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Felder Feldman

David Felder David Felder is one of the leading American composers of his generation. His works have been featured at many of the leading international festivals for new music including Holland, Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Ars Electronica, Brussels, ISCM, North American New Music, Geneva, Ravinia, Aspen, Music Factory, Bourges, Vienna Modern, and many others. His work earns continuing recognition through performance and commissioning programs by such organizations as the New York New Music Ensemble, BBC Orchestra, Arditti Quartet, American Composers Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, American Brass Quintet, Ensemble InterContemporain, and many others. Felder's work has been broadly characterized by its highly energetic profile, by its frequent employment of technology, by its elaboration of musical materials (including his 'Crossfire' video series), and by its lyrical qualities. Felder has received numerous grants and commissions, including six awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, two New York State Council Commissions, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Guggenheim, Koussevitzky, and two awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Meet the Composer 'New Residencies' (1993-1996) with the Buffalo Philharmonic, a commission from the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, and many more. Recently completed commissions include a pressure triggering dreams, premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in Carnegie Hall in May 1997, In Between, for solo electronic percussion and chamber orchestra, premiered by percussionist Daniel Druckman and Inner Sky in June 2000. Current commissions include works for Champs d'Action, a sextet for the New York New Music Ensemble, and a work for flute, commissioned by Bannen-Cooper and 'whoosh' funds, for Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman. Additionally, he continues to work on his ambitious 'Crossfire' series - a full-length work combining concert video and music. Currently, Felder is Professor of Composition at SUNY Buffalo, where he also holds the Birge-Cary Chair in Composition. He has been Artistic Director of the 'June in Buffalo' Festival from 1985 to the present. From 1992 to 1996, he was Meet the Composer 'New Residencies' Composer-in-Residence with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Greater Buffalo Opera Company. In 1996, he formed the Slee Sinfonietta, a professional chamber orchestra, and he has been Artistic Director since that time. He has taught previously at the Cleveland Institute of Music, University of California at San Diego, and California State University at Long Beach. He earned a Ph.D. in 1983 from the University of California at San Diego.

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