Michael Gandolfi

http://michaelgandolfi.com/

(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)

Title: Fantasia
Commission: 2003
Completed: 2006
Instrumentation: alto saxophone and orchestra
Premiere Location: Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Premiere Ensemble: Boston Modern Orchestra
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Title: Geppetto's Workshop
Commission: 1996
Completed: 2000
Instrumentation: flute and piano
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Michael Gandolfi has a broad range of musical interests encompassing not only contemporary concert music but also jazz, blues and rock, by which route he first became a musician. The span of his musical investigation is paralleled by his cultural curiosity, resulting in many points of contact between the world of music and other disciplines, including science, film, and theater.

Mr. Gandolfi has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commission grants, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission, Massachusetts Cultural Council Composer Fellowship, the 2009 Grammy Award nomination for ‘Best Classical Contemporary Composition,’ for his The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, the 2013 Sousa/Oswald Award for Band, two Fromm Foundation Grants, a Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra league Music Alive residency, and a 2013 Composers Award from the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, among others.