Glenn Stallcop
Featured
on New Music Arizona
Concert, June
14, 2009, 3:00 PM
Glenn Stallcop
(
www.stallcop.com)
has had a distinguished career as a composer, double
bassist, and pianist. He has lived in Arizona
since becoming a double bassist with the Phoenix
Symphony in 1973. The PSO has performed nine
different works of his over the last 30 years.
His many works for double bass are performed
around the country, and his
Vision Quest won
the 2004 David Walter Composition prize from the
International Society of Bassists. As a pianist,
he performs his own works and is especially active in
free improvisation. He was nominated for a
Grammy for his solo piano improvisation CD,
Dreamcatcher in 1998. He founded and
directed the Arizona Composers Forum from 1983-89, and
was awarded the Performing Arts Fellowship in
Composition from the Arizona Commission on the Arts in
1995.
