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Composer/Performer David T. Little, (b. 1978, New Jersey), is actively
committed to music of dramatic intensity and direct expression.
A 2003 recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, Little's composition Screamer!
was most recently chosen by Maestro David Zinman as the winner of
the 2004 Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, where
Little was a Schumann Fellow during the summer of 2003. He was awarded
a 2002 BMI Student Composer Award for his sextet "hope in
the proles," and served as the 2001 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein
Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center. Little participated
in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's 2003 Conductors/Composers
Workshop, where his Immolation was performed by the Cabrillo
Festival Orchestra.
Holding a Bachelor's Degree in Percussion Performance, Little received
his Master of Music degree in Composition at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor in 2002 as a student of William Bolcom and Michael Daugherty
and will begin his Ph.D. studies at Princeton University in the
fall of 2004.
Active in the realms of performance, improvisation and collaboration
as well as composition, Little has performed extensively in the
United States and Europe with a number of ensembles including the
Creative Arts Orchestra and Newspeak. Little has collaborated with:
artists Tobi Hollander and Timothy Hutchings; writer Todd Craig;
choreographers Beth Wielinski, Anita Cheng, Eliza Miller, Aimee
McDonald, Adele Meyers and Nanine Linning.
Little's music has been heard throughout the United States and
Europe, including performances in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland,
Edinburgh, Scotland (Fringe Fest), Montreal, Canada (Fringe Fest),
Strasbourg, France, The Theatre and Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood,
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow Dance
Festival, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC, Joyce SoHo, NYC, Susquehanna
University, Oberlin Conservatory, SUNY Albany, the University of
Michigan and Harvard University. He has received numerous commissions,
including those from the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music for the
Amelia Piano Trio, the Dresden-based Ensemble-Courage and the New
England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble. Little currently resides
in Boston, Massachusetts.
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