Gregory Wanamaker

composer

new disc

Glint features Timothy McAllister’s definitive recording of my Duo Sonata with Robert Spring.

“An impressive and rewarding unaccompanied work” – – Philip Sinder referring to TubaSuite in the Guide to the Tuba Repertoire: The New Tuba Source Book ©2006 Indiana University Press.

biography

Gregory Wanamaker’s music explores and extends unique timbral qualities of instruments and voices while maintaining lyric and dramatic characteristics commonly associated with works of earlier eras and contemporary popular music. The winner of numerous awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; National Association of Composers, USA; and Britten-on-the-Bay; Wanamaker's music has been commissioned and performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Asia by performers including the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Trujillo Symphony Orchestra, The MAVerick Ensemble, The West Point Saxophone Quartet, The Gregg Smith Singers, Timothy McAllister, Robert Spring, Deborah Bish, Ensemble Radieuse, Noah Getz, and Lynn McGrath.

Recent premieres and other performances include such prestigious venues as the Niksic Guitar Festival in Montenegro; Festival de Inverno de Vale Veneto, Brazil; Festival Internacional Bach in Trujillo, Peru; World Saxophone Conferences in Ljublijana, Minneapolis, and Montreal; and the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFests in Atlanta and Vancouver. In demand as a composer of solo and chamber music, Wanamaker has several recorded works on the Albany, Innova, Summit, Mark Custom and KCM labels.

Wanamaker has also served as the Composer-In-Residence at the 12th and 13th International Bach Festival in Trujillo, Peru in 2005 and 2006, and at the 2005 American University Saxophone Symposium.

Wanamaker is currently Professor of Composition and Theory at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam.

His principal composition teachers were Ladislav Kubík, William Averitt, and Thomas Albert.