Douglas Pew, composer

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Douglas Pew, composer

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BIO

The music of composer Douglas Pew (b. 1980) includes works for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble, solo voice and solo instruments.

Douglas has received commissions from the Barlow Endowment for New Music at Brigham Young University, the Aspen Music Festival, Society of Composer Inc., the Tangeman Sacred Music Center, the MusicX Festival, the Concert:Nova Ensemble, the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music Mens and Womens Chorus, the CCM Concert Chorale, the Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble, the CCM new music ensemble Café MoMus, the Violin Futura project of Piotr Szewczyk and the Brigham Young University-Idaho Symphony Orchestra. His works have been performed at the Stowarzyszenie Festival in Poland, the Florida State University New Music Festival, the Music10 Festival in Switzerland, the Aspen Music Festival, the SCI National Conference, and by ensembles at the University of Cincinnati, Brigham Young University-Idaho, the Northern Kentucky Youth Symphony, and the Temple Hill Symphony.

As the recipient of a Fulbright grant, Douglas will study with Paweł Łukaszewski at the Frydryk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland for the 2011-12 academic year. He was awarded a 2010 travel grant from the Tangeman Sacred Music Center to study the music and culture of the Mapuche people in southern Chile. As the 1st prize winner of the 2009 SCI/ASCAP student Composers Commission Competition, he was commissioned to compose a new song cycle for soprano and percussion ensemble, Sapiyuq Llaqtakuna , that was premiered at the SCI National Convention in November 2010. Other awards include a 2010 Tangeman Sacred Music Fund Grant, 2010 Susan and Ford Schumann Tuition Award from the Aspen Music Festival, a 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, an honorable mention in the 2010 Finale composer competition for Eighth Blackbird, and an honorable mention in the 2008 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennel Prize.

He has participated in master classes and/or lessons with R. Murray Schafer, John Adams, Paweł Łukaszewski, Stephen Hartke, Martin Bresnick, Syd Hodkinson, Zygmont Krauze, Augusta Read Thomas, and George Tsontakis.

One of his major compositional influences is the poetry, culture, literature, and landscapes of South America. He lived in northern Chile for two years and has composed many works on Chilean texts and themes. Most recently he has been interested in the indigenous poetry of the Quechua and Mapuche peoples.

Originally from San Jose California, Douglas is a graduate of Brigham Young University-Idaho (BMA, 2005), the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (MM, 2009), and he is currently pursuing a DMA in music composition at CCM. His composition teachers have included Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, and Darwin Wolford.

Douglas is active as a teacher of theory, ear training, orchestration, and choral composition techniques. He is also a conductor and singer. While a faculty member at BYU-Idaho from 2005-2007, he founded and directed the Teton New Music Ensemble. He has participated as a solo and ensemble singer with the ensembles of CCM, BYU-Idaho, and the National Choir of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators (OAKE). He has works published by Boosey & Hawkes and arrangements of LDS hymn tunes for chorus and for solo string instruments by Jackman Music Company. He and his wife Janae have three children.

NEWS

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February 2012

Awarded Special Prize of the Archbishop of Cologne for the liturgical character of the work, as a part of the 2012 Musica Sacra International Composers Competition. The piece awarded was Agnus Dei for double chorus, a cappella, from Missa 'Musica Sacra'.

January 2012

Completed work on Barlow Commission, new set of piano pieces (25 mins.) for Mark Tollefsen, A La Orilla Azul del Silencio .

October 2011

Met James MacMillan who was in Warsaw conducting a concert with the Britten Sinfonia.

September 2011

Moved to Warsaw, Poland for Fulbright study with Paweł Łukaszewski at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

Singing in Łukaszewski's choir Musica Sacra Warsaw-Praga Cathedral Choir and assisting in rehearsals.

August 2011

Awarded a commission by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University. I will compose a new set of piano works for Mark Tollefsen entitled Paisajes del Poeta . Each of the 5 movements will be based on a poetic landscape as describerd by Pablo Neruda in his last, and unfinished book of poems, El Mar y las Campanas .

June 2011

Awarded a Fulbright Grant to study composition in Warsaw, Poland with Pawel Lukaszewski at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.

