Jay Schwartz
*26.06.1965

Future Performances

Music for Three Stringed Instruments
22.06.2012, Essen (D)
Zwielicht
27.06.2012, St. Gallen (CH)
Zwielicht
28.06.2012, St. Gallen (CH)
Zwielicht
02.07.2012, St. Gallen (CH)
Music for Orchestra II
28.10.2012, Wien (A)

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    Jay Schwartz: Narcissus & Echo in Madrid
    On 23 and 25 March Jay Schwartz' chamber opera Narciussus & Echo comes to Madrid in the new producti [...]

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Jay Schwartz

The Composer

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Jay Schwartz was born in San Diego, California in 1965 and studied music at Arizona State University. After completing his degree in 1989 he pursued an advanced degree in musicology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. From 1992 to 1995 he worked as assistant Composer in Residence for incidental music at the Stuttgart State Theater.

Renowned orchestras and ensembles throughout Europe have commissioned and performed his works, including the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI (Italian National Orchestra), the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, the Radio Symphony [...]

About the Music

Jay Schwartz WergoJay Schwartz's Music for Orchestra, Music for Six Voices, Music for 12 Cellos and Music for Five Stringed Instruments are now available on CD on the Wergo label, as part of the Deutscher Musikrat's series "Edition Zeitgenössischer Musik".

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Jay Schwartz's compositions employ aspects of the physics of sound and utilize tonality in the context of the physics of organic harmony, making use of the overtone spectrum, microtonality, and glissandi in a poetic context with a captivating sensuous drawing power and an unabashed emotional disposition.

Schwartz integrates these acoustical events in a clear, deliberately prolonged, coherent form, which generates a persistent [...]

10 of 19 Works

Music for 12 Cellos | for 12 violoncellos 2002
Music for Autosonic Gongs IX | for 8 electro-acoustically controlled tam-tams ( [...] –
Music for Autosonic Gongs X | for electro-acoustically controlled tam-tams (chi [...] –
Music for Chamber Ensemble | for ensemble 2006
Music for Five Stringed Instruments | for 2 violins, viola, violoncello and dou [...] 1997
Music for Five Stringed Instruments II | for 2 violins, viola, violoncello and [...] 2008
Music for Flute | for flute 2007
Music for Orchestra | for string orchestra 2005
Music for Orchestra II | for orchestra 2010
Music for Orchestra III | for string orchestra 2010