James Grant, DMA
Composer-in-Residence, Bay-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra
11 Henlopen Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971 
ph/fax: (302) 227-7396
jim@jamesgrantmusic.com      www.JamesGrantMusic.com

EDUCATION

1984-88 
DMA in Composition, Cornell University

1980-82 
MA in Composition and Theory, University of Iowa

1974-76 
BA in Composition and Choral Conducting, Hampshire College

POSITIONS HELD

1999-(03) 
Composer-In-Residence, Bay-Atlantic Symphony, NJ

1996-99 
Composer-In-Residence, Institute for the Environment Through the Arts, RI

1993-96 
Composer-In-Residence, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, VA

1988-92 
Assistant Professor of Music, Middlebury College, VT

APPEARANCES AS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
featured composition (* = commissioned work)

2002
Midwest Conductor's Conference
Tribute for orchestra

Hoff-Barthelson Music School (Scarsdale, New York)
Entr'acte!*

Bay-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (Pomona, NJ; Cumberland, NJ)
Tribute for orchestra

Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra (Interlochen, MI)
Tribute for orchestra

Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra (Gadsden, AL)
Tribute for orchestra*

Vermont Youth Symphony (Burlington, VT)
House of Mirrors

2001 
Bay-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (Pomona, NJ; Cumberland, NJ)
Torch for viola and string orchestra*

Alabama All-State Festival Orchestra (Tuscaloosa, AL)
House of Mirrors*

Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (Baltimore, MD)
Symphonic Poem No. 1: Release*

Bay-Atlantic Symphony (Pomona, NJ; Cumberland, NJ)
Symphonic Poem No. 1: Release*

1999 
Alexandria Choral Society (Washington DC)
Songs of Mystical Love*

Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra (Gadsden, AL)
Chocolates for Clarinet and Orchestra*

Lawrence Chamber Orchestra (Lawrence, KS)
Chocolates for Viola and Orchestra

National Ballet of New Jersey (Mt. Laurel, NJ)
Chart, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra 
choreographed for original ballet, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon."

1998 
Indiana State University Festival of New Music (Terre Haute, IN)
Chart - Overture for Orchestra

Goucher Chamber Symphony (Baltimore, MD)
Suite for Viola and String Orchestra*

1997 
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (Baltimore, MD)
Suite for Viola and String Orchestra*

Kansas City Chamber Orchestra (Kansas City, MO)
Suite for Viola and String Orchestra*

Lawrence Chamber Orchestra (Lawrence, KS)
Suite for Viola and String Orchestra*

University of Kansas Department of Music
one-week residency of lectures, private lessons, seminars

Virginia Chamber Orchestra and Alexandria Choral Society (Washington, DC)
Listen to the Earth* (choral symphony)

St. Paul’s School Choirs (Baltimore, MD)
Rejoice and Give Thanks!* (for dedication of new chapel)

1995 
Muncie Symphony Orchestra (Muncie, IN)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra*

Ball State University Department of Music (Muncie, IN)
private lessons, master class in composition

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (Fairfax, VA)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra*

Frederick Symphony Orchestra (Frederick, MD)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra*

University of Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Burlington, VT)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra*

Goucher Chamber Symphony (Towson, MD)
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra*

1994 
Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble (Burlington, VT)
A Change of Season* (song cycle)

1992 
Old St. Paul’s Church Choir of Men and Boys (Baltimore, MD)
I Look From Afar* (for dedication of carillon)

VT Council on the Arts Retreat (Killington, VT)
composition master class

Des Moines Symphony Orchestra (Des Moines, IA)
Lament for String Orchestra

Concord Community Music School (Concord, NH)
Two Songs and Four Quips

1991 
New Orchestra of Boston (Middlebury, VT)
Lament for String Orchestra*

Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Burlington, VT)
Concerto Fantasy for Percussion and Orchestra*

Sage City Symphony Orchestra (Bennington, VT)
Weird Magic!*

State University of New York (Plattsburgh, NY)
Three Virtuosic Studies for Piano

1990 
University of Michigan Chamber Choir (Ann Arbor, MI)
Two Psalms*

Sage City Symphony (Bennington, VT)
Weird Magic!*

1989 
Symposium For New Music For Woodwind Quintet, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Quintet 1989

AWARDS

2001 
Aaron Copland Award

1998 
First Prize, Louisville Symphony Orchestra and Indiana State University competition for new orchestral music, for Chart — Overture for Orchestra; performed by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra at the Indiana State University New Music Festival, October 1998

