKO LANDSCAPES
    2cl in Bb, 2cl in A
    Jody Rockmaker Saraswati Violoncello Solo and Violin Ensemble (4 Parts)
    Jody Rockmaker Shared Experiences Two or More Instruments
    Jody Rockmaker Shifty Business BASS CLARINET, MARIMBA
    Jody Rockmaker Shifty Canons Two or More Melodic Instruments
    Jody Rockmaker Shlof, Meyn Kind SATB
    Jody Rockmaker SONG OF SONGS
    S, T, cham orch: fl, cl, vln, vc, 2perc
    Jody Rockmaker Sounds of Hooma
    orchestral bells, flute, violin, bass drum, bass clarinet
    Jody Rockmaker South Mountain Sunset Viola and Piano
    Jody Rockmaker SPACE(S)
    cl, vln, vla

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