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Jack Gallagher

http://www.jackgallaghermusic.com

JACK GALLAGHER is the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music at The College of Wooster, Ohio. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in composition from Cornell University and the bachelor's degree cum laude from Hofstra University. He studied composition with Elie Siegmeister, Robert Palmer and Burrill Phillips, participated in seminars with Karel Husa, Thea Musgrave and Ned Rorem, and in masterclasses with Aaron Copland and George Crumb.

In 2009 his Symphony in One Movement: Threnody, Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Diversions Overture, and Berceuse were recorded at Abbey Road Studios by the London Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta, conductor, for September 2010 release on Naxos 8.559652.

His works have been performed or recorded by the London Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Krakow, Kiev Philharmonic, Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra, Ruse Philharmonic Orchestra (Bulgaria), Utah Arts Festival Orchestra, U.S. Air Force Band of Flight, Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Symphony, Gregg Smith Singers, Indiana University Wind Ensemble, and Miami University (FL) Wind Ensemble.

In Tune magazine called his Symphony in One Movement "enormously inventing." Of the same work, American Record Guide said "The Gallagher alone is worth the price of this well-recorded disc." The Cleveland Plain Dealer noted that his music "evokes glowing images" and exhibits "glistening personality." The Washington Post found his Berceuse "a treat" and "a lovely melodic and accessible work." His compositions are included on thirteen published compact discs on the Musical Heritage Society, Capstone, Vienna Modern Masters, Summit Records, Promuse, Altissimo, and ERM labels.

Gallagher's music has been broadcast over WGBH-FM (Boston), KUSC-FM (Los Angeles), WCLV-FM (Cleveland), WQXR-FM (New York), WNIB-FM (Chicago), WETA-FM (Washington, D.C.), WGUC-FM (Cincinnati), KSGN-FM (Minneapolis/St. Paul), KING-FM (Seattle), KBPS-FM (Portland, OR), WBHM-FM (Birmingham), the Classical Public Radio Network, and numerous other stations. Since 2002, his Berceuse, recorded by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Krakow conducted by Szymon Kawalla, has been broadcast 50 times over Radio Stephansdom Klassiksender, 107.3 FM, Vienna, Austria.

He has been the recipient of awards, grants, fellowships, or recognition from the Ohio Arts Council, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, Meet the Composer, the Yaddo Corporation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Petit Jean International Art Song Festival, the Barlow International Composition Contest, the Virginia chapter of the College Band Directors National Association, and The College of Wooster Henry Luce III Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

As producer, his recording for TNC Records of Messiaen's Oiseaux exotiques with pianist Angelin Chang, conductor John McLaughlin Williams and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony won a 2007 Grammy Award in the classical category "Best Instrumental Soloist Performance with Orchestra."

At Wooster he teaches Composition, Twentieth-Century Music Theory, Orchestration, Trumpet, and Seminar in Music of Living Composers, a course he originated. His composition students at Wooster have been awarded fellowships, assistantships, masters or doctoral degrees from Cornell, Peabody, The Hartt School of Music, Michigan, Illinois, Temple, Louisville, Syracuse, Buffalo, Virginia, Arizona, Pittsburgh, Butler, Kent State and other graduate institutions. His trumpet students have been awarded scholarships, assistantships, masters, doctoral or ABD degrees from the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School of Music, the Cincinnati Conservatory, The Hartt School of Music, Iowa, Wisconsin, Louisiana State, Ohio State, Illinois State, Duquesne, Kent State, Southern Mississippi, Ohio University, the University of Akron, and others. He lives in Wooster with his wife and is the father of two grown children. For additional information, please visit:

www.JackGallagherMusic.com