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Dr. Russell Riepe, Professor and
Coordinator of Music Composition Programs, Founder and
Director of the Texas Mysterium for Modern Music, and
Director of Graduate Music Studies at Southwest Texas State
University, is a long-standing member (a Fellow since 1967)
of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He studied under the
renown pedagogue, Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, and in 1972 earned
his Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Eastman School of
Music of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York,
where he also won the Howard Hanson Prize for his work,
Symphonic Fantasy. Under the aegis of Rotary International,
he toured Japan in 1978 as a representative of American
artists, subsequently returning as guest speaker at several
cities in the Yamaguchi Prefecture. At the request of the
Ministry of Culture, he visited music conservatories as a
consultant throughout the People's Republic of China in
1988.
After a two-year teaching
sabbatical as Senior Lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist
University, where he also oversaw the development of the
Hong Kong Electronic/Computer Music Centre, he resumed in
the fall of 1989 his Professorship at Southwest Texas State
University. He has also lectured in Europe at the Trinity
College of Music, London, where as pianist he accompanied
the premiere performance of his composition, Lacrimosa for
Clarinet and Piano, spring, 1994. Under his direction, the
Texas Mysterium for Modern Music spent a week in residence
in Blonay, Switzerland, the summer of 1994 at the invitation
of the Paul Hindemith Foundation, from where his new music
ensemble conducted a concert tour in Switzerland, Germany,
and Austria, including the Innsbruck Conservatory of Music.
He has since featured his
most recent American electronic-computer music and solo
piano pieces in a series of lecture-recitals at the Moscow
State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia (1997); Northern College,
Aberdeen, Scotland; and the University of Silesia, Cieszyn,
Poland (1998). Dr. Riepe is a member of the American Society
of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). His published
works include articles, musical arrangements, and original
compositions which are internationally performed and
recorded. One of his pieces, Three Studies in Flight, is
part of the standard international clarinet repertoire.
Moreover, his music has received favorable reviews in The
New York Times, Gramophone, Brass Bulletin, The
Instrumentalist, as well as in other periodicals and books.
Although his career is principally devoted to composition
and teaching, as a pianist he has also appeared at Carnegie
Hall and at the Lincoln Center, New York City, and recorded
in ensembles for Deutsche Grammophon and Columbia Records.
He is a recipient of the Presidential Seminar Award for
excellence in scholarship at Southwest Texas State
University. For his distinction and service to his students
and profession, Dr. Riepe is listed in the Who's Who of
American Teachers as well as in the International Who's Who
in Music, Cambridge, England. |
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