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John La Barbera is a musical composer, arranger and plays guitar and mandolin. He has performed at concert halls and music festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Felt Forum, Alice Tully Hall, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, UCLA, Field Museum in Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco World Music Festival, Central Park Summer Stage and at the Jones Beach Theater. He has toured tours throughout Eastern Europe, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and in Brazil, where he was sponsored by the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasil Festeiro and SESC, in São Paulo. He holds a M.M. from William Paterson University and a B.M. from the Hartt School, (Univ.of Hartford), and graduate courses at Hunter College (NYC) in ethnomusicology, Villa Schifanoia (Rosary College), in Florence, Italy and at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, the film music seminar with Ennio Morricone. He currently teaches at the Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey and has taught at The Julius Hartt School of Music (University of Hartford ),The Guitar Study Center of the New School in New York; Sessione Sienese, in Siena, Italy; SASI in Bratislava, Slovakia; and SESC in São Paulo, Brazil. He conducts workshops and lectures on mandolin and acoustic guitar styles, ethnomusicology, world music, and has written for Acoustic Guitar magazine〔"Letter From Sao Paolo" Acoustic Guitar Magazine, October 1998.〕 ==Awards and commissions== La Barbera has won several awards and commissions for his musical compositions. From the Jerome Foundation he was commissioned to write a work for the ETHOS Percussion ensemble, The Marimba’Ba Suite for percussion, which premiered in 2001 and released on their CD Sol Tunnels; in 1996 by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Martin Gruss Foundation (), and the New York State Council on the Arts, to compose The Dance of the Ancient Spider (), which premiered at Alice Tully Hall. Funding from the New York State Council on the Arts and Meet the Composer; commissioned by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City to compose the Opera: ''Stabat Mater-Donna Di Paradiso''; 〔"Audience Joins Procession But Not the Flagellation" ''New York Times'', April 10, 1995.〕 His music has been recorded by various artists including percussionists Yousef Sheronick and Joseph Gramley with ''Danza del Fuego for Marinba and Dumbeck'' (); Jazz harmonica artist Enrico Granafei () together with Fred Hersh (), Alan Nussbaum and Mark Johnson, who recorded ''Waltz for Waiting''. He has received numerous composer awards from ASCAP and his song ''Sun Goes Down'' was awarded Jazz finalist in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (). In 2005, he was awarded for his role in the transmission and translation of Italian oral traditions from The Italian Oral History Institute () and recognized as one of the first transcribers of Southern Italian folk music in United States. He is the author of ''Southern Italian Mandolin and Fiddle Tunes'', Mel Bay Publications (), to be released in early 2009. 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「John T. La Barbera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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