May 2011

Recorded the Bagatelles for Solo Piano with Mark Tollefsen.

Awarded a commission from the Tangeman Sacred Music Fund at CCM. I will compose a new work for womens voices a capella for 10 choirs around the globe that will perform the work during the 2011-12 season. The choirs are in Taiwan, England, Poland, Canada, Australia, Cincinnati, and Indiana.

April 2011

Had a great performance of my Quecha melodrama Sapiyuq Llaqtakuna (Mother Earth) by the CCM Percussion Ensemble and graduate student singer, Meghan Tarkington. It was a very successful performance. Now I need to find a way to get the piece staged and maybe incorporate dancers to give the sense of the ritual and quasi religious rite that the piece depicts.

March 2011

Traveled to Chile in fulfillment of a Tangeman Sacred Music Grant from the University of Cincinnati. Found many wonderful resources about the Mapuche people, their culture, music, and language. I spent a day with one of their most important poets, Leonel Lienlaf. He does political work for the more than 800 thousand Mapuche people living in Chile and helps curate several of their museums. I recorded him singing and reading several of his poems in the original Mapudungun language. I felt like Bartok with a MacBook. It was an incredible experience!

February 2011

Received an honorable mention in the 2010 Finale composers competition for Eighth Blackbird.

January 2011

DMA composition recital at CCM. It was a successful night with with many wonderful performers.

November 2010

Awarded a travel grant by the Tangeman Scared Music Fund at CCM. I will use the funds to travel to Chile in March 2011 to study the language and musical culture of the Mapuche Indians.

Ubi Caritas was accepted for performance at the Stowarzyszenie Festival in Poland by Pawel Lukaszewski and the Laboritorium of New Music.

October 2010

We had our 3rd baby on October 4th, Corynne Louise Pew!!

Submitted an application to the US Fulbright Commission to study in Poland next year with Pawel Lukaszewski.

Submitted a grant to travel to Chile and study the music of the Mapuches.

September 2010

Bagatelles was accepted for performance by the Florida State University New Music Festival in January 2011.

August 2010

Boosey & Hawkes is going to publish Ubi Caritas for Women's Chorus. What a great 30th birthday gift!

Spent most of the month at the Aspen Music Festival. Met Marin Alsop in the grocery store and had great private lessons with Syd Hodkinson.

July 2010

Took the family to Indian River, Ontario for a week for vacation and a brief study with R. Murray Schaffer.

June 2010

While at the Music10 festvial in Blonay, Switzerland I traveled to Bremgarten, near Zurich, for the weekend to meet Polish composer Pawel Lukaszewski. I had a great lesson with him, mostly about choral music, and then attended the premier of his new work for Chorus, soloists, and orchestra, Missa De Maria Magdala. It was awesome! I'm hoping to get a Fulbright to go and study with him at the Chopin Conservatory in Warsaw.

March 2010

Accepted to the Aspen music festival and their going to pay my tuition, hallelujah!

February 2010

We found out that we are now expecting baby #3 in October, were getting close to a string quartet.

Accepted to the Music10 festival in Blonay Switzerland, 21 June - 3 July.

January 2010

Commissioned by the University of Cincinnati combined Men's and Women's Choruses to compose a work for their spring tour to Chicago.

December 2009

Accepted for a course of Study with Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer during the summer of 2010. We will work on choral composition.

Commissioned by concert:nova of Cincinnati, OH to compose a movement for their Carnival of the Animals project. I have been assigned The Swan.

October 2009

Bagatelles for Solo Piano awarded the 1st prize in the 2009 SCI/ASCAP Student Commission Competition.

