David Glaser is Associate Professor of Music at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University where he has taught since 1996.David Glaser was born in New York and remembers at a very early age asking his parents to play some of the records they owned, especially Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, and Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. Although he played French horn in his junior high school band and studied classical guitar in high school, it wasn't until he heard Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire in college that he decided to pursue a career in music .He studied at Hunter College (B.A.), Queens College (M.A.) and Columbia University (D.M.A.). He has been the recipient of a CAP Grant and a Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Grant from the American Music Center, the Dr. Boris and Eda Rapoport Prize in Composition from Columbia University and Fellowships from MacDowell and Wellesley Composer's Conference. He received a 2007 Fromm Foundation commission to compose a work for Parthenia viol consort. In 2005 he received the Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters which described his work as "...subtly potent music of important potential.” His music is published by the Association for the Promotion of New Music of New Music. He is currently Vice-President of the United States section of the League of Composers/ISCM.His music has been commissioned by the New York New Music Ensemble, Parthenia, the Cygnus Ensemble, the Peconic Chamber Orchestra, Double Play Percussion Duo, the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and Glaux, the new music ensemble of Temple University and sopranos Susan Narucki, Judith Kellock, Linda Larson and Elizabeth Farnum
David Glaser
Studios
New Jersey
David Glaser worked in the New Jersey studio.
The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…