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Schocker, Edward (b. 1971, Detroit, Michigan). American composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and North America.
Mr. Schocker studied composition with James Hartway and piano with Rob Conway at Wayne State University from 1993–96 and composition with Alvin Curran at Mills College in 1997–98 and with Pauline Oliveros there from 1997–2000. He also studied composition privately with Paul Barker in London in 1996 and twice attended Dartington, where he studied the gamelan orchestra and tunings with Lou Harrison in 1996 and film scoring with Daryl Runswick in 1998.
He has received numerous awards, including the Gil Sirotti Memorial Scholarship (1996), two Mills Residence awards (1997, 1999), the Hattie M. Strong Foundation Fellowship (1999), an ASCAP Plus Award (2002–05), and a Meet the Composer Fund Award (2003). More recently, he received the United States of America Federal Assistance Award (2004) and the JUSFC/NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship (2006, for a residency and research in Japan). He served as composer-in-residence to the European Dance Development Centre in Düsseldorf in 2000–01 and the St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco in 2002. His music has been performed in Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Japan, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Taiwan, the UK, and the USA.
Mr. Schocker is also active in other positions. He co-founded the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival in 1998 and has since served as its director. He is also active as an improvisational musician. His writings include the book Just Intonation for Nonfixed-Pitch Instruments, Vol. 1: Trombone (1999–2000, self-published).
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: edward@jacksonpine.com
Street address: Mr. Edward Schocker, PO Box 9826, Oakland, CA 94613, USA
Website: http://www.edwardschocker.com/
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Twenty + 4 (opera/music theatre work, libretto by Judy Halebsky), 5 mixed voices, 5 dancers, 5 electric guitars, 1997–98; Banana Seat Low Rider (text by Judy Halebsky), mixed chorus, dancer, trombone, 1998; Since They Forced Me (UP ON AN ELEPHANT'S-BACK), dancer, musical glasses (1 player), 1999; The Stones I Threw Yesterday, mixed chorus, dancer, made instruments (3 players), 1999; Obong-san, voice, dancer, musical glasses (1 player), 1999; Sous le sable, dancer, flute, musical glasses (1 player), 2000; Eve, dancers, made/found instruments (4 players), 2000; Mudwings, 3 performance artists, tape, 2001; Sessantadue, performance artist, tape, 2001; The Big Bang (text by Judy Halebsky), mixed chorus, made instruments (2 players), 2003; Wind Dharma, musical glasses (1 player), live text images (by Judy Halebsky), 2003
ORCHESTRAL: Tapestry, 6 percussion, string orchestra, 1995; Suling Manus, suling (flute), gamelan orchestra, 1996; Kusu Mastra, gamelan orchestra, 1997; The End of Certainty, percussion, string orchestra, 1996–98; Global Symphony, 18 ensembles (variable total number of players), 1998; The Hill, string orchestra, 1998; Untuk Sahabat Tercinta (in memoriam Bill Colvig), gamelan orchestra, 1999
CHAMBER MUSIC: Marimba Music, marimba, 1994; Dissension, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1995; 1971, any 7 players, 1996; Fish Wife, any 8 players, 1996; WEN, 2 violins, 1996–97; GRO, flute, viola, 1997; POO: 32 variations on a theme of Andrew Lloyd Webber, any player, 1997; ONE, any 2 strings, 1997; TAP, 2 percussion, 1997; et cetEra, 2 electric guitars, 1997; Are, viola, 1997; I have Five Things to Say, made instruments (6 players), 1998; MEG, soprano saxophone, trombone, piano, accordion, 1999; Spots 1-6, bass clarinet, 1999; Litosts, bass clarinet, trombone, 1999; Après la pluie…, cello, 1999; FOUR, any 4 players, 1999; Renewable Energy, clarinet, trombone, violin, viola, piano, percussion, 2000; Death of an Optimist, made/found instruments (4 players), 2000; Rustbelt, made/found instruments (4 players), 2001; Dodecachordon I-VI, any number of electric guitars (with e-bows), 2001–02; Sleeping Dream, made/found instruments (2 players), 2002; Shared Echoes, made/found instruments (any number of players), 2004; Tuesday, March 14, 2002, violin, cello, piano, 2005; Netori 1-4, 2 electric guitars (with e-bows), 2006; Hymn for Lou and Bill, any 2 players, 2006
CHORAL: Beatus Vir, soprano, baritone, mixed chorus, flute, 1995; Kyrie, mixed chorus, 1995; For Tonight I am Blind (text by Jennifer Jurewicz), mixed chorus, 1995; Ave Maria, tenor, mixed chorus, 1995; Psalm 62, bass, mixed chorus, organ, 1996; Ave Verum Corpus, mixed chorus, oboe, bassoon, 1996; Salve Regina, mixed chorus, 2001; Ave Regina, mixed chorus, 2001; Take, Lord, and Receive (text by St. Ignatius), mixed chorus, 2002; Vox Clamantis, mixed chorus, 2002; Long, Too Long, America (text by Walt Whitman), mixed chorus, 2005
VOCAL: The Lamb (text by William Blake), soprano, 1995; Salvator Mundi, baritone, 1996; Tintinnabuli (vocalise), soprano/tenor, alto/bass, flute, oboe, string orchestra, 1996; Ethel's 7 Percent (text by Janet Holgrum), voice, 2 typewriters, 1998; Festival (text by Max Ernst), soprano/tenor, alto/bass, 1998
PIANO: For Jenn, 1995; Aptos, prepared piano, 1997; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1999
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Technology is Good, tape, 1998; Volcano, trombone, tape, 1999; Berührungspunkte, tape, 1999; Blesch, tape, 2000; Wind Dharma 2, tape, 2004
MULTIMEDIA: Triptych (text by Judy Halebsky), voice, dancer, guitar, slide projections, 1997; Within the Walls, dancer, tape, film (by Ching-fang Chiang), 2001–02
ARRANGEMENTS: Phantom (Sergey Prokofiev), orchestra, 1995; Metamorphosis (Philip Glass), orchestra, 1995; Choral (Béla Bartók), small orchestra, 1997; Spiegel im Spiegel (Arvo Pärt), guitar, 1997
(Last updated on May 31, 2006)