1995-2001 
ASCAP standard awards

1989 
Vermont Composer of the Year: Presented by the Vermont State Music Teachers Association

Vermont Council on the Arts Fellowship: $3500 cash award to fund work with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble

1988 
First Prize, Chautauqua Chamber Singers (NY) international choral composition competition

Humanities and Arts Graduate Student Teacher of the Year Award, Cornell University (first in history of the music department to receive the award)

1985 
First Prize, South Coast Choral Society (CA) international choral composition competition

1982 
First Prize, Washington Cathedral Choral Society international choral composition competition

RADIO BROADCASTS

2002
Featured composer on Kalvos' and Damian's New Music Bazaar; Waterbury, VT
Interview on Interlochen Public Radio, Interlochen, MI
Interview on Vermont Public Radio, Burlington, VT

2001
Featured guest on Arts Across DelMarVa, Maryland Public Radio

1995 
Indiana Public Radio: live interview and recorded performance of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, performed by the Muncie Symphony Orchestra

1992 
Iowa Public Radio: taped interview and recorded performance of Lament for String Orchestra, performed by the Des Moines Symphony

1990 
Vermont Public Radio: Toccata for Piano, performed by Michael Arnowitt

1987 
Washington (DC) Public Radio: Suite for Piano, performed live from the National Gallery, Jeffrey Chappell, piano

RECENT (and upcoming) RECORDINGS

(2003) 
Waltz for Betz, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; ABC Classics

(2003) 
Stuff and Other Music, Dennis AsKew, tuba; University of North Carolina at Greensboro (will feature four compositions for intermediate level tuba)

(2003) 
Kenyon Wilson, tuba; Valdosta State University (will feature four composition for intermediate level tuba)

2002
Recitative & Frenzy; Ragamuffins;  William Helmers, clarinet, on his CD "Recitative & Frenzy;"
Equilibrium - EQ52

1998 
Chart—Overture for Orchestra; Lament for String Orchestra; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra (Grantwood Music Press)

1997 
Quintet for Brass, University of Iowa Brass Quintet, on "Americana: A University of Iowa Celebration" (University of Iowa Recordings)

1996 
Three Furies for Solo Tuba, Mark Nelson, tuba, on "Aboriginal Voices" (Good VIbrations)

1995 
A Change of Season, song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble, Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Kate Tamarkin, conductor (VCME-01)

1990 
Toccata for Piano, Michael Arnowitt, piano, on "Alive and Well," Ursa Minor Records

RECENT (and upcoming) COMMISSIONED WORKS

Orchestral

(2005) 
Title:   untitled
Instr:   concerto for clarinet and orchestra
commissioned by a consortium of clarinetists and orchestras
[projected ca. 18 min]

(2004) 
Title:   Concerto for Orchestra
Instr:   large orchestra
commissioned by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony
[projected ca. 18 min]

(2003) 
Title:   untitled
Instr:   concerto for saxophone and orchestra
commissioned by virtuoso saxophonist David Stambler
[projected ca. 16 min]

(2003)
Title:   Such Was The War 
Instr:   baritone solo, chorus and large orchestra
commissioned by the Choral Arts Society of Washington (DC) 
ca. 40 min

2002
Title:   Tribute for Orchestra
Instr:   orchestra
commissioned by the Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra (AL) 
10 min

2001 
Title:   Symphonic Poem No. 1: Release
Instr:   large orchestra
joint commission: Bay-Atlantic Symphony (NJ); Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (MD) 
19 min

Title:   House of Mirrors
Instr:   orchestra
commissioned by the Alabama Orchestra Association for the 2001 Alabama All-State Festival
7 min

2000 
Title:   Waltz for Betz
Instr:   alto saxophone (or viola) and string orchestra
commissioned by the Bay-Atlantic Symphony (NJ) 
5 min

1999 
Title:   Chocolates for Clarinet and Orchestra
Instr:   clarinet and orchestra
commissioned by the Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra (AL) 
15 min

1998 
Title:   Outside Suite
Instr:   intermediate-level string orchestra
commissioned by the Institute for the Environment Through the Arts
10 min

1997 
Title:   Torch for Viola and String Orchestra
Instr:   viola and string orchestra
commissioned by a consortium of four orchestras: Kansas City Chamber Orchestra (MO), Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (MD), Goucher Chamber Symphony (MD), Lawrence Chamber Players (KS) 
13 min

1996 
Title:   Listen to the Earth: Three Urgent Supplications for Chorus and Orchestra 
Instr:   chorus and large orchestra
commissioned by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, with Reston Chorale, Alexandria Choral Society, Fairfax Choral Society (VA) 
25 min

