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Composer David LiptakBIOGRAPHYDavid Liptak was born in 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His music has been performed by such ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Youngstown Symphony, the Sinfonia da Camera of Illinois, the New England Philharmonic, the National Orchestral Association, the Group for Contemporary Music, EARPLAY, the Ying and Cassatt Quartets, the Dinosaur Annex Ensemble, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman Musica Nova, the 20th Century Consort, the Society for New Music in Syracuse, the new music group Thamyris, the Raphael Trio, and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble; the wind ensembles of Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Northwestern University, and Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester; and by many soloists and chamber ensembles. His principal publisher is MMB Music.His composition awards include prizes in the 1986 Georges Enesco International Composition Competition and the 1978 Minnesota Orchestra 75th Anniversary Composers Competition, and he was a finalist in the 1982 St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition and the 1989 Sudler International Competition for Wind Ensemble Composition. In 1991 he received a commission from the Syracuse Society for New Music for an instrumental work titled Rhapsodies that was funded through the Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Consortium Commissioning Program; the Society for New Music has also recorded Rhapsodies on compact disc. Four of Liptak's works are found on a 2005 Bridge Records CD of his music; these pieces are Broken Cries, Ancient Songs, Forlane, and Sernade for Alto Saxophone and Strings. Other recordings of David Liptak's music include those from Albany Records featuring music written for violinist Catherine Tait and, with musicians from the Eastman School in collaboration with those from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, his chamber piece Giovine vagha. In 1994, he received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation for a trumpet concerto for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, which was premiered in 1996 with soloist Paul Merkelo. Among his recent work is The Passing of Memory for composer Steven Stucky and Ensemble X, a chamber opera titled The Moon Singer, which was premiered at the Brevard Music Festival in the summer of 1998, and his String Quartet No. 2, written for the Cassatt Quartet and premiered by the ensemble in Philadelphia in 2003. In 1995 Liptak was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize, given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of distinguished achievement in the field of chamber music composition. Other recent honors include awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, both in 2002. In 1987 he was appointed to the composition faculty of the Eastman School of Music, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Composition. |
