Discipline: Music Composition

Virgil Moorefield

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Evanston, IL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2005
More: www.virgilmoorefield.com
Virgil Moorefield is a composer, intermedia artist, author, and drummer. CDs of his composer-led ensembles include No Business As Usual, published together with a DVD, Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound (Hinterzimmer, 2013); Things You Must Do to Get to Heaven (Innova, 2007), The Temperature in Hell is Over 3,000 Degrees (Tzadik, 1997), and Distractions On the Way To the King's Party (Cuneiform, 1994). The Virgil Moorefield Bicontinental Pocket Orchestra has performed throughout Europe and the U.S., including the Inventing America Festival at London's Barbican Hall, and the Bang on a Can Marathon at Lincoln Center. Moorefield's concert-length intermedia work, Five Ideas About the Relation of Sight and Sound (2008-2011), has been presented at festivals in the United States, Canada, Ireland, and Chile, and performed in concerts in Berlin and New York City, among others. A collaborative intermedia work, Chicago Union Station (2004), has been shown around the world. His work has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Commissioning Music USA, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Moorefield's commissions include the Bang on a Can All-Stars, New Music Detroit, and Tage für Neue Musik, Zürich. His orchestral work Blanqui was performed by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble in Brooklyn.

Studios

Irving Fine

Virgil Moorefield 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…

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