Title: Clarinet Concerto
Commission: 2013
Completed: 2016
Instrumentation: orchestra and clarinet
Premiere Location: University of Iowa
Premiere Ensemble: The Center for New Music Ensemble
Notes:

David Gompper has lived and worked professionally as a pianist, a conductor, and a composer in New York, San Diego, London, Nigeria, Michigan, Texas and Iowa. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Humphrey Searle. After teaching in Nigeria, he received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Texas, Arlington. Since 1991, he has been Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa. In 2002–2003 Gompper was in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching, performing and conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. In 2009 he received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, a Fromm Commission in 2013, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.