Noted for his
lyrical and harmonically adventurous music, David
Chaitkin has composed symphonic as well as a variety
of chamber and vocal works. His music has been performed
by such ensembles as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,
the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, the DaCapo
Chamber Players and the St. Luke’s Chamber
Ensemble.
He has received awards from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, which described his music as
“subtle, powerful works of a knowing
musical intelligence,” and “effortlessly
original. A lyrical metamorphosis of timbre, rhythm
and shape engage the ear…his music is both
intense and sensitive.”
He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts
and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and commissions
from Chamber Music America, the New York State Council
on the Arts, the New Hampshire Music Festival, the
Gotland (Sweden) Chamber Music Festival, as well
as from individual soloists and ensembles.
His recent commissions include Concerto for Soprano
Saxophone and Orchestra by Anders Paulsson and the
Stockton (California) Symphony Orchestra, premiered
in 2005; Trio for violin, cello and piano by the Koussevitzky Foundation,
premiered in 2004 by the Peabody Trio; and Celebration
for winds by the U.S. Marine Band, premiered in
March, 2007.
Chaitkin (b. 1938) followed early experience as
a jazz musician with studies in composition at Pomona
College and the University of California, Berkeley,
where he received its Prix de Paris. His teachers
included Luigi Dallapiccola, Seymour Shifrin, Max
Deutsch, Andrew Imbrie and Karl Kohn. He has taught
at Reed College, New York University and Brooklyn
College. His music is published by Nottingham Square
Publications, G. Schirmer, Josef Marx Music Co.,
C.F. Peters Edition, E.C. Schirmer and Columbia
University Press, and may be heard on CRI and Albany
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