Mark Alburger

Mark Alburger

Mark Alburger (born April 2, 1957, Upper Darby, PA) is a San Francisco Bay Area composer and conductor. He is the founder and music director of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, as well as the music director of the San Francisco Cabaret Opera.[1] Alburger is also the editor-publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal,[2] which he founded in 1994 as 20th-Century Music.[3]

Biography

Alburger studied composition with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College, and with Jules Langert at the Dominican University of California, and with Roland Jackson, Thomas Flaherty, and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Musicology in 1996. He also studied privately thereafter with Terry Riley. Alburger is best known for his use of troping techniques, combining structures and musical passages from a wide variety of pre-existing works across cultures and eras.[4] He has a large opus list, including many concerti, operas, song cycles, symphonies, and a ten-hour theatrical setting of the Bible.[5]

As a music journalist, he has published interviews with many notable composers across the new music scene, including Henry Brant, Earle Brown, George Crumb, Anthony Davis, Paul Dresher, Philip Glass, Ali Akbar Khan, Joan La Barbara, Steve Mackey, Tod Machover, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Erling Wold, Christian Wolff, and Pamela Z, and is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of American Music.[6]

Dr. Alburger currently resides in northern California with his partner Harriet March Page, a mezzo-soprano and artistic director of San Francisco Cabaret Opera.[7]

References

  1. ^ [1] San Francisco Cabaret Opera website.
  2. ^ [2] 21st-Century Music Journal website.
  3. ^ Music Library Association Notes, Volume 52, No. 4, page 1230.
  4. ^ [3] San Francisco Classical Voice Interview with Jeff Dunn.
  5. ^ [4] List of works.
  6. ^ [5] 21st-Century Music Journal website.
  7. ^ [6] Mark Alburger personal website.

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