Salvatore Macchia
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Salvatore Macchia is an American
composer
of contemporary classical music
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In a career spanning 35 years, Macchia has created over 140 works. His catalog contains music in virtually every genre, including fifteen large orchestral works, an oboe concerto, 4 chamber concertos, a cantata and a ballet, as well as four chamber operas. In addition there is a large amount of solo and chamber music comprising six string quartets, a piano quartet, a substantial repertoire of music for diverse small ensembles and an ongoing series of pieces for solo instruments and tape. His works have been performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Russia and Japan.
As a contrabassist he has performed in the European and jazz traditions throughout America and Europe and has premiered nearly 100 compositions featuring the contrabass.
He has recorded with, among others, Michael William Gilbert
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A 2006-2007 Samuel Conti Award fellowship winner, Salvatore Macchia is a professor of composition and contrabass at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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United States
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
of contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
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In a career spanning 35 years, Macchia has created over 140 works. His catalog contains music in virtually every genre, including fifteen large orchestral works, an oboe concerto, 4 chamber concertos, a cantata and a ballet, as well as four chamber operas. In addition there is a large amount of solo and chamber music comprising six string quartets, a piano quartet, a substantial repertoire of music for diverse small ensembles and an ongoing series of pieces for solo instruments and tape. His works have been performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Russia and Japan.
As a contrabassist he has performed in the European and jazz traditions throughout America and Europe and has premiered nearly 100 compositions featuring the contrabass.
He has recorded with, among others, Michael William Gilbert
Michael William Gilbert
Michael William Gilbert is an American music composer working in the genres of electronic music and world music.-Biography:Michael William Gilbert was raised in Connecticut and Brussels, where he first heard the music of Africa and East Asia, as well as the electronic music of Edgard Varèse and...
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A 2006-2007 Samuel Conti Award fellowship winner, Salvatore Macchia is a professor of composition and contrabass at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
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