Albert Glinsky
Composer Albert Glinsky has received critical praise for his music, which has been performed widely, and in such settings as the Aspen Music Festival, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wolf Trapp, and throughout Europe and the Far East. His works have been presented by dance companies across the U.S. and in Canada, including a three-season international tour of his ballet Flights with the Joffrey II Company. Glinsky has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Smithsonian Institution, the Jerome Foundation, the Astral Foundaion, the Alienor International Competition, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, among others. His works have been commissioned and performed by such ensembles as the Cavani Quartet, Relache, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the Biava Quartet, the Erie Philharmonic, and with conductors Walter Hendl, Eiji Oue and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. His music includes vocal, chamber, solo, electronic, and symphonic works, and is published by E.C. Schirmer, Hinshaw Press, and C.F. Peters, and recorded on the BMG Catalyst, RCA Red Seal, Centaur, Koch International Classics, and Leonore labels. Glinsky’s teachers have included Joan Tower and David Diamond, and he holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, and a Ph.D. from New York University. He has served on the faculty of Montclair State University, was BMI Composer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, has taught at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and was a Ucross Foundation Resident Artist in Wyoming. Currently, he is Professor of Music at Mercyhurst College. Glinsky has appeared on the Discovery Channel, the A&E Network, various National Public Radio programs, on Canada's CBC network and England's BBC Radio, and was featured last June on the PBS show, History Detectives. His book, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, published by the University of Illinois Press, won the 2001 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Currently he is writing the authorized biography of synthesizer pioneer, Robert Moog. www.albertglinsky.com
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