Biography
Brendan Faegre (b. 1985, Portland, Oregon) is an internationally performed composer of orchestral and chamber works, whose music draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources including rock and jazz drumming, Hindustani Classical music, the music of Cuba and Brazil, and of course the many styles and traditions found in Western Classical music.Brendan's music has been featured at many festivals and conferences including the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, 2010 International Computer Music Conference, 2010 SCI Region VIII Conference, and the 2010 and 2006 SCI Student National Conferences. His music has been performed by the Luna Nova New Music Ensemble, members of Brave New Works, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Indiana University Concert Orchestra, and the Puget Sound Percussion Ensemble. Recent honors and awards include an American-Scandinavian Foundation Creative Arts Grant to support a year of composition studies in Norway, a fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival, a BMI Student Composer Award, 1st prize in the 2009 Beethoven Club Student Composition Contest, and the ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellowship to study at the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Brendan's life journey thus far has taken him through the roles of tabla disciple of Pandit Ramdas Palsule; private instructor of percussion, music theory, and composition; jazz ensemble coach; radio host; professional jazz drummer and symphonic percussionist; lecturer on Hindustani Classical music; Alaskan carpenter; and composition student and Associate Instructor of Music Theory at Indiana University. This versatile background has equipped him with many compositional tools to use while crafting his works. Fascinated by analogies between music and other artistic disciplines (carpentry included), Brendan is always pursuing a more diverse tool-belt, currently so through studying microtonal composition.
This Fall Brendan will begin studies with Lasse Thoresen at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He received his Master of Music from Indiana University, and his Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from the University of Puget Sound. He has studied composition with Don Freund, Claude Baker, Michael Gandolfi, Gregory Youtz, and Rob Hutchinson. He has studied electronic music with Jeffrey Hass and John Gibson, and percussion with Amy Putnam.
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