Mar 24, 2012

Musica Sacra Warsaw Cathedral Choir

Warsaw, Poland

Missa 'Musica Sacra'

Pawel Lukaszewski, Conductor

Mar 4, 2012

Recital - Fryderyk Chopin Univ. of Music

Warsaw, Poland

Missa 'Musica Sacra'

Musica Sacra Warsaw Cath. Choir

Pawel Lukaszewski, Conductor

Bagatelles

Artur Slotwinski

Silent Music

Artur Slotwinski, Douglas Pew

Abide With Me

Dougla Pew, Janeck Krutul

Feb 22, 2012

Chor Erzbistum Köln

Köln (Cologne), Germany

Missa 'Musica Sacra' (selections)

Richard Mailänder, conductor

Feb 19, 2012

Musica Sacra Warsaw Cathedral Choir

Warsaw, Poland

Missa 'Musica Sacra' (selections)

Pawel Lukaszewski, Conductor

Feb 2012

St. Thomas Episcopal Church Choir

Cincinnati, OH

Missa 'Musica Sacra' (selections)

Carlton Monroe, conductor

Nov 22, 2011

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Cincinnati, OH

Prelude and Fugue for 2 Violins

Nick Neagle and Josh Ulrich

Nov 4, 2011

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Bagatelles for Solo PIano

Mitch McKay

May 22, 2011

St. Boniface Church

Cincinnati, OH

Rondas for SATB a cappella

University of Cincinnati-CCM Concert Chorale

May 17, 2011

Cafe MoMus

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Cincinnati, OH

Lautraro Ñi Pülli for Flute and Cello

April 22, 2011

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Mark Tollefsen DMA Piano Recital

Bagatelles for Solo Piano

April 14, 2011

Bearcat Piano Festival

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Cincinnati, OH

Bagatelles for Solo Piano

Mark Tollefsen, Piano

April 1, 2011

CCM Percussion Ensemble

Cincinnati, OH

Sapiyuq Llaqtakuna for Soprano and

Percussion Ensemble

Meghan Tarkington, soprano

March 13, 2011

University of Michigan

Exchange Concert Piano Series

Ann Arbor, MI

Twelve Bagatelles for Piano Solo

Mark Tollefsen, Piano

February 17, 2011

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Cincinnati, OH

Abigail Santos DMA Recital

En Los Muros De Arles for Soprano, Clarinet, and Percussion

January 28, 2011

Florida State University New Music Festival

Tallahassee, FL

Twelve Bagatelles for Solo Piano

January 24, 2011

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Cincinnati, OH

Douglas Pew DMA Recital

More for Soprano and Piano

Cancion De Los Que Buscan Olvidar

for SATB and Marimba

Twelve Bagatelles for Solo Piano

En Los Muros De Arles for Soprano, Clarinet, and Percussion

En Comunion for Solo Violin

January 8, 2011

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Cincinnati, OH

Sapiyuq Llaqtakuna for Soprano and

4 Male Percussionists

CCM Percussion Ensemble

November 28, 2010

Stowarzyszenie Festival

Bialystok, Poland

Ubi Caritas for Womens Chorus

Chór Opery i Filharmonii Podlaskiej

November 14, 2010

SCI National Conference

University of South Carolina

Sapiyuq Llaqtakuna for Soprano and

4 Male Percussionists

Tina Stallard and USC Percussion Ensemble

November 14, 2010

Jacksonville Main Library

Jacksonville, FL

En Comunion for Solo Violin

Piotr Szewczyk

Th. August 19, 2010

Aspen Music Festival

Aspen, CO

Silent Music for 2 Pianos

Aspen Contemporary Ensemble

June 2010

Hindemeth Music Centre

Blonay, Switzerland

En Los Muros De Arles

Lindsay Kessleman, Yu-Chun Kuo, Michael Maccafferi

Mon. May 24, 2010

Stanley Kaplan Theater, Arnoff Center

Cincinnati, OH

The Swan from Carnival Project

Concert:nova, Ken Lam, conductor

with the Cincinnati Ballet, Show time TBA

Sun. May 23, 2010

Stanley Kaplan Theater, Arnoff Center

Cincinnati, OH

The Swan from Carnival Project

Concert:nova, Ken Lam, conductor

with the Cincinnati Ballet, Show time TBA

November, 2009

Cohen Family Studio Theater

Cincinnati, OH

Cancion De Los Que Buscan Olvidar

Nicholas Neagle

May, 2009

Cohen Family Studio Theater

Cincinnati, OH

12 Bagatelles for Solo Piano

Mark Tollefsen

Accent09 Festival

WORKS

Large Ensemble

Large Ensemble

Missa Resurrexit , Chorus, Solists, and Orchestra (in progress)

Duration: ca. 45 min.

