Bruce Reiprich
Theory Coordinator/Composition
Bruce.Reiprich@NAU.EDU
(928) 523-0116
Building 37, Room 233
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Education/Employment
After receiving B.M. and M.A. degrees in music theory from the Eastman School of Music, Bruce Reiprich attended the University of Iowa, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in music composition. Reiprich has also studied Schenkerian music theory privately with David Gagne, a co-author of The Analysis of Tonal Music; A Schenkerian Approach. A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Wilkes University, Reiprich joined the Northern Arizona University faculty in 1999 where he is coordinator of music theory and composition. In 2003, he received the Teacher-of-the-Year Award from the College of Fine Arts of NAU. He also serves as co-chair of Region VII of the Society of Composers, Inc. and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Living Music Foundation, Inc. He has been a judge for numerous composition contests including various Music Teachers National Association and Society of Composers' student competitions. During the summer, he is composer-in-residence at the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania.
Composition
Bruce Reiprich has received grants from Meet the Composer and the
Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program of the American Music
Center, and a fellowship from the Charles Ives Center for American
Music. In 1996, he was a finalist in the Tolly Guitar Composition Contest
sponsored by the Hartt School for his guitar trio, In
a Raindrop . . . the Moon. In 2005, he was awarded a water-topic grant from Northern
Arizona University for the composition of The River
Empties Into .
. . for soprano and orchestra. In 2006, Northern Arizona University
awarded him an intramural grant for the composition and CD recording
of . . . I lingered beside the hawthorns . . . by the Trio St. Germain
( New York City).
His music has been heard abroad with performances in China, Poland,
Germany, England, Turkey, and Mexico, and throughout the United States
in major cities such as new York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, St. Paul, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, and in numerous
radio broadcasts. International, national, and regional festival performances
include the International Contemporary Music Festival in Mexico City,
the Society of Composers National and Regional Conferences, the Cambridge
(England) Summer Recitals, the Chiron New Music Festival (New York),
the Eleventh Annual New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green State
University, the Dorflinger Wildflower Festival (Pennsylvania), the
University of Delaware Contemporary Music Festival, and the John Donald
Robb Composers' Symposium (New Mexico).
His chamber music has been performed by members and former members
of the Turkish State Opera, the Ankara State Opera, the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Halle, the San
Francisco Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
the Augusta Symphony, the Monterey Symphony, and the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
His music has been performed by Composers, Inc., Ensemble Talea, the
Society for New Music, the Civic Performers Innovative Music, the Soundings
Percussion Duo, the Quey Percussion Duo, the Caulkins Duo, the Trio
St. Germain, the Larson-Taylor-Allvin Trio, the Kithara Guitar Trio,,
the DaPonte String Quartet, the Lyric Consort, the Gregg Smith Singers,
the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, the Ives Chamber Orchestra,
the Bowling Green Philharmonia, the Singers' Guild of Scranton, the
Wyoming Valley Oratorio Society, and the Performing Arts Institute
Symphony Orchestra.
Music Theory Research
Bruce Reiprich's research on the music of György Ligeti has been published in Perspectives of New Music("Transformation of Coloration and Density in György Ligeti's Lontano") and delivered at a Midwest Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society. He presented his study of Toru Takemitsu's Garden Rain at the Music of Japan Today Symposium hosted by Hamilton College in 1992. In 2004, he was invited by the Martin Luther Universität/Halle Wittenberg in Halle, Germany, to give a series of introductory workshops on Schenkerian music theory. Most recently, he delivered a paper, "Voice-Leading and Harmonic Background in Toru Takemitsu's A Bird Came Down The Walk," to the Society of Composers National and Region V Conferences (2005), and the Music Theory SouthEast Conference (2007).