Composition

Fred Simon

ntakagi — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:04:59 +0000

Fred Simon ntakagi Sun, 10/08/2023 - 14:04

Additional Studies / Recent Awards / Recordings

Recordings:
• as a leader
Since Forever with Paul McCandless, Steve Rodby, Mark Walker, 2009
Deep Purple, 2009
Remember the River, with Paul McCandless, Steve Rodby, 2004
Dreamhouse, 2000
Songs of My Youth, Vol. 1, 2000
The Music of the Beach Boys, 1998
Twilight, co-led with Paul McCandless and Teja Bell, 1996
Open Book, with Steve Rodby, Ross Traut, Bonnie Herman, Ingrid Graudins, David Onderdonk, Mark Walker, 1991
Usually/Always, with Paul McCandless, Steve Rodby, Ross Traut, Bonnie Herman, Ingrid Graudins, Mark Walker, Iain Matthews, 1988
Time and the River, with Liz Cifani, Bonnie Herman, 1985
Short Story, 1984

• on samplers
Sampler 7, 2009
The Music Collection Volume 3, 2008
Sampler 6, 2007
A Christmas: The Night Before Christmas, 2005
Sampler 5, naimcd094 2005
Cinema: A Collection, 2005
America, 2004
True Stereo Sampler, 2004
Chill 2, 2003
Passion/Romance, 2003
The Music Collection LP 1, 2003
Chill, 2003
'Tis the Season, 2002
Matters of the Heart, 2002
Peace of Mind, 2002
Homeland, 2002
Sampler 3, 2001
20 Years Of Narada Piano, 2001
Meditation: Relax Restore and Revive, 2001
Classics: Romance, 2000
Signature Notes Sampler, 2000
Quiet Moods: Romantic Reflections, 1998
Quiet Moods: Meditative Moments, 1998
On a Winter's Night, 1997
Candlelight Moments: Romantic Moments, 1997
Candlelight Moments: Meditative Moments, 1997
Sanctuary: 20 Years of Windham Hill, 1996
Chill Out Sampler, 1995
Piano Sampler transcriptions published by Hal Leonard, 1994
Romance: Music for Piano, 1994
Kizuna, a Wedding Collection, 1993
Everlasting Love, 1991
A Jazzy Wonderland with Traut/Rodby
Sampler '89, 1989
A Winter's Solstice 2, 1988
The World of Private Music, Vol. 2, 1987
iel, Private Music 1986, reissued by One Way Records 2000, also composer
On the Future of Aviation, 1985, reissued by One Way Records 2000

• with Iain Matthews, member of Fairport Convention
The Soul of the Machine, 1987

• with the Simon & Bard Group
The Enormous Radio, Larry Coryell, Paul Wertico, 1984
Tear It Up, with Ralph Towner, Steve Rodby, Paul Wertico, 1982
Musaic, with Larry Coryell, Steve Rodby, Paul Wertico, 1980

• with Paul McCandless, founding member of Oregon
Premonition, with Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Will Kennedy, Mark Walker, 1992

• with Jerry Goodman, founding member of The Flock, Mahavishnu Orchestra
It's Alive, 1988, reissued by One Way Records 2000

Ariel, Private Music 1986, reissued by One Way Records 2000, also composer
On the Future of Aviation, 1985, reissued by One Way Records 2000

Walking a Changing Line, 1988, also composer, arranger

• with Kurt Elling
Flirting with Twilight, 2001, as composer only

• with Fareed Haque
Manresa, 1989, also composer
Voices Rising, 1988

• with Ira Antelis
Reflections, 2013, also arranger, additional composer

• with David Onderdonk
Lookout, 1986, also composer
Close Call, 1984, also composer

• with Michael Manring
Drastic Measures, 1991

• with Don Stiernberg
Home Cookin', 2007 as composer only

• with Tom McCarthy
Spark and Luminance, 2002

• with Zig Zag Jazz Harp Quartet
Caught, 2008 as composer only

• with Liz Cifani, harpist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago
Bella Stella, 1993

• with Brothers Lazaroff
Row of Trees, 2003

• with Sérgio Pires
Umbigo, 1999
Saudade, 1994

• with Al Rose
Information Overload, 1994

Academic Title

Jazz, Piano, and Musicianship Faculty

Anything else we should know?

I’m a devout musical omnivore.

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Basic Teaching Philosophy or Special Music Interests/Specialties

My teaching philosophy (follows that of Plato):
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.”

