"And a select few have claimed the crown: composer is what they do for a living, and the rest of the time they just walk on the beach or play with their dogs or whatever. But there's this third category, composers whose day job is still pretty close to composer: these are the touring soloists, the studio musicians, the record producers, the conductors, the artistic directors, the principal cellists and clarinetists, the administrators, and so on."
"Good examples of this third category in Oregon would include, at a minimum: Fear No Music artistic director Kenji Bunch; Oregon Symphony principal cellist Nancy Ives; University of Oregon composition professor Robert Kyr; retired Reed College composition professor David Schiff; modernist-classical pianist Stephen Lewis; choral accompanist Naomi LaViolette; Sunriver Music Festival music director Brett Mitchell; Salem Philharmonia and Sunnyside Symphony conductor Jonathan DeBruyn; ChatterPDX's artistic director James Shields and communications manager Kimberly Osberg; Linfield University director of composition studies William Campbell; you get the idea."
"The greatest examples in modern American music more generally are, naturally, Leonard Bernstein and John Williams. Right there is where we find Giancarlo Castro D'Addona, the Venezuelan-born, El Sistema-trained, former trumpeter of the famous Gustavo Dudamel-led Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. For the last several years he's been an Oregonian, having moved here to work with Bravo Youth Orchestra in 2018. Since then he's composed several works for the big youth ensembles (Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic) as well as the august Oregon Symphon"
Most composers have day jobs such as cook, bartender, taxi driver, plumber, or insurance salesperson. A few make composing their full-time profession and spend leisure time away from musical labor. A third group holds music-adjacent roles as touring soloists, studio musicians, record producers, conductors, artistic directors, principal players, teachers, and administrators. Oregon practitioners of this model include Kenji Bunch, Nancy Ives, Robert Kyr, David Schiff, Stephen Lewis, Naomi LaViolette, Brett Mitchell, Jonathan DeBruyn, James Shields, Kimberly Osberg, and William Campbell. Giancarlo Castro D'Addona is Venezuelan-born, El Sistema-trained, a former Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra trumpeter who moved to Oregon in 2018 and has composed for major youth ensembles and the Oregon Symphony.
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