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Composers BureauJack GallagherBiography JACK GALLAGHER is Professor of Music at The College of Wooster in Ohio. His Symphony in One Movement has been called by American Record Guide "a well-written, moving work;" it noted "the Gallagher alone is worth the price of this well-recorded disc." In Tune magazine has called his music "enormously inventing." The Cleveland Plain Dealer noted that his music "evokes glowing images." The Charleston Post and Courier said of The Persistence of Memory that "the musical textures and sounds were unique." The Washington Post found his Berceuse "a treat" and "a lovely melodic and accessible work." Mr. Gallagher was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1947. Early instrumental studies included accordion at the Long Island School of Music and Dance and trumpet in the Plainview, New York, Public Schools. He received the B.A. degree cum laude from Hofstra University and earned masters and doctoral degrees in composition from Cornell University. His principal teachers were Elie Siegmeister, Robert Palmer and Burrill Phillips. He studied with Karel Husa and Thea Musgrave at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and was awarded a fellowship to attend a composition seminar with Ned Rorem at the Petit Jean Art Song Festival in Arkansas. He participated in master classes with Aaron Copland and George Crumb. Mr. Gallagher's Exotic Dances was nominated by the then-editor of American Music magazine for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In the same year, his The Persistence of Memory was selected by the Charleston Symphony orchestra for performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He was named 1996 Ohio Composer of the Year by the Ohio Music Teachers Association. In 1999 he was Featured Guest Composer at the four-day 37th Annual Contemporary Music Festival at Sam Houston State University. His Diversions was awarded First Prize at the 1987 Symposium for New Band Music at Old Dominion University. Mr. Gallagher has received awards, grants, fellowships or recognition from the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Program, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Yaddo Corporation, Meet the Composer, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Barlow International Composition Competition, The College of Wooster Henry Luce III Fund for Distinguished Scholarship, The College of Wooster Faculty Development Fund, the Greater Wayne County Foundation, and others. An experienced performer on the trumpet, he performed two seasons as rotating section trumpet (occasional principal), the National Orchestral Association, New York City, including eight concerts at Carnegie Hall and weekly broadcasts over WNYC-FM. His trumpet teachers included Charles Gouse, Allan Dean, Edward Treutel, Carmine Caruso and James Smith (coach). He lives in Wooster with his wife, who teaches piano, his daughter
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