Eric William Barnum
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| Born | March 15, 1979 Crookston, Minnesota |
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Eric William Barnum (born March 15, 1979) is an American composer of choral, instrumental, and vocal works. He received his doctorate in Choral Conducting at the University of Washington, Seattle.[1][2] He is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.[3]
Career[edit]
Barnum studied composition and vocal performance at Bemidji State University, Minnesota, where he studied with Patrick Riley in 2002.[4] He later studied composition and received his M.Mus. in choral conducting with David Dickau at Minnesota State University, Mankato in 2004. Barnum received a DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Washington under the direction of Geoffrey Boers in 2013.[4]
Barnum has been commissioned by ACDA Honor choirs, university ensembles, professional choirs, and school choirs.[1] His composition of the poem "She Walks in Beauty" was incorporated in the male classical vocal ensemble Chanticleer's touring repertoire.[5]
Musical style[edit]
Barnum's music is tied to preexisting text, most often from Latin liturgical sources or English poetry.[6]
Awards[edit]
- Chanticleer Student Composer Competition, for "She Walks in Beauty"[7]
- 2004-2005 Composer-in-Residence for The Rose Ensemble
- 2004 JCCP Composers Grant (funded by the Jerome Foundation)[2]
Compositions[edit]
- After Music (MusicSpoke)
- Afternoon on a Hill (Walton Music)
- Benediction
- Dawn (G. Schirmer Music)
- Fair Ines (Walton Music)
- Healing Heart
- Jenny Kiss'd Me (Walton Music)
- Lo, I Am With You Always (Pavane Publishing)
- Lotos
- Love is enough
- My Love and Grave
- O crux, ave (Colla Voce Music)
- Panis angelicus (Pavane Publishing)
- Psalm 67
- Return! (Walton Music)
- She Walks in Beauty (Hinshaw Music)
- Summer's Ocean
- Take My Hand
- the Garden
- The Lie
- The Human Heart (Walton Music)
- The Lady in the Water (Santa Barbara Music)
- The Stars Stand Up In the Air (Walton Music)
- The Sweetheart of the Sun (Walton Music)
- There's Nae Lark
- There is Sweet Music Here
- The Wheel that Moves the Sun and Stars (Santa Barbara Music)
- Two Dear Hearts
- Venus' Lament
- Waiting for the Dawn
- Waly Waly
- When All Was Young
- Wrapped
- Dreams of Thee (Walton Music)
- Music in the Night
- A Red, Red Rose (Walton Music)
- I Come Singing (Graphite Publishing)
- The House on the Hill
- The Young Man's Song (Graphite Publishing)
- To What Shall I Compare Her
- Heaven Full of Stars
- I Am Not Yours
- Invisible
- Spark (Graphite Publishing)
- 4 Responsorials
- Responsorial I
- Responsorial II
- Responsorial III
- Responsorial IV
- Across the Fields (Walton Music)
- ...and the Glory of the Lord
- Antiphon to the Holy Spirit
- awake
- Blake Animal Poems
- The Lamb
- The Tyger
- Chronologic
- Confessions
- Conflagration (Graphite Publishing)
- Corpus Christi
- Domine quis habitabit
- eikon
- Elysium
- Heaven-Haven
- Hic est Martinus (MusicSpoke)
- In paradisum (MusicSpoke)
- Inferno
- look up...
- Memory
- Moonlight Music (Alliance Music)
- Psalm 95
- Remembered Light
- Requiescat (G. Schirmer Music)
- Sing in Dark Times
- The Hateful Crime
- Pigtail
- Yes
- The Rose of Midnight
- I. Chrístus fáctus est
- II. Ténebrae fáctae sunt
- III. Crucifíxus
- IV. The Rose of Midnight
- V. Adorámus te, Chríste (Walton Music)
- VI. Surreéxit pástor bónus
- VII. O vérbum Pátris
- The Sounding Sea (Walton Music)
- The Sunken City (MusicSpoke)
- The True Knowledge: 4 Mystical Poems
- The Brier
- The Trees and the Master
- The Blade and the Grass
- The True Knowledge
- The Valley of Silence
- The White Birds (Graphite Publishing)
- There was a time (Santa Barbara Music)
- To Night
- Wellspring
- Walk
- XXV: from War is Kind and other lines
- The Bee-Boy's Song
- I Sing of the Northland
- Carol of the Angels
- Flowers for the Altar (MusicSpoke)
- I Sing of a Maiden
- Natum vidimus
- Sweeter Still (Walton Music)
- The Beautiful Sing (Santa Barbara Music Publishing)
- Weihnachten Nacht
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Light Mirrors
- Lucy (cycle for tenor) (Graphite Publishing)
- I. Strange fits of passion
- II. She dwelt among the untrodden ways
- III. I traveled among unknown men
- IV. Three years she grew
- V. A slumber did my spirit seal
- The Frozen Grail (cycle for soprano) (Graphite Publishing)
- 1. Why sing the legends of the Holy Grail
- 2. What shall prevail against the spirit of man
- 3. Dante, in his frozen hell
- 4. Does he watch behind the lattice
- 5. To conquer the world
- 6. The star
- 7. He shall find
Teaching[edit]
Barnum is Director of Choral Activities at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa and was recently the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "GIA Publications - Walton Music".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Santa Barbara Music Publishing". Archived from the original on 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2010-03-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Biography". EricWilliamBarnum.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Biography". EricWilliamBarnum. Retrieved 2017-03-10.
- ↑ "Student Composer Competition Announced". Archived from the original on 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2010-03-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Biography". EricWilliamBarnum. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ↑ "Composer Competition". Archived from the original on 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2010-03-08. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Overview". EricWilliamBarnum.
*1Barnum, Dr. Eric. "Telling Stories." Convocation. University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Arts and Communication Building, Oshkosh. 21 Mar. 2014. Class lecture.
External links[edit]
- Artist's website
- Eric William Barnum: TragicHero, University of Washington[permanent dead link]
- Home
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