Glenn Stallcop
Featured on New
Music Arizona Concert, June 8, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
Glenn Stallcop (
www.stallcop.com), an
active and versatile composer, musician, and teacher,
was born in 1950 in Vancouver, Wash., and grew up in
Seattle. He received a bachelor’s of music degree from
the University of Washington in 1976 and a master’s
degree in music from Arizona State University in 1993,
where he was awarded Outstanding Graduate in Music
History, Theory, and Composition. He is a professional
double bassist with the Phoenix Symphony, and a
significant amount of his creative effort has been
spent on works which feature the double bass. He has
written works for double bass and orchestra, for solo
bass, bass with accompaniment, two sets of bass duets,
and several chamber music works. His orchestral works
have been performed by the Phoenix Symphony, the
Seattle Symphony, and several other professional,
college, festival and youth orchestras, and his
chamber works have been performed multiple times all
over Arizona. His 1998 CD of solo piano improvisation,
Dreamcatcher, received Grammy nominations in two
categories.
Stallcop became seriously interested in chamber music in
1980. Not only has he presented many chamber concerts, he
founded the Arizona Composers Forum and served as its
president and executive director for many years. He has
received many awards and honors, and he has served as a
music educator, both privately and at many schools and
colleges, since 1974. Stallcop is a member of AFM and BMI.
