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