1995 
Title:   Three Furies for Tuba and Orchestra
Instr:   tuba and orchestra
commissioned by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (VA) 
16 min

1994 
Title:   Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Instr:   piano and orchestra
commissioned by a consortium of six orchestras: Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (VA), Muncie Symphony Orchestra (IN), University of Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Goucher Chamber Symphony (MD), Frederick Symphony Orchestra (MD), Missouri Symphony Society (MO) 
43 min

1993 
Title:   Chart: Overture for Orchestra
Instr:   orchestra
commissioned by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (VA) 
7 min

1992 
Title:   Lament for String Orchestra
Instr:   string orchestra
commissioned by the New Orchestra of Boston (MA) 
10 min

1991 
Title:   Concerto Fantasy for Percussion and Orchestra
Instr:   solo percussion playing timpani, vibraphone and drum set, with orchestra
commissioned by the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VT) 
25 min

1990 
Title:   Weird Magic!
Instr:   orchestra with narrator, for children’s concert
commissioned by the Sage City Symphony Orchestra (VT) 
20 min

1988 
Title:   Theme Stream: Concerto Fantasy for Piano, Winds and Percussion
Instr:   solo piano with wind ensemble
commissioned by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble (NY) 
20 min

Chamber, Choral and Solo

2002
Title:   Entr'acte!
Instr:   cl, vln, vc, pno
commissioned by Hoff-Barthelson Music School (Scarsdale, NY)

2001
Title:   Stuff; Just A Thought; High Autumn; and Endorphins
Instr:   tuba and piano
commissioned by a consortium of 78 tubists in the United States, Canada, and Japan

2001 
Title:   This
Instr:   piano solo
commissioned by Jeffrey Chappell (Washington DC) 
11 min

2000
Title:   Truffles 
Instr:   viola and piano
commissioned by Michelle LaCourse, viola (MA) 
10 min

Title:   Waltz for Betz
Instr:   viola and piano
commissioned by Michelle LaCourse, viola (MA) 
5 min

Title:   Sultry and Eccentric
Instr:   tuba and piano
commissioned by a consortium of 50 tubists 
10 min

1999 
Title:   Songs of Mystical Love
Instr:   a cappella SSATTB
commissioned by the Alexandria (VA) Choral Society for its 20th Anniversary Gala Kennedy Center Concert 
9 min

1998 
Title:   Chocolates
Instr:   viola and piano
commissioned by Michelle LaCourse, viola (MA) 
16 min

1997 
Title:   Rejoice and Give Thanks
Instr:   SATB, organ, handbells
commissioned by St. Paul’s School, Baltimore (MD) 
10 min

1995 
Title:   Quintet for Brass
Instr:   2 tpts, hn. tbn. tba
commissioned by a consortium of three brass quintets: the Millikin University Brass Quintet (IL), the Iowa Brass Quintet (IA), and the Constitution Brass Quintet (VT) 
13 min

1995 
Title:   BLAZE!
Instr:   orchestral brass, timpani and percussion
commissioned by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestral Brass (VA) 
2 min

1993 
Title:   Three Furies for Solo Tuba
Instr:   tuba solo
commissioned by Mark Nelson (AZ) for Japan tour 
12 min

Title:   Recitative & Frenzy for Soprano Saxophone (Clarinet) and Piano
Instr:   soprano saxophone or clarinet and piano
commissioned by Steven Stusek, saxophone (VT) 
15 min

Title:   Jubilate
Instr:   SATB, organ
commissioned by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winter Haven (FL) 
4 min

1992 
Title:   I Look From Afar
Instr:   SATB, carillon, organ
commissioned by Old St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore (MD)
12 min

Title:   Two Songs and Four Quips
Instr:   SATB, pno
commissioned by the Concord (NH) Community Music School 
12 min

Title:   2Piano Music for Dance
Instr:   two pianos
commissioned by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Burlington (VT) 
12 min

1991 
Title:   Convocation for Organ
Instr:   solo organ
commissioned by Rodney Hansen, Old St. Paul’s Church, Baltimore (MD) 
5 min

1990 
Title:   Ragamuffins
Instr:   alto sax, clarinet
commissioned by Steven Stusek and Jerry McBride, Middlebury College (VT) 
3 min

Title:   Two Psalms
Instr:   SATB, pno
commissioned by the University of Michigan Chamber Choir (MI) 
13 min

1989 
Title:   Quintet 1989
Instr:   fl, ob, cl, hn, bn
commissioned by the Quintette à vent, Burlington (VT) 
16 min

Title:   A Change of Season (song cycle)
Instr:   soprano, cl, vn, vc, perc, pno
commissioned by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Burlington (VT) 
35 min

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