Dave Brubeck, designated a "Living
Legend" by the Library of Congress, continues to be one of the most active and
popular musicians in both the jazz and classical worlds. With a career that
spans over six decades, his experiments in odd time signatures, improvised
counterpoint, polyrhythm and polytonality remain hallmarks of innovation.
Throughout his career Brubeck has
continued to experiment with interweaving jazz and classical music. He has performed as composer-performer with
most of the major orchestras in the United States and with prestigious choral
groups and orchestras in Europe and America.
Dave cites as some of the highlights of his career the premier of his
composition "Upon This Rock" for Pope John Paul II's visit to San Francisco and
the performances of his mass "To Hope! A Celebration" in St. Stephan's
Cathedral in Vienna and in Moscow with the Russian National Orchestra and
Orloff choir.
Dave Brubeck's compositions include a
popular Christmas choral pageant "La Fiesta de la Posada", oratorios and
cantatas, ballet suites, a string quartet, chamber ensembles, pieces for solo
and duo-piano, violin solos and orchestral works. His mass "To Hope! A
Celebration" has been performed throughout the English speaking world, Germany,
Russia and Austria and was recorded in the National Cathedral in Washington,
D.C. In 2002 the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices recorded in "Classical Brubeck" his Easter oratorio "Beloved Son", "Pange Lingua
Variations", "The Voice of the Holy Spirit" and a composition for string
orchestra, "Regret", all under the baton of Russell Gloyd, who since 1976 has
been associated with Brubeck as conductor, producer and manager. A mini-opera
based on Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" was presented at the Monterey Jazz Festival
in 2006.
While increasingly active as a composer,
Brubeck has remained a leading figure in jazz, recording for Telarc, appearing
in festivals and touring internationally in concert halls with today's version
of the Dave Brubeck Quartet - Bobby Militello, sax and flute, Randy Jones,
drums, Michael Moore, bass. As in the Dave Brubeck Quartet decades ago, each is
a master musician and their concert repertoire ranges from "hits" from the old
Quartet "book" to cutting edge new material.
Throughout his long career Dave Brubeck
has received national and international honors, including the National Medal of
the Arts from President Clinton, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Smithsonian Medal, and a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He holds numerous honorary doctorates from
American, Canadian, English and German universities, including an honorary
degree in Sacred Theology from Fribourg University, Switzerland. Recently,
Brubeck received the Distinguished Arts Award from the Ford Honors program of
the University of Michigan and in 2006 received from Notre Dame their highest
honor, the Laetare Medal. He is a Duke
Ellington Fellow at Yale University, and was presented with the Sanford Medal
by the Yale School of Music
In the year 2000 the National Endowment
for the Arts declared Dave Brubeck a Jazz Master. He was inducted into the American Classical
Music Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2007 he received a Living Legacy Jazz Award from
Kennedy Center and the Arison Award from the National Foundation for the Advancement
of the Arts.
His international honors include Austria’s
highest award for the Arts, a citation from the French government, and the
Bocconi Medal from Italy. The London Symphony Orchestra, acknowledging their
long association, presented him with their prestigious Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2007.
The most recent honor from his alma
mater, the University of the Pacific, is the President's Medal of Achievement
presented by Donald V. De Rosa. Dave
Brubeck serves as chairman of The Brubeck Institute that the University of the
Pacific established in his honor.
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