New Faculty for Fall 2009
Harry Bulow
Professor/Department HeadVisual and Performing Arts, VPA/PAO
hbulow@purdue.edu
Harry Bulow was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1951. He received his B.A. with distinction in music from San Diego State University (1975), and his M.A. and Ph.D. in music theory and composition from UCLA (1978, 1983). He studied composition and orchestration with Aaron Copland, Peter Mennin, Henri Lazarof, Roy Travis, David Ward-Steinman and Henry Mancini. His works have received numerous awards including 1st Prize at the International Composers Competition in Trieste, Italy, the "Oscar Espla" Prize from the city of Alicante, Spain, an NEA Composer Fellowship and 27 consecutive awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
His works have been performed by the Omaha Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, North/South Consonance and the New England Conservatory of Music Wind Ensemble. His style reveals a fluency in a wide range of musical idioms including jazz, concert, film and sacred music. The major influences in his work include the music of Witold Lutoslawski, Karel Husa, Peter Mennin, Aaron Copland and Henry Mancini. From 1992 to 2005 he was the Director of the Center for Music Technology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and most recently he served as Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX.
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