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First name: James
Last name: Primosch
Dates: 1956
Category: Quintet
Nationality: American
Opus name: Piano Quintet : For 2 Vlns, Vla, Vlc & Piano.
Publisher: Presser
Peculiarities: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/piano-quintet-sheet-music/1811814 http://www.tfront.com/p-51668-piano-quintet-for-2-vlns-vla-vlc-piano.aspx#51668
Information: Composer website: https://jamesprimosch.com Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1956, James Primosch studied at Cleveland State University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. He counts Mario Davidovsky, George Crumb and Richard Wernick among his principal teachers. Primosch's instrumental, vocal, and electronic works have been performed throughout the United States and in Europe by such ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Collage, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Twenty-First Century Consort. His Icons was played at the ISCM/League of Composers World Music Days in Hong Kong, and Dawn Upshaw included a song by Primosch in her Carnegie Hall recital debut. Commissioned works by Primosch have been premiered by the Chicago Symphony, the Albany Symphony, Speculum Musicae, the Cantata Singers, and pianist Lambert Orkis. A second Chicago Symphony commission was premiered in 2009. He recently completed a consortium commission for 12 pianists from across the United States and the UK, and is presently at work on a song cycle for soprano and orchestra on texts by former MacArthur fellow Susan Stewart. Among the honors he has received are a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Regional Artists Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center where he studied with John Harbison. Organizations commissioning Primosch include the Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, the Folger Consort, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Barlow Endowment, and the Network for New Music. In 1994 he served as composer-in-residence at the Marlboro Music Festival. Recordings of eighteen compositions by Primosch have appeared on the Albany, Azica, Bard, Bridge, CRI, Centaur, Innova, and New World labels. James Primosch is also active as a pianist, particularly in the realm of contemporary music. He was a prizewinner at the Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Rotterdam, and appears on recordings for New World, CRI, the Smithsonian Collection (re-released on Innova), and Crystal Records. He has worked as a jazz pianist and a liturgical musician. Since 1988 he has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Presser Electronic Music Studio. 9/10/14 (https://jamesprimosch.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/primosch-long-and-short-bios-sept-2014.pdf)