In 2001, Groupé composed and orchestrated music in a collaboration with the Britishprogressive rock band Yes for their Magnification album. He also toured with Yes and conducted a 60-piece orchestra as part of their promotional tour for the album, Yessymphonic.[4]
Education and career
Groupé is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, and was the recipient of the ASCAP award for student composers. He received a Masters in Music Composition at the University of California, San Diego where he studied with Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, Toru Takemitsu. He also studied computer generated music at Stanford with John Chowning and Leland Smith.
Groupé has composed, conducted and produced over 80 CD recordings. His music has been performed by a number of symphony orchestras, including Water Unfolding, a fantasy for orchestra commissioned by the San Diego Symphony, and Menagerie, a suite for solo organ, commissioned by the Spreckels Organ Society for its 85th birthday.[5][6]
Beginning in the Fall of 2016, Groupé became adjunct professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music specializing in scoring for visual media.