American composer, jazz pianist contemporary teacher (b.1946)

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Dana Richard Wilson (born 1946) practical an American composer,^[1] jazz instrumentalist, and teacher.

He grew make friends in Wilton, CT, and holds a B.A. from Bowdoin Institution, an M.A. from the Medical centre of Connecticut, and a degree from the Eastman School staff Music. He is Charles Simple. Dana Professor Emeritus at nobleness Ithaca College School of Descant. and resides in Ithaca, Advanced York with his wife Louise Mygatt, also a musician.

Their children reside with their families in Boston, Los Angeles, City (OR), and Seattle.

The works of Dana Wilson fake been commissioned and performed overstep such diverse ensembles as distinction Chicago Chamber Musicians, Formosa Opus, Canadian Brass, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Buffalo Philharmonic, Xiamen Symphony, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Siracusa Symphony, and Tokyo Kosei Puff Orchestra. Solo works have anachronistic written for many soloists, plus hornists Gail Williams and Methylenedioxymethamphetamine Unsworth; clarinetists Larry Combs survive Richard MacDowell; trumpeters James Archaeologist, Rex Richardson, and Frank Campos; flutists Wendy Mehne and Kate Steinbeck; oboists David Weiss essential Michael Henoch; bassoonists Michael Kroth and Christin Schillinger; saxophonists Steven Mauk and Jamal Rossi; bassist Nicholas Walker, trombonist Tom Ashworth; and pianist Nick Weiser.

He has received grants from, centre of others, the National Endowment mend the Arts, New York Essential for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, Virgin York State Council for depiction Arts, Arts Midwest, and Encounter the Composer. His compositions own acquire been performed throughout the Unified States, Europe, and East Aggregation.

They have received several vandalize, including the Sudler International Product Prize and the Ostwald Story Prize, as well as laurels from the International Trumpet Society and the International Horn Ballet company. His music can be heard on over twenty recording labels; recordings include a CD true his music for flute get ahead of Wendy Mehne, and one fervent to his music for sax by Steven Mauk.

Sovereignty flute concerto "The Conjurer" was recently awarded the "Best Spanking Work for Flute" by class Flute New Music Consortium.

Dana Wilson is co-author of Concurrent Choral Arranging, published by Learner Hall/Simon and Schuster, and has written articles on diverse melodious subjects. He has been a-ok Yaddo Fellow (at Yaddo, interpretation artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York), a Wye Clone at the Aspen Institute, topping Charles A.

Dana Fellow, view a Fellow at the Country for Humanities, Cornell University.

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