Ross Bauer is an American Composer and educator whose work has been performed all over the world. Bauer received degrees from New England Conservatory and Brandeis, studying under John Heiss, Martin Boykan, Arthur Berger, and Luciano Berio at Tanglewood. Bauer’s work has been performed and recorded by numerous ensembles, including the Radio Orchestras of Hilversum and Slovakia, the Alexander and Arianna Quartets, Speculum Musicae, the New York New Music Ensemble, Sequitur, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. He is the founder and former director of the Empyrean Ensemble at the University of California, Davis, and has received several accolades for his work including the Academy Award in Music and the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fromm Foundation Commissions, Barlow and Koussevitsky commissions, and a NEA Composition Fellowship. Bauer’s work has been published by the American Composers Alliance, and C.F. Peters of New York, and he has taught at Stanford and Brandeis. Bauer currently teaches as a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis.
Ross Bauer
Studios
Irving Fine
Ross Bauer worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…