David T. Little

From Sequenza21/NetNewMusic Wiki

Composer/Performer David T. Little, (b. 1978, New Jersey), is a two-time BMI Student Composer Award Winner (2002 for hope in the proles and 2004 for Piano Trio) Little’s composition Screamer! was chosen as the winner of the 2004 Jacob Druckman Award for Orchestral Composition from the Aspen Music Festival, where Little was a Schumann Fellow during the summer of 2003. He is a 2003 recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and served as the 2001 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center. Most recently, Little was awarded the 2005 Harvey Gaul Prize from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Percussion Performance, Little holds a Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His primary teachers have included William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty, and Osvaldo Golijov. He is currently a PhD candidate at Princeton University.

Little’s music has been heard at: The Saxonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dresden; the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Fest; the 2004 Montreal Fringe Fest; La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; Strasbourg, France; Tanglewood; Aspen; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival; the Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC; Joyce SoHo, NYC; and at Susquehanna University, SUNY Albany, The Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Michigan, MIT, Harvard, and Princeton and has been performed by ensembles such as Non-Zero, the Amelia Piano Trio and eighth blackbird. In 2004, Marin Alsop conducted the West Coast premiere of Little’s orchestral work Screamer! at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where Little served as Composer-In-Residence.

Performances this season include those by the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the University of Michigan Symphony Band, and Newspeak. For more information, see: http://www.DavidTLittle.com/