David Ross Manson

David is a composer, trombonist, sound artist, experimentalist, and improvisor based in St. Petersburg, Florida. His compositional and performance approaches include improvisation, interactive electronics, and experimental music. David is executive director of the EMIT series of experimental music and former director of the Tampa Bay Composers' Forum (1995-2003). His doctorate is from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is resident composer for the Moving Current Dance Collective and writes for and performs in avant-jazz groups Fluid Motion, SHIM and the Frank Zappa repertoire band Bogus Pomp.

audio snippets

 

experimental

Velocity

All Clear Now


jazz

Erg

A New Distance

modern dance

My Father's Footsteps

Disconnected

 

orchestral

Luma

installations

Voices

Voices

Eyes

mixed media

Painting Stars

compositions, recordings, residencies & awards

2007

And Jade Gorges Echo Unbroken is premiered by The Florida Orchestra

2006

Freund included on the Southern Arts Federation's Promotional Compilation CD

2005

Soloist in Cars & Fish, a multimedia event in Art Basil, Miami
Labyrinth published by Wehr Music

2004

ASCAP Award
Dagari for jazz quintet
Beast, CD of electroacoustic music with trombone, isospin labs
Florida Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Music Composition

2003

ASCAP Plus Award
Streams II for flute and computer
Labyrinth for trombone quartet
Artist Resource Fund award from the Pinellas County Arts Council

 

2002

Fluid Motion, CD of avant-jazz with Sam Rivers, isospin labs
Visions, compilation CD of past EMIT series performances, isospin labs
Artist residency at the Sound Arts Workshop, South Florida Composers Alliance; Miami, FL (August)
Re-Flecked, music for Moving Current Dance Collective
Strata, interactive music for Moving Current Dance Collective
No Haiku, for percussion & electronic - Winter Sun Music Festival

2001

Fulbright-Hayes group project in eastern Turkey
Artist residency at the Sound Arts Workshop, South Florida Composers Alliance; Miami, FL (March)

2000

Painting Stars, multimedia presentation, Atlantic Center for the Arts
My Pain, electronic music, Fusion Gallery
Velocity, electronic music, Fusion Gallery
Associate at the Atlantic Center for the Arts working with Cecil Taylor

 

1999

Second Prize - Millennial Fanfare Competition
Melange, electronic compositions for Moving Current Dance Co. and First Night Celebration
Luma, a millennial fanfare for the Florida Orchestra
Particle Zoo, CD of avant-jazz by SHIM; isospin labs
JazzSouth radio compilation # 32, Southern Arts Federation
My Father's Footsteps for Moving Current Dance Collective
Lecturer at the Zappa Symposium, Salvador Dali Museum
First Night of St. Petersburg commission for Melange with Moving Current

1998

Voices in the Hall, sound installation at the Arts Center of St. Petersburg
Nataraja for The Glass Orchestra of Toronto
From a New Distance for jazz ensemble
Florida Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Music Composition

 

1996

First Night of St. Petersburg commission for Ripples with Guadere Dansa

Selected Solo Performances

Villa-Lobos Institut - Rio de Janeiro, BONK New Music Festival, SCI National Conference; Miami, FL - SEAMUS National Conference; Birmingham, AL - Subtropics New Music Festival; Miami, FL - The Salvador Dali Museum; St. Petersburg, FL - University of South Florida; Tampa, FL - Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Cincinnati, Ohio - Baylor University; Waco, TX - University of Kansas; Lawrence, KS - St. Mary of the Woods College; Terre Haute, IN - University of Missouri-Columbia; Columbia, MS - Pedagoska akademija; Zagreb, Yugoslavia - Staatliche Hochschule für Musik; Freiburg, Germany

link to Bogus Pomp

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