William Roper (musician)
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William "Bill" Roper (* 14. April 1955) is an American Tuba player, composer, performing and visual artist. He also performs on a variety of brass and woodwind instruments and as a multimedia visual artist. He lives in Los Angeles.
Life and Work[edit]
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Roper began playing the tuba in Junior High. He studied classical performance on the tuba at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Carnegie Mellon and independently in New York [1].
Since the 1980s, Roper has recorded in classical, jazz, and rock settings and worked with theater and dance performances as well.
He has received several composition grants, including from Meet the Composer and the California Arts Council. In 2000, he was a fellow of the Djerassi Institute. In jazz, Roper participated in over sixty recording sessions beginning in 1986,[2] including Bobby Bradford, Yusef Lateef, Vinny Golia, Glenn Horiuchi, Clay Jenkins, James Newton, John Rapson, Kim Richmond, Horace Tapscott, Michael Vlatkovich, and Wadada Leo Smith.[3], [4]. He has also worked as a studio musician for Elton John, Hans Zimmer, and others. In 2002 he released the album Roper's Darn! Yarns, followed by If I Ran The Circus: Compositions by William Roper. He is a co-founder of Judicanti Responsura, a tuba and percussion ensemble that explores contemporary and improvised music and Purple Gums, a trio consisting of Bobby Bradford, Francis Wong and himself [5].
References[edit]
- ↑ Interview by Greg Burk, 2001. https://www.metaljazz.com/2006/01/william_roper_interview_2001.php
- ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
- ↑ Liner Notes for the Album Hilltop View by Glenn Horiuchi
- ↑ The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles by Steve Isoardi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, 232.
- ↑ Portrait at All About Jazz
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