Paul Hembree, composer

Composer Paul Hembree (b. 1982) returned to his native state in 2006 to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder . At CU, Hembree is both the production manager of the Pendulum New Music series and a graduate teaching assistant in the music technology department. In 2006/07 he studied acoustic composition with Daniel Kellogg , electro-acoustic composition with Michael Theodore , and he currently studies acoustic composition with Carter Pann .Hembree earned his Bachelor of Music in Composition, magna cum laude, from the University of Oregon , where in 2005 he co-founded the contemporary music-focused New Frontiers Chamber Symphony . At UO he studied acoustic composition with Robert Kyr , David Crumb , and Terry McQuilkin , electro-acoustic composition with Jeffrey Stolet .In summer festivals and master classes Hembree has presented works for composers Martin Bresnick , Mark Anthony Turnage , Estonian composer Veljo Tormis , and Bang-on-a-Can pianist Lisa Moore . He has attended master classes with composers John Adams , John Corigliano , George Crumb , Krzysztof Penderecki , Osvaldo Golijov , Zygmunt Krauze , Fredrick Rzewski , Michael Nyman , Joel Hoffman , pianists Ursula Oppens and Robert Levin , and the Kronos Quartet .Recent ensembles to premiere Hembree’s works include the Playground , artists-in-residence at the Denver University Lamont School of Music , the Tasman String Quartet (New Zealand), the Arundo Winds (Colorado), Telling Stories (Colorado), and the woodwind duo Tartrazine (Oregon). Hembree’s works have been read by eighth blackbird , Fireworks (New York), and Cappella Romana (Oregon).Hembree was a finalist in the Music07 eighth blackbird composition competition, and was awarded CU’s 2007 Edward Levy Commissioning Prize and UO’s 2005 Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Work in Composition .His work has been heard in the New West Electronic Arts and Music Organization Festival , the Oregon Bach Festival , the MusicX Festival , the Pendulum New Music series , the Eugene Composers Collective, the Oregon Composers Forum, the Aspen Underground, Soundscapes by Mystery Cabal , and the Future Music Oregon series.Hembree has collaborated as an electro-acoustic performer on trumpet with San Francisco’s Carpetbag Brigade physical theater company, keyboard with the Boulder-based Invisible College Quartet, Hunter Ewen’s Gi•nt’s Eye, and on gangsa and rayong with the UO Pacific Rim and CU Balinese gamelan ensembles. Hembree currently studies Balinese gamelan with I Made Lasmawan .Voltage Controlled Passacaglia (2007)

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A performance of Voltage Controlled Passacaglia, for 1972 Moog synthesizer, four performers, eight-channel sound diffusion (using MAX/MSP), with live video projection of an attached oscilloscope (12’30”). Composed by Paul Hembree, with Steven Snowden, Christopher Rippey, and Curtis Peel (off screen) assisting. Recorded in the Alliance for Technology Learning & Society (ATLAS) black box theater at the University of Colorado, February 28th, 2007, on the inaugural Pendulum New Music ATLAS concert. Copyright 2007 Paul Hembree (ASCAP).Performed by the Playground, artists-in-residence at the Denver University Lamont School of Music, on the Pendulum New Music series. Grusin Hall, University of Colorado at Boulder, September 26, 2007.The Playground:Cheryl Gooden, flutes
Brian Ebert, clarinets
Angie Dombrowski, violin
Richard von Foerster, cello
Alix Corboy, piano
Jason Rodon, percussion
Jonathan Leathwood, conductor
Conrad Kehn, artistic directorCopyright 2007 Paul Hembree (ASCAP)