Jeff Myers
Alumni
BM, San Jose State University

Contact: www.jeffmyers.info


Jeff Myers (b.1977) is currently pursuing a Master's degree at the Eastman School of Music. He has studied composition with Daniel Godfrey, David Liptak, Dan Wyman, Allen Strange and Brian Belet. His music has been performed throughout the United States in concert halls, universities and on various radio programs. He has received awards from ASCAP and BMI, a Yvar Mikhashoff Grant for New Music, a Hanson Orchestral Prize and various other honors. He has participated in summer courses with Leslie Bassett and William Kraft, been an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts where he worked with Bright Sheng, and will be a Tanglewood Fellow during the summer of 2002 where he will work with Steve Mackey. Jeff's Five Parametric Etudes for Disklavier have recently been released on a CD of modern works put out by Capstone Records. His orchestration of Schoenberg's Six Little Piano Pieces, Op.19, is available through Belmont Music Publishers.

List of Works

• Gestations II for CD playback (6')
• Rondeaux arr. for quintet (fl,cl,pf,vn,vc) (11')
• Rondeaux for viola da gamba and harpsichord (11')
• Gestations I for CD playback (4')
• Moment(s) for woodwind quartet (14')
• Metamorphosis for violin and orchestra (19')
• Elegy for trio (vn,pf,perc) (6')
• Super Fantasy for octet (fl,cl,t.sax,perc,pf,vn,vc,cb) (7')
• Chasing Pisces for chamber orchestra (5')
• Santo Rosario for SATB soloists, 2 reciters, & chamber orchestra (20')
• Raised by Wolves for octet (fl,b.cl,tpt,perc,timp,pf,vn,vc) (10')
• Capriccio for flute (7')
• Three Episodes for chamber orchestra (15')
• Interference for violin and piano (10')
• Images for cello and piano (10')
• Psychosis for piano trio (15')
• Five Parametric Etudes for Disklavier (9')
  
  Performances
Images (for cello and piano)

• 1997 SCI Region VII Conference - Cal State Fresno - November 7-9, 1997
  

Interference (for violin and piano)

• Imagine 2000 Festival - University of Memphis - February 25, 2000
• SCI Student Conference "March Madness" - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. - March 17-18, 2000
• 2000 SCI Region VI Conference - Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. - March 30-Apr.1, 2000
  

Five Parametric Etudes (for Disklavier)

• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. - November 7, 1998
• Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN. - November 12, 1998

• 1998 BMI Student Composer Award: Five Parametric Etudes (for Disklavier)
  
• 1999 Eva Thompson Award in Music Composition