Jody Rockmaker

Biography

"Rockmaker's writing is both traditionally disciplined and unexpectedly inventive..."   -New Music Connoisseur

Jody Rockmaker (born 1961, New York City) received his Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University. He has studied at the Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory and the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His principal teachers have been Erich Urbanner, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt, Claudio Spies, Malcolm Peyton and Miriam Gideon.

Dr. Rockmaker is the recipient of numerous awards including a Barlow Endowment Commission, Fulbright Grant, two BMI Awards for Young Composers, an ASCAP Grant, the George Whitefield Chadwick Medal from New England Conservatory, and a National Orchestral Association Orchestral Reading Fellowship. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Villa Montalvo, and has been a Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. He taught at Stanford University and is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University School of Music.

  • violin
  • ACE Publications

    13 title(s)
    Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
    Jody Rockmaker CHILD'S PLAY for string quartet str 4tet: 2-1-1
    2 violins, viola, violoncello
    Jody Rockmaker DER HEYSER BULGER for Klezmer Band
    Klezmer band: fl, cl, tpt, bar, tbn, tba, perc, pf, gtr, mand, 2vln
    Jody Rockmaker Earth Spirits Violin and Viola
    Jody Rockmaker EGRET IN THE LIVING ROOM Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello
    Jody Rockmaker EQUAL PARTNERS
    vl, pno
    Jody Rockmaker Eyes of an Abinhaya Dancer, The fl, cl, vln, vcl
    Jody Rockmaker FRANTIC ANTICS for guitar and violin
    gtr, vln
    Jody Rockmaker Quarter for Twelve fl,ob,cl,bs.cl,bsn,hn,perc,2vln,vla,vcl,cb
    Jody Rockmaker Saraswati Violoncello Solo and Violin Ensemble (4 Parts)
    Jody Rockmaker SONG OF SONGS
    S, T, cham orch: fl, cl, vln, vc, 2perc
    Jody Rockmaker Sounds of Hooma
    orchestral bells, flute, violin, bass drum, bass clarinet
    Jody Rockmaker SPACE(S)
    cl, vln, vla
    Jody Rockmaker where late the sweet birds sang Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Percussion, and Piano

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