John MackeyJohn Mackey (b. October 1, 1973, New Philadelphia, Ohio) holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music , where he studied with John Corigliano and Donald Erb, respectively. Mackey particularly enjoys writing music for dance, and he has focused on that medium for the past few years. His works have been performed at the Sydney Opera House; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Carnegie Hall; the Kennedy Center; Weill Recital Hall; Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival; Italy's Spoleto Festival; Alice Tully Hall; the Joyce Theater; Dance Theater Workshop; and throughout Italy, Chile, Japan, Colombia, Austria, Brazil, Germany, England, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In February 2003, the Brooklyn Philharmonic premiered Mackey's work Redline Tango at the BAM Opera House, with Kristjan Jarvi conducting. Additional performances of that work are scheduled with the Dallas Symphony (under Andrew Litton), as well as at this summer's Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (under Marin Alsop) and at the Vail Music Festival. John Mackey has received numerous commissions from the Parsons Dance Company, as well as commissions from the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute, the Dallas Theater Center, the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, the New York Youth Symphony, Ailey 2, Peridance Ensemble, and Jeanne Ruddy Dance, among many others. Recent commissions include works for the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, the Juilliard School's Dance Division, and the Vail Valley Music Festival. Mackey's work has been choreographed by a diverse range of artists, from Doug Varone to David Parsons, from Robert Battle to the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swim Team. (The team won a bronze medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics performing to Mackey's score, Damn.) Mackey's work has been recognized with numerous grants and awards from organizations including ASCAP (Concert Music Awards, 1999 through 2004; Morton Gould Young Composer Award, 2002 and 2003), the American Music Center (Margaret Jory Fairbanks Copying Assistance Grant, 2000, 2002), and the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust (Live Music for Dance commissioning grants, 1998, 1999, and 2000). He was a CalArts/Alpert Award nominee in 2000. In 2002-2003, Mackey was selected as a Meet-The-Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive! Composer-in-Residence with the Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony in Minneapolis. He was Composer-in-Residence at the Vail Valley Music Festival in Vail, Colorado, in the summer of 2004, and was again selected as a Music Alive! Composer-in-Residence for the fall of 2004, with the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra . John Mackey served as Music Director of the Parsons Dance Company from 1999-2003. To entertain himself while procrastinating on commissions, John is a cycling enthusiast. |
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