James Mobberley is an American composer of contemporary
concert music, and serves as Curators' Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, home to one of the largest
and best known music composition programs in the U.S.[1] A Rome Prize winner,
Guggenheim Fellow and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award recipient, 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 1400 performances worldwide.[2]
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 (1992-1999),
and a Visiting Composer with both the Taiwan National Symphony (1999) and the
Fort Smith Symphony (2000).[3]
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.[4]
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
https://www.soundcloud.com/jim-mobberley.
His music is primarily self-distributed, with additional
publications by Roger Dean, and Edipan (Rome). Mobberley maintains a web site at http://www.jamesmobberleymusic.com.
1999 Two Studies in Perpetual Motion (fl, cl, vln, vc, pno) [11']
1999 A Hint of Mischief (fl, cl, alto sax, vln, vc, perc, pno) [8']
1999 Elegy for Littleton, Colorado (cl, vln, vc) [5']
1997 Trelugue, Peccatas, and Feuds (organ solo) [12']
1992 Toccatas and Interludes (fl/cl/vln/vc/pno/perc) [14']
1990 On Thin Ice (tuba/euphonium ensemble, 9 parts) [6']
1988 Songs of Native North America (sop/ten/8 instruments) [17']
1987 Cyclescape (solo guitar) [5']
Soloists with electronic playback
2015 The Unpurged Images of the Day (trb, piano, fixed media) [15']
2011 Once Again to the Light (alto saxophone and fixed media)[9']
2007 Phenomena (piano solo; some movements with CD) [21']
2006 Alter Ego (‘cello and CD) [13']
2007 Voices: In Memoriam (version for piano with electronics) [8']
1994-97 Icarus Wept (trumpet and tape or trumpet, organ, and tape) [18']
1994 TNT [Turetzky’n’tape] (contrabass and tape) [10']
1992 Into The Maelstrom (piano and tape) [6']
1991 Spontaneous Combustion (saxes and tape) [10']
1990 In Bocca al Lupo (violin and tape) [8']
1989 Soggiorno (violin and tape) [10']
1989 Critical Mass (organ and tape) [5']
1987 Caution to the Winds (piano and tape) [6']
1986 BEAMS! (trombone and tape) [8']
1985 Going With the Fire (flute and tape) [7']
1982 A Plurality of One (clarinet and tape) [15']
Electronic playback alone or with actor
1982 A Plurality of One (clarinet and tape) [15']
2010 Playing Fields (CD alone; installation) [50']
2005 Vox Metallica (CD alone) [8']
2000 Study for Vox Inhumana (CD alone) [4']
1988 Aspenglow (tape alone) [5']
1987 Dialogue (performer/actor and computer) [15']
1978 Earth Tones (tape alone) [8']
Publications
with Earl Henry: Musicianship: ear training, rhythmic reading, and sight singing, Volume 1, Prentice-Hall, 1986. 306 p., ISBN978-0-136-08563-8
Bibliography
Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan: Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens, 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN3-923058-07-1
David M. Cummings, Dennis K. McIntire: International who's who in music and musician's directory – (in the classical and light classical fields), Twelfth edition 1990/91, Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1991. 1096 p., ISBN0-948875-20-8
