James Mobberley


James C. Mobberley is an American composer, music teacher and guitarist.

Biography

James Mobberley is an American composer of contemporary
concert music, and serves as Curators' Professor of Music at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, home to one of the largest
and best known in the U.S. A Rome Prize winner and
Guggenheim Fellow, he writes music that spans many media, from orchestra and
electro-acoustic music to music for dance, film, and video. His works have
received over 1300 performances worldwide.
Commissions: Fromm Foundation at Harvard University,
Koussevitzky Foundation/Library of Congress, Barlow Endowment, Meet the
Composer, Chamber Music America, National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous
ensembles and individual performers.
Selected as a 2009 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Center,
he has also been a Resident Composer with the Kansas City Symphony,
and a Visiting Composer with both the Taiwan National Symphony and the
Fort Smith Symphony.
Awards: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American
Academy in Rome Fellow in Composition, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowship, and awards from League-ISCM, the Van Cliburn Foundation,
the Shanghai Spring Festival, and numerous other organizations.
He has served on professional panels and nominating
committees for organizations that include the American Academy in Rome, the
Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Fulbright Fellowships, New Music USA, the
MacDowell Colony, the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the
McKnight Foundation, I-Park, the Fisher Competition and the Missouri Arts
Council.
Two dozen recordings feature his music, including the Black
Canyon, Bridge, Capstone, Centaur, Everglade, and Troppa Note labels, as well
as an all-Mobberley recording on the Albany label recorded by the Czech
National Symphony. Most of his music can be heard on
.
His music is primarily self-distributed, with additional
publications by Roger Dean, and Edipan. Mobberley maintains a web site at .

Compositions James Mobberley: Composer and Teacher website. List of works: Listening. http://jamesmobberleymusic.com/list-of-works-listening/ Accessed 5 Jan 2016.

Works for orchestra