Title: From the Ashes
Commission: 2003
Completed: 2005
Instrumentation: septet
Premiere Location: Herbst Theatre in San Francisco
Premiere Ensemble: Earplay
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Bruce Christian Bennett (b. 1968) is a native of Seattle and is currently residing in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 where he studied composition with Richard Felciano and computer music with David Wessel. He received his M.M. in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1993, where he studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, David Conte, and Elinor Armer; he received his B.A. in music from Reed College in 1990 where he was a student of David Schiff. He has received several honors, in addition to grants from meet the composer, he was awarded a commission from the Fromm Foundation in 2003 and the Prix Maurice Ravel in 1993. He is a founding member of both the Berkeley New Music Project and the CNMAT Users Group (a coalition of composers and engineers whose interests are in the interaction of music and technology), and is on the board of directors for Earplay (a San Francisco-based new music ensemble) from 2000 to 2003, and was president of the board from 2001–2002. He was also the editor of the Society of Composers, Inc. Newsletter from 2001 to 2006, and is currently on the editorial review board for the SEAMUS Journal. His works have been played throughout the United States and abroad by such groups as the Arditti String Quartet, the Berkeley Symphony, CityWinds, the Del Sol String Quartet, Earplay, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Sirius, and members of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.