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James
Barry composes music drawn from a unique amalgam of high and low art.
Early influences include playing in and writing songs for metal, rock,
and punk bands followed by rigorous academic compositional training. The
end product is an immediate, intelligent, colorful, original, dramatic
brand of contemporary music.
James has been the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and honors including: the 2001 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, Meet The Composer, the American Music Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Chicago Ensemble (Chicago, IL), the Auros Group for New Music (Boston, MA), the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (San Francisco, CA), Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's Fresh Ink, the SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission, and The Commission Project (Rochester, NY) among others. Recent performances and commissions include; continuing hearings of Snapshot by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Holyoke Civic Symphony (Holyoke, MA), the Sacramento Youth Symphony, the Florida All-State Orchestra and a concert band version by the FSU Symphonic Band; Shabby Chic performed by the Society for New Music at the Everson Museum in Syracuse, NY; ONE, a multimedia work with visual artist Linnea Paskow, premiered at Galapagos Art Space Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY and Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY; the New York City premiere of Displace by the Sirius String Quartet (NYC); the premiere of Boondoggle by the Reizen Ensemble (NYC); a new song cycle Unfulfilled for soprano Rachel Cobb premiered by Forecast Music (NYC); Crush for flute and marimba commissioned by the Guenther/Davis Duo premiered at the Florida Flute Fair in Orlando, FL; and the premiere of Rising, commissioned by the Brandon High School Orchestra in Tampa, FL for their 40th anniversary. James is artistic/managing
director of the New York City based new music group Forecast Music.
He was born in Newport, RI and grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington
D.C. Before moving to NYC he was on the composition faculty at the University
of Florida and was an assistant instructor at Florida State University.
He received a DM in composition from Florida State University, a MM
in composition from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BM in composition
and classical guitar performance from the University of South Florida.
He has studied composition with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Ladislav Kubik,
Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, Stephen Montague, Mark Schultz, James
Lewis, and Paul Reller and additional work with Lewis Spratlan. |
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