# James Dashow ![James Dashow](/sites/g/files/omnuum3121/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/fromm/files/james_dashow.jpg?itok=8SZxxNY6) laptop\_windows Title: *A Sheaf of Times* Commission: 1991 Completed: 1994 Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, piano, violin, cello Premiere Location: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Premiere Ensemble: HELIX! New Music Ensemble of Rutgers University Notes: James Dashow has had commissions, awards and grants from the Bourges International Festival of Experimental Music, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Linz Ars Electronica Festival, the Fromm Foundation, the Biennale di Venezia, the USA National Endowment for the Arts, RAI (Italian National Radio), the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation, Il Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte (Montepulciano, Italy), the Koussevitzky Foundation, Prague Musica Nova, and the Harvard Musical Association of Boston. In 2000, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Magistere at the 30th Festival International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques in Bourges. A pioneer in the field of computer music, Dashow was one of the founders of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale at the University of Padova, where he composed the first works of computer music in Italy; he has taught at MIT, Princeton University, the Centro para la Difusion di Musica Contemporanea in Madrid and the Musica Viva Festival in Lisbon; he was invited by the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in Venezia to teach an intensive series of workshop/masterclasses in digital sound synthesis techniques applied in particular to compositional practices, and to various aspects of the spatialization of sound. - ## Commission Date [1991](/commissiondate/1991) - ## Completion Date [1994](/completiondate/1994) - ## Composer [Dashow, James](/composer/dashow-james) - ## Commissions [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)