Howard Sandroff

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American composer, sound artist, sculptor, and music educator (born 1949)

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Howard Sandroff (born October 28, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer, sound artist, sculptor, and music educator.

Sandroff studied at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His composition instructors included Robert Lombardo and Ben Johnston. He has received composition and research fellowships and the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Chicago and the Yamaha Music Foundation. He founded, directed and conducted Chicago's New Art Ensemble. In 2016, Sandroff retired from the University of Chicago where he was Director of the Computer Music Studio and Senior Lecturer in Music. He is also a professor emeritus of Audio Arts & Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago.

In June 1996, Pierre Boulez invited Sandroff to attend the dedication of the new IRCAM facility at the Centre Georges Pompidou. His composition Tephillah, for clarinet and computer, was performed at the dedication by Alain Damiens, clarinetist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Sandroff has collaborated with clarinetist John Bruce Yeh, performing Boulez's 1985 work for clarinet and electronics, Dialogue de l'ombre double.

Among Sandroff's compositions are works for solo instruments, chamber music ensembles, and orchestra, often incorporating live or recorded electronic music. His works have been performed throughout the world in concerts and festivals such as New Music America, Aspen Music Festival, New Music Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution, and the World Saxophone Congress.

Works

  • La Joie (The Joy) for clarinet trio, 1996
  • Chant de femme, for flutes and electronic sounds, 1996
  • Chorale for saxophone quartet, 1994
  • Tephilla for clarinet and computer controlled audio processors, 1990
  • Eulogy for alto saxophone, 1989
  • Concerto for Electronic Wind Instrument and String Orchestra, 1988
  • The Bride's Complaint for soprano and computer generated electronics, 1987
  • Adagio for piano, 1985
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, 1983
  • ...there is a decided lack of enthusiasm at my end of the leash. for two pianos and electronic sounds on tape, 1981

References

References

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  5. Wolf, Robert. (May 9, 1986). "Composer Artfully Mixes A Symphony Of Electronic Sound". Chicago Tribune.
  6. (October 19, 2013). "Howard Sandroff". University of Chicago.
  7. Tobiska, Julia. (October 18, 2012). "Alumnus and composer Ben Sutherland is nostalgic for The Reg". Tout de Suite: University of Chicago Department of Music blog.
  8. "Computer Music Studio". University of Chicago Department of Music.
  9. "Departments » Audio Arts & Acoustics". Columbia College Chicago.
  10. Diedrich, Norah. (March 25, 2014). "Howard Sandroff Presents a Multisensory Lecture, The Obsessive Image". Evanson Art Center.
  11. "Double Dialogue". University of Chicago.
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  13. "Howard Sandroff: Works for Ensembles". University of Chicago.
  14. "Howard Sandroff: Works for Orchestra". University of Chicago.
  15. Kim-Boyle, David. "International Computer Music Conference 2003: Boundaryless Music". Computer Music Journal.
  16. (May 15, 2009). "Tephillah – Howard Sandroff – arr. Geoff Deibel". Geoffrey Deibel.

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