David Jacobsen

(U.S.A)


David Jacobsen a choisi d'interpréter:
David Jacobsen has chosen to perform:
Frank Ticheli

Songs of Tagore

Nightfall
Light
Departure
Kent Holliday

Reed *

avec la collaboration de:

with the participation of:

Nancy McDuffie, soprano

Kent Holliday, piano

* Création / World premiere
David Jacobsen earned degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Northwestern University and the University of Illinois. He teaches flute, saxophone and chamber music at Virginia Tech.

Soprano Nancy McDuffie holds degrees from East Carolina University and the State University of New YorkFredonia, and teaches on the music faculty of Virginia Tech.

Kent Holliday (b.1940), DMA in composition from the University of Minnesota, teaches composition and piano at Virginia Tech.

Frank Ticheli (b. 1958) holds a DMA in composition from the University of Michigan, and studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett and William Bolcom. He is currently on the faculty at the University of Southern California. The text for Songs of Tagore comes from Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjuli (Song Offerings) Written in India about 1910 and introduced to the west in 1912, these poems experienced a resurgence of popularity in the 1960s.

Kent Holliday (b.1940), DMA in composition from the University of Minnesota, teaches composition and piano at Virginia Tech. His Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, written for David Jacobsen and Caryl Conger, was performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Morgantown,West Virginia in 1994. The work presented here was written especially for this World Saxophone Congress at the request of David Jacobsen.

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