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Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Bernard Rands.
He also studied Ghanaian drumming with C. K. and Kobla Ladzekpo, Hindustani classical music with Nikhil Banerