Richard Festinger

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Richard Festinger (born 1 March 1948) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, pianist and educator. Festinger was born in Newton, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. in Music, Magna Cum Laude, from San Francisco State University, and his Ph.D. in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding director of Earplay, a new chamber music ensemble based in the Bay Area. He has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, Camargo Foundation, Cité Internationale des Arts, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the Ligurian Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Almeria, Spain, Ucross Foundation Centre International d’Accueil et d’Échanges des Récollets, the Aaron Copland House, the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He was commissioned by the Fromm Foundation in 2003 [1] to compose his work Hidden Spring for the Cygnus Ensemble. Also in 2003 Works and Process at the Guggenheim commissioned and premiered his settings of poet/author Denis Johnson, The Coming of Age with Amy Burton, soprano and The Group for Contemporary Music conducted by Bradley Lubman.[2] In 2009 pianist Marilyn Nonken toured with Festinger's large scale piano solo, Le Pianiste.[3] Early in his career Festinger played guitar and toured with folk singer Joan Baez including a performance at Woodstock.[4] Shortly afterwards, intent on pu

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Then and Now: Chamber Music of Richard Festinger

Festinger: Diary of a Journey

Festinger: Chamber Works

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Richard Festinger: Tapestries and Other Works

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The Way Things Go

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Here Comes Everybody

H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)

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Naxos March 2014 New Release Sampler

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Richard Festinger: Works

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New Millennium Ensemble: H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)

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New Millenium Ensemble: H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)

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