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Carlton Gamer (born February 13, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer and music theorist. He has taught at Colorado College, Princeton University, and the University of Michigan. He studied at Northwestern University and Boston University and privately with Roger Sessions. ==Career== Gamer has composed more than seventy works in a variety of categories, including songs, music for dance, solo piano pieces, chamber music, choral works, orchestral works, and computer music. His music has been featured in New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall (now Weill Recital Hall), the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and in some sixty other venues throughout the U.S. Among its presenters have been the International Society of Contemporary Music, the Society of Composers, Inc., the Current and Modern Consort of the University of Michigan School of Music, the College Music Society, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—Rockefeller Foundation International Competition for Excellence in the Performance of American Music. His works have been heard at conferences and festivals in the U.S., among them the WNYC American Music Festival, San Diego International Computer Music Conference, Southwestern Composers Conference, Grand Teton Music Festival, Colorado Contemporary Music Festival, Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and Colorado College New Music Symposium.〔 His works have been performed abroad, in Sydney, Guadalajara, Salzburg, Rome, Warsaw, Oxford, London, and Calcutta.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Winter Concert Programme: Jazz and the blues in the Classical style )〕 Gamer grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where his father taught at the University of Illinois, and where at the age of eight he began to study piano with Tanya Kessler and composition with her husband Hubert Kessler, of the faculty of the University of Illinois School of Music, who had been a student of Heinrich Schenker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=University of Illinois School of Music )〕 From 1942 to 1946 he attended University High School, a laboratory school of Illinois State Normal University (now Illinois State University) in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, during which time he continued his piano studies with two members of the faculty of Illinois Wesleyan University, first with Stefan Bardas and then with Chester Barris. In 1946 he graduated from University High School as valedictorian.〔 He went to Northwestern University (B.Mus., 1950), studying theory and composition with Frank Cookson and Anthony Donato and piano with Louis Crowder and Pauline Manchester Lindsey; and Boston University (M.Mus., 1951), studying composition with Gardner Read and musicology with Karl Geiringer. At Boston University he was a graduate assistant, teaching a course in orchestration, and served as research assistant for ''Read’s Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices''. In New York, 1951-3, he founded a workshop of composer-performers ("The Seven") who met regularly at his home to read through and critique each other’s music; they occasionally performed in public.〔 The members were Sheldon Harnick, violin; Gerard Jaffe, viola; Juliette White, cello; Robert Dorough, recorder, flute, and piano; Eric Katz, recorder, Noel Stevens, clarinet, and himself, piano.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wnyc.org/shows/american-music-festival/1952/feb )〕 In New York he was also the pianist, composer, and music director for dancer and choreographer Ilka Suarez and her company.〔 Gamer joined the music faculty at Colorado College in 1954. In 1954 and 1955 he served as accompanist for Hanya Holm in her summer dance workshops at the college. After studying composition privately with Roger Sessions in Princeton, N.J. in 1957, he was invited to be a fellow at the Princeton Seminars in Advanced Musical Studies in 1959 and 1960. His recollection of these seminars is found in his article, ”Milton at the Princeton Seminars.” (See Publications). On leave from Colorado College, he was an Asia Society Fellow at The University of California and in Kyoto, Japan in 1962-3.〔 He taught at Princeton University as a Visiting Lecturer in Music in 1974, and as a Visiting Professor of Music in 1976 and again in 1981. In 1976 he was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Council of Humanities at Princeton. In the same year, he received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.〔 In 1979 he taught at the Salzburg Global Seminar: “Musical Ideas and Musical Institutions” (Session 189) in Salzburg, Austria, with co-faculty Edward Cone, Ruth Katz, Gunther Schuller, Leo Treitler, and Peter Westergaard. In 1982 he was Visiting Professor of Music, teaching a graduate seminar, at the University of Michigan. He retired from full-time teaching in 1994.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carlton Gamer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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