David Salvage

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David Salvage (b. 1978; Boston, MA) began playing the piano at age 4 and composing music at age 7. His composition studies were intermittent until he enrolled in Harvard University in 1997. Before then, he studied piano with Peter Takacs at Oberlin and Miyoko Lotto. He was one of the first group of young pianists selected to participate in the Perlman Music Program (1995, 1996).

In 1997 he was the National Champion in the High School Division of the MTNA Composition Competition and was a finalist in the piano performance division the same year. At Harvard he studied composition with David Lewin and Bernard Rands. An active force in the new music scene, he was President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble and inaugurated an ongoing project of producing student-written chamber operas on campus. He was also a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and a student representative to the Music Faculty. He graduated Magna cum laude with a citation in Germanic Languages and Literatures. He also won the Bach Society Orchestra Composition Competition and the Louise Donovan Award for contribution to undergraduate theater.

After graduating in 2001, he enrolled in the Masters program at Manhattan School of Music as a student of Richard Danielpour. While at Manhattan, he was selected to participate in a workshop for singers and composers hosted by the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florence, Italy. In addition, he spent two summers (2000, 2002) studying at the Conservatoire Americain in Fontainebleau, France. His teachers there were Andre Bon, Marco Stroppa, and Allain Gaussin. He also undertook counterpoint studies with Isabelle Duha.

Upon receiving his Master of Music in Composition in 2003, he spent a year clerking in the classical department at Tower Records Lincoln Center. There he met Sequenza21 publisher Duane Grant who invited him to write for the website. He is now the Managing Editor of Sequenza21 and reviews concerts and CDs regularly for the site.

Currently a PhD student at the City University of New York, he teaches theory, ear training, composition, and orchestration at Brooklyn College. Recent premieres include "Granville Reminiscence" for the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra and "Azure Window" for the Cygnus Ensemble. Upcoming premieres include works for unaccompanied baritone and string quartet.

Major Works

Orchestral:

Granville Reminiscence (2005)

Episodes (2003)

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2001)

Vocal:

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-- text: Kevin Davies
-- unaccompanied baritone

Rossetti Songbook
-- mezzo soprano and piano

Before the Law
-- libretto: adapted by the composer from "Vor dem Gesetz" by Franz Kafka -- chamber opera, two baritones

Chamber:

Pieces for Violin, Cello, and Piano (2003)

External links

Listening

Four Ascensions for Clarinet, Cello and Piano Download Listen
Quotations for Piano Download Listen
Granville Reminiscence for Narrator and Orchestra Download Listen
Rossetti Song Book for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano Download Listen