James Mobberley


James C. Mobberley is an American composer, music teacher and guitarist.

Biography

James Mobberley is an American composer of contemporary
concert music, and is Curators' Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, home to one of the largest
and best known in the U.S. A Rome Prize winner,
Guggenheim Fellow and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award recipient, he writes music that spans many media, from orchestra and
electro-acoustic music to music for dance, film, and video. His works have
received over 1400 performances worldwide.
Commissions: Fromm Foundation at Harvard University,
Koussevitzky Foundation/Library of Congress, Barlow Endowment, Meet the
Composer, Chamber Music America, National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous
ensembles and individual performers.
Selected as a 2009 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Center,
he has also been a Resident Composer with the Kansas City Symphony,
and a Visiting Composer with both the Taiwan National Symphony and the
Fort Smith Symphony.
Awards: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American
Academy in Rome Fellow in Composition, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowship, and awards from League-ISCM, the Van Cliburn Foundation,
the Shanghai Spring Festival, and numerous other organizations.
He has served on professional panels and nominating
committees for organizations that include the American Academy in Rome, the
Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Fulbright Fellowships, New Music USA, the
MacDowell Colony, the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the
McKnight Foundation, I-Park, the Fisher Competition and the Missouri Arts
Council.
Two dozen recordings feature his music, including the Black
Canyon, Bridge, Capstone, Centaur, Everglade, and Troppa Note labels, as well
as an all-Mobberley recording on the Albany label recorded by the Czech
National Symphony. Most of his music can be heard on
.
His music is primarily self-distributed, with additional
publications by Roger Dean, and Edipan. Mobberley maintains a web site at .

Compositions

Source:

Works for orchestra

  • 2009 Grand Jetè
  • 2000 Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
  • 1996 Arena
  • 2012 Arena
  • 1996 Concerto For Marimba and Orchestra
  • 1994 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
  • 1992 Deja Voyages
  • 1981 Synthesis
  • 1979 Aquaria

    Works for string orchestra

  • 2009 Launch Pad
  • 2006 Time Trial
  • 2003 Harmonic Dreams
  • 1995 Fantasia Parachicos

    Works for band

  • 2013 A Crowd of Stars
  • 2012 Fantasy in Earth Tones
  • 2012 EllenSong
  • 2010 Ascension
  • 2009 Night Waves
  • 2008 Words of Love
  • 2000 Fanfare: Many Voices, One Future
  • 1998 Edges
  • 1998 Concerto For Marimba and Wind Ensemble
  • 1995 The Billion Man Fanfare
  • 1991 The Ceremony of Innocence
  • 1988 Ascension

    Musical theater

  • 2000 Incidental Music and Songs for Iceman: A New Play for the Millennium – text:

    Choral music

  • 2013 A Crowd of Stars
  • 2002 At Play in the Fields of the Mind for SATB Chorus
  • 2001-02 Haiku of Haiku for SATB Chorus
  • 1999 4 French Songs
  • 1996 Poem to Ease Birth
  • 1991 The Ceremony of Innocence
  • 1989 Lullaby

    Solo and chamber music

  • 2015 Janus, Reflecting
  • 2015 Triathlon
  • 2014 Respiri
  • 2013 Subject to Change Without Notice
  • 2011 Capricious Invariance
  • 2007 Phenomena
  • 2007 Phenomenon
  • 2004/rev. 2013 FUSEBOX
  • 2003 Vox Inhumana for soprano, 7 instruments and electronics
  • 2002 Balancing Act for erhu or violin, and ‘cello
  • 2001 Souvenirs for Chinese flute, erhu, pipa, zheng, and perc
  • 2001 Unexpected Voices
  • 2000 Voices: In Memoriam
  • 2000 Dim Sum
  • 2000 North Coast Cool
  • 2000 Give ‘em Hell!
  • 2000 Shebam
  • 1999 Two Studies in Perpetual Motion
  • 1999 A Hint of Mischief
  • 1999 Elegy for Littleton, Colorado
  • 1997 Trelugue, Peccatas, and Feuds
  • 1992 Toccatas and Interludes
  • 1990 On Thin Ice
  • 1988 Songs of Native North America
  • 1987 Cyclescape

    Soloists with electronic playback

  • 2015 The Unpurged Images of the Day
  • 2011 Once Again to the Light
  • 2007 Phenomena
  • 2006 Alter Ego
  • 2007 Voices: In Memoriam
  • 1994-97 Icarus Wept
  • 1994 TNT
  • 1992 Into The Maelstrom
  • 1991 Spontaneous Combustion
  • 1990 In Bocca al Lupo
  • 1989 Soggiorno
  • 1989 Critical Mass
  • 1987 Caution to the Winds
  • 1986 BEAMS!
  • 1985 Going With the Fire
  • 1982 A Plurality of One

    Electronic playback alone or with actor

  • 1982 A Plurality of One
  • 2010 Playing Fields
  • 2005 Vox Metallica
  • 2000 Study for Vox Inhumana
  • 1988 Aspenglow
  • 1987 Dialogue
  • 1978 Earth Tones

    Publications

  • with Earl Henry: Musicianship: ear training, rhythmic reading, and sight singing, Volume 1, Prentice-Hall, 1986. 306 p.,