| Long Bio | dab dad b. 1951 034132
Born in Coulee Dam, Washington, in 1951, Philip Carlsen has degrees from the University of Washington, Brooklyn College, , the CUNY Graduate Center. His principal composition teachers were Robert Suderburg and Jacob Druckman; he also swdied with William Bergsma, Stuart Dempster, Mario Davidovsky, and Charles Dodge.
Carlsen has received fellowships from the Maine Arts Commission, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony. He was awarded the National Symphony Orchestra/Kennedy Center commission to a Maine composer to write a new chamber work in connection with the orchestra's residency in Maine. The piece that resulted, MAINE TRAVELER'S ADVISORY, was premiE!red at Kennedy Center during the 1997-98 season.
In 1989, as winner ofthe first American Composers AlliancelTown Hall Commission, Carlsen wrote a piece for the Manhattan Marimba Quartet, EVENING'S SABRES, which the group premiered in Town Hall and have subsequently performed at various other locations around the country.
Works for Maine ensembles include A DARK PINE'S HAND (1997) and ROWING IN EDEN (1992) for Toshi Shimada and the Portland Symphony Orchestra; NIGHT THOUGHTS (1996) and FOUR JOURNEYS IN MAINE (1989) forthe chorus and orchestra at UMF; SONGS OF HERSELF (1993) forthe Occasional Chorale; and PENUMBRA (1987) for the violin, clarinet, and piano trio ofthe same name.
His septet LANDSCAPE WITH LADYSLIPPER was commissioned and premiered in August 1997 by the Sebago/Long Lake Region Chamber Music Festival in celebration of its 25th anniversary season. A member of the University of Maine at Farmington faculty since 1982, Carlsen received UMF's Distinguished Faculty Award in 1993, and, for the 1996-97 academic year, the Libra Professorship, an endowed chair which allowed him to devote half his time to composition. |
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