David Cleary (3)

David Cleary -- American Composer, Critic, Cellist David Cleary (b. 1954), composer, critic, cellist, and writer on music, received a D.M.A. degree from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; M.M. from the Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford; and B.M. from the New England Conservatory. His composition teachers have included Donald Martino, Malcolm Peyton, Donald Harris, Norman Dinerstein, Thomas Pasatieri, and Mordechai Scheinkman. His cello teachers were Martin Hoherman, Robert Ripley, Michael Rudiakov, and Jack Kirstein. His music has been performed and broadcast worldwide, including festival performances at Tanglewood, June in Buffalo, New Music North, and Warebrook. Cleary's music has attracted many awards, including prizes from the Harvey Gaul Contest and Cincinnati Composers Guild; grants from the Ella Lyman Cabot Trust, Meet the Composer, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and Harvard University; and arts colony residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Djerassi, Ragdale, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Cummington, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Commissions for pieces have come from the American Composers Forum's Continental Harmony program, Alea III, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Northwestern University Trombone Ensemble, Equinox Chamber Players, Duo Renard, and Arcadian Winds, among others.