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More , Soprano and Orchestra (2010)

Poem by Marie Howe

Duration: 5 min

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An American in Paris (Gershwin), arr. Violin and Orchestra (2008)

Arranged from the Heifiz transcription

Commissioned for Jenny Oaks Baker by the Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra

Duration: 6 min.

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Bagatelles , Concert Band (2007/8)

2008 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederrick Fennell Honorable Mention

Duration: 11 min.

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Suite from Catfish Row (Gershwin), arr. Voice, Clarinet, and Wind Ensemble (2007)

Medley of famous tunes arranged from the opera Porgy and Bess

Commissioned by the Brigham Youn University-Idaho Wind Ensemble

Duration: 13 min.

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Prelude and Fugue in E minor (Shostakovich), arr. String Orchestra (2007)

Arranged from the original piano solo

Commissioned by the Teton New Music Ensemble

Duration: 8 min.

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Sinfonia Concertante , Organ and Orchestra (2006)

Commissioned for Daniel Kerr by the Brigham Young University-Idaho Symphony Orchestra

Duration: 18 min.

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Air: 30,000 feet , String Orchestra (2005)

Commissioned by the Brigham Young University-Idaho Chamber Orchestra

2008 Morton Gould Young Composers Award

Duration: 5 min.

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Chamber

Chamber

Lautraro Ñi Pülli (The Ghost of Lautaro) , Flute and Cello with dramatic dialogue (2011)

Poem by Leonel Lienlaf

Language: Mapudungun

Commissioned by the University of Cincinnati-CCM Cafe MoMus Ensemble and Tom and Lisa Van Langen

Duration: 15 min.

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Sapiyuq Llaqtakuna (Mother Earth) , Soprano and 4 Male Percussionists (2010)

Poems by Dida Aguirre Garcia and Porfirio Meneses Lazon

Language: Quechua

Commissioned by Society of Composers Inc.

Duration: 15 min.

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Silent Muisc , 2 PIanos (2010)

Commissioned by the Aspen Music Festival

Duration: 8 min.

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En Los Muros de Arles (On the Walls of Arles) , Soprano, Clarinet, and Percussion (2010)

Poems by Gabriela Mistral

Language: Spanish

Commissioned by the Music10 Festival

Duration: 16 min.

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Hear a Recording; Mv. 1 , Mv. 2 , Mv. 3 , Mv. 4

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Trombone Quartet (2008)

Commissioned by the University of Cincinnati-CCM Graduate Trombone Quartet

Duration: 10 min.

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Hear a Recording; Mv. 1 , Mv. 2 , Mv. 3

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Prelude and Fugue , 2 Violins (2006)

Duration: 8 min.

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Solo

Solo

A la Orilla Azul del Silencio (On the Blue Shore of Silence) , Solo PIano (2012)

Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University for pianist Mark Tollefsen

Duration: ca 25 min.

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E n Comunión (In Communion) , Solo Violin (2009)

Commissioned by Piotr Szewczyk, Violin Futura 3

Duration: 7 min.

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Bagatelles , Solo Piano (2008)

2009 SCI/ASCAP Student Composers Award, 1st Prize

Duration: 12 min.

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Hear a Recording; #1 , #2 , #3 , #4 , #5 , #6 , #7

Choral

Choral

Missa Resurrexit , Chorus, Soloists, and Organ (in progress)

Duration: ca. 45 min.

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Missa 'Musica Sacra' , Mixed Chorus and Organ (2011)

Traditional texts

Composed for the Musica Sacra Warsaw-Praga Cathedral Choir

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Pater Noster , Treble Chorus and Organ (2011)

Traditional texts

from Missa 'Musica Sacra'

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Ave Redemptor , Women's Chorus (SSAA) a cappella (2011)

Traditional text

Commissioned by the Tangeman Sacred Music Center at the University of Cincinnati-CCM

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God is our Refuge and Strength , Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Organ (2011)

Psalm 46 text

Commissioned by the Erlanger, KY Church of Christ, for their 110 year foundation celebration

Duration: 3 min.

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Rondas (Round Dances) , Mixed Chorus (SATB) a cappella (2011)

Poems by Gabriela Mistral

Language: Spanish

Commissioned by the University of Cincinnati-CCM Concert Chorale

Duration: 16 min.