Courses

Jazz Improv
Musicianship 1
Musicianship for Adults
Listening to Music: A Selective Survey of Human Musical Expression

Department

Community Music School

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Education

Bachelor of Music Composition with a Minor concentration in piano and jazz studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1976

fsimon@musicinst.org

Hire Date

Tue, 11/30/2010 - 12:00

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Name

Fred Simon

Person Type

Faculty

Phone

847.905.1500

Photo

Simon, Fred.jpg

Professional Affiliations & Activities

Roosevelt University Chicago College for the Performing Arts: faculty
Merit School of Music: faculty
Member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, 1976

Program Area

Three Questions Answer

A Few of my Favorite Things:

Ten albums I love (list changes daily) —
Personal Mountains - Keith Jarrett
Ravel/Debussy String Quartets - Quatuor Ysaÿe
Music of My Mind - Stevie Wonder
Revolver - The Beatles
Song To a Seagull - Joni Mitchell
Native Dancer - Wayne Shorter
The Band - The Band
Lyle Mays - Lyle Mays
James Taylor - James Taylor
Solstice - Ralph Towner

One of my musical moments:
Recording and touring with the Paul McCandless Band, along with bandmates Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, and Mark Walker, world-class caliber artists all.

What does music mean to me?
Everything.

Weight

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197

Media ID

482

Willing to Teach at

Chicago - Gratz Center

Dr. Lazar Trachtenberg

ntakagi — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:48:42 +0000

Dr. Lazar Trachtenberg ntakagi Mon, 10/09/2023 - 15:48

Additional Studies / Recent Awards / Recordings

Awards and achievements:
His honors and awards include ASCAP, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
Israeli Music Institute Prize of E. Peri Composers' Competition.

His works have been performed in the United States, Canada, Israel, Europe, and Singapore by the Pacifica Quartet, the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, and members of the Chicago and Jerusalem Symphony Orchestras, among others.

Recordings:
The Pacifica Quartet had recorded his String Quartet Rachel Weeping For Her Children on the CRS label; his Witches' Soiree for violin and viola was commissioned and recorded by Almita and Roland Vamos; and recently, Meditations for clarinet was published on YouTube by Tal Gottdiner.

Academic Title

Composition Faculty and Musicianship Faculty

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Basic Teaching Philosophy or Special Music Interests/Specialties

Composition, Harmony, Counterpoint, Orchestration, Theory and Solfege.

Department

Community Music School

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Education

Ph.D. in Composition, University of Chicago, and his
B.Mus and Artist Diploma from the Academy of Music in Jerusalem, Israel
He studied composition with Ralph Shapey and Shulamit Ran in Chicago and with Mark Kopytman in Jerusalem.

ltrachtenberg@musicinst.org

Hire Date

Thu, 09/01/1994 - 12:00

Instrument(s)

Composition

Name

Dr. Lazar Trachtenberg

Person Type

Faculty

Phone

847.905.1500

Photo

Lazar Trachtenberg 01, for MIC.jpg

Program Area

Private Instruction

Musicianship

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Mischa Zupko

ntakagi — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 19:21:48 +0000

Mischa Zupko ntakagi Sun, 10/01/2023 - 14:21

Celebrated for compositions that are emotionally-charged and viscerally-engaging, composer Mischa Zupko excites both musicians and audiences. Zupko’s piano concerto, “Fahrenheit”, was declared “a powerhouse of the evening” by the Chicago Tribune’s John von Rhein and “harrowing and gripping” by Classical Voice North America. In a review of his new release “Eclipse,” Bob O’Neil of Positive Feedback wrote, “Zupko's chamber music leaves me uncharacteristically speechless.… This music appears to have no specific roots, doesn't seem to derive from any other composer. It simply asserts itself with force and eloquence.” Zupko has also received favorable reviews from New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini and the Los Angeles Times and has been featured in the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader for his significant compositional activity in Chicago’s new music scene. Zupko has been a featured guest on David Osenberg’s weekly radio program, “Cadenza” (WWFM).

Zupko’s works have been championed, commissioned, and premiered by leading United States orchestras and chamber groups, including the Grant Park Symphony and Chorus, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony, the Civitas Ensemble, the Western Brass Quintet, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, American Modern Ensemble, Camerata Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the St. Olaf Band, Eighth Blackbird, Corigliano Quartet, and Lincoln Trio. He has worked with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and members of the Kronos, Vermeer, and Pacifica Quartets. Other significant commissions have come from the Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Performances of Zupko’s works have been featured at Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, and Ravinia. He has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Fulcrum Point New Music Project and is engaged to serve in the same capacity with Fermilab, America’s particle physics and accelerator lab.

Zupko’s numerous awards include 1st place in the Pacific Symphony’s Orchestra's American Composer's Festival, three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, including the first prize Kaplan Award, the “First Music” award from the New York Youth Symphony, the Jacob Druckman prize from the Aspen Music Festival; and finalist in the Rome Prize Competition.

Recordings of his works are available on Cedille Records, Crystal Records, Innova, American Modern Recordings, and ENF.
Mr. Zupko is also on the faculty at DePaul University School of Music.

Academic Title

Composition Faculty

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Courses

Music Theory Faculty

Department

The Academy

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