Bern Herbolsheimer
Introduction '''Bern Herbolsheimer''' (September 2, 1948 – January 13, 2016) was an American composer.
Biography Bern Herbolsheimer received recognition throughout the United States and Europe for over 500 works ranging from ballet to symphonic, operatic, chamber and choral works. His numerous major commissions and premieres included ballets for the Frankfurt Ballet, the Atlanta Ballet, the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Eugene Ballet. His first opera, ''Aria da Capo'', won first prize in the National Opera Association's New Opera Competition. ''Mark Me Twain,'' his second opera, was commissioned and premiered in 1993 by the Nevada Opera for its Silver Anniversary season. "The opera is filled with attractive, dramatic, often eloquent music ... it could become an American work of genuine significance. "His Symphony No. 1 was premiered by the Florida Symphony under conductor Kenneth Jean. Other orchestral music was premiered by the Seattle Symphony, Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and Music Today in New York under the direction of Gerard Schwarz. His vocal and choral works were performed in Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, South America, Canada, Norway, Russia, Hungary, Japan, and throughout the United States. According to the Seattle Weekly, who named him as Best (Classical) Composer in 2005, "no Seattle composer has a more assured and polished craft than Herbolsheimer. His choral writing — and there's a lot of it — is luminous and subtle".His final premieres were his chamber opera ''The Quartet'' at Carnegie Hall and ''Gold and Silver'' in Steven Soderbergh's HBO hit series The Knick. He passed away shortly before the UK premiere of his Seven Last Words performed by The Willow Concert in 2017.A frequent award winner, Herbolsheimer was Seattle Artist-in-Residence (Seattle Arts Commission), Washington State Composer of the Year (WSMTA), and winner of the Melodious Accord Choral Music Competition (''Te Deum''), in addition to the National Opera Association's New Opera Competition (''Aria da Capo''). He was also the recipient of composition commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts (Symphony No. 1), Chamber Music America (''Tanguy Music''), the Seattle Symphony (''In Mysterium Tremendum''), and from numerous local organizations such as Seattle Men's Chorus, Seattle Choral Company, St. James Cathedral, Opus 7, Seattle Pro Musica, the Esoterics and the Cascadian Chorale. His works appear on dozen of CDs.As pianist, Herbolsheimer accompanied at the Bergen International Music Festival, the Schloss Elmau Festival, and on concert series for Columbia Artists, Saint Martin's Abbey, the Spanish Institute, the Goethe Institute, the American Opera Festival of the Sierra, Estoril/Cascais Concerts in Portugal, the Tatarstan Opera in Kazan, Battelle Institute, the Ojai Music Festival, and regularly in the Western Washington area.Herbolsheimer served on the music faculty of Seattle's Cornish College, where he taught composition-related classes and held a private studio, and the University of Washington, where he taught graduate classes in the voice program. At the end of the 2000–2001 school year he was selected as the Outstanding Teacher of Music at Cornish College.He is a Northwest composer and is a member of BMI.Herbolsheimer died at his home in Seattle on January 13, 2016.
Discography  Let Us Sing Sweet Songs David Mourns for Absalom THE VISITATION OF THE PRIORY OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL WITHOUT STAMFORD Ashik Dances Before His Love Te Deum O Lord, save thy people Seven Last Words Kader kiç Love letters Love letters Botanas As Water Ascends to a Cloud Silly Shepherds Stop Your Sleeping / WSeven Last Words
Partial list of works  Composition  Genre  Year  Notes Symphony #1 Orchestral   Mark Me Twain  Opera  1993  Aria Da Capo  Opera   4 instruments Childsplay  Chamber  2004  4 instruments Stille Nacht  Choral  2004  SATB Once in Royal David's City  Choral   SATB The Visitation ...  Vocal   O Lord, Increase My Faith  Choral   SATBs In Mysterium Tremendum  Chamber   Kader kiç  Choral  2005  Lady in Waiting  Vocal   Love Letters  Choral  2005  Childsworld  Chamber  2006  As Water Ascends to a Cloud  Choral  2006  By the Waters of Babylon  Choral  2006  Box Ek T'Ho  Instrumental  2007  Dos Suenos  Choral  2008  SATB & Chamber Orchestra La Pitaya  Choral  2007  Musicians Wrestle Everywhere  Choral  2007
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