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Bess You Is My Woman (Gershwin), arr. for Mixed Chorus (SSAATTBB) a cappella (2010)

Arranged from the opera Porgy and Bess

Commissioned by the American Fork High School A Cappella Choir

Duration: 6 min.

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Cancion de los que Buscan Olvidar (Song of those who seek to forget) , Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Marimba (2010)

Poem by Gabriella Mistral

Language: Spanish

Commissioned by the University of Cincinnati combined Men's and Women's choirs

Duration: 5 min.

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El Mar y Las Campanas (The Sea and the Bells) , Three MIxed Choruses (SATB) and Percussion Ensemble (2008/9)

Poems by Pablo Neruda

Language: Spanish

Duration: 18 min.

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Ubi Caritas , Women's Chorus (SSSAAA) a cappella (2007)

Traditional text

Duration: 4 min.

Published by Boosey & Hawkes

LDS Arrangements

LDS Arrangements

Jesus Savior Pilot Me , arr. Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Piano (2011)

Published by Jackman Music Corporation

Medley with O Savior, Thou Who Wearest a Crown

Poems by Edward Hopper and Karen Lynn Davidson

Duration: 5 min.

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My Heavenly Father Loves Me , arr. Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Piano (2011)

Published by Jackman Music Corporation

Medley with All Things Bright and Beautiful

Poems by Clara W. McMaster and Cecil Frances Alexander

Duration: 4 min.

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Principal Player: Book II , arr. Solo String Instrument and Piano (2009)

Published by Jackman Music Corporation

Contents: A Child's Prayer, A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, Abide With Me, Come Come Ye Saints, Jesus Savior Pilot Me, My Heavenly Father Loves Me, O Savior Stay This Night With Me, Oh May My Sould Commune With Thee

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Principal Player: Book I , arr. Solo String Instrument and Piano (2006)

Published by Jackman Music Corporation

Contents: As I Search The Holy Scriptures, As The Dew From Heaven Distilling, Come Unto Jesus, Did You Think To Pray, Lead Kindly Light, No Desmayeis Oh Santos, Softly Beams the Sacred Dawning, Teach Me To Walk In The Light, We Listen To A Prophet's Voice, America The Beautiful

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Three Hymn Preludes , arr. String Orchestra (2004/5)

Duration: 12 min.

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Hark All Ye Nations , arr. Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Organ (2004)

Published by Jackman Music Corporation

Duration: 4 min.

Large Ensemble

Chamber

Solo

Choral

LDS Arrangements

LINKS

Ensembles:

Polyphony

The Crossing

Vocal Arts Ensemble

Musica Sacra-Warsaw

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Berlin Philharmonic

Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Cincinnati Symphony

Eighth Blackbird

ICE

Concert:Nova

St. Lawrence Quartet

Trio Con Brio

Other:

BBC Proms

Aspen Music Festival

MusicX Festival

Society of Composers Inc.

American Composers Forum

Instant Encore

Fryderyk Chopin University of Music

University of Cincinnati-CCM

Brigham Young University-Idaho, Music

Department

Mormon.org

People :

Pawel Lukaszewski

R. Murray Schafer

Syd Hodkinson

Martin Bresnick

Stephen Hartke

John Adams

Joel Hoffman

Michael Fiday

James MacMillan

Stephen Layton

Pat Metheny

Brad Mehldau

Ornette Coleman

Marie Howe

Sean Friar

Martin Kennedy

Ethan Wickman

Piotr Szewczyk

Maria Grenfell

Carrie Magin

Jennifer Jolley

Wenhui Xie

GALLERY

Pew Family 2011

Murray Schafer Wolf's Head

Blonay Switzerland

Murray Schafer's Laybrinth

JanaePew

Janae and Corynne

Shore of the Atacama

Parinacota and Chungará Lake

Atacama stream

Atacama salt flats

Valle de la Luna

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CONTACT

CONTACT

doug_douglaspew.com

dougpew_gmail.com

801.709.7989 Magic Jack

(while I'm in Poland)

801.473.1313 cell (US)

+48 514 344 631 cell (Poland)

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