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David Dzubay was born in Minneapolis and raised in Portland, Oregon. His degrees in composition and trumpet performance have all been earned at Indiana University. His principal teachers have been Donald Erb, Frederick Fox, Eugene O?Brien, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Allan Dean and Bernard Adelstein.
Dzubay's music has been performed in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by more than thirty orchestras. His music is published by Pro Nova Music, Dorn, and Thompson Editions and is recorded on the Centaur, innova, First Edition and Indiana University labels.
Formerly on the faculty of the University of North Texas, Dzubay is currently Associate Professor of Music at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, where he teaches composition and directs the New Music Ensemble. His conducting experiences include the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals, and at Disney World. He has also conducted the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Voices of Change, an ensemble from the Minnesota Orchestra and strings from the Louisville Orchestra. From 1995-98 he served as Composer-Consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra, helping run their "Perfect-Pitch" reading sessions for works by Minnesota composers.
Along with his wife, clarinetist Tasha Dzubay, and children, Laura and Paul, David Dzubay makes his home in Bloomington, Indiana, where in addition to composing and teaching, he enjoys tennis, (endless) home improvement, and welding.
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Northwest Passages presents two compositions in parallel. One of these, a series of five movements for instruments and narrator, follows the western course of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, beginning at the departure from Saint Louis in May 1804 and ending with the arrival at the Pacific Ocean in November 1805. The narrator recites excerpts from the Corps of Discovery's journals, focusing on a few landmark events from the journey. In the score, these movements are called 'portages,' as they serve to link from one to the next of five choral songs comprising the other composition, which in fact can be performed along under the title Five Dream Songs. The songs are settings of Native American song texts, and present a counterpoint to the narrative of the expedition. Alongside the songs the narrator recites excerpts from Chief Seattle's oft-repeated speech of 1854, creating another counterpoint in this work representing in some way a passage of two peoples.
Visit David Dzubay's website for more about this piece and his other works.
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Portland, OR
The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached its terminus in Oregon, so it’s only fitting that the Portland project honor the expedition and its bicentennial. To mark the occasion, fEARnoMUSIC chamber ensemble will work with the composer in the creation of a new work to be performed around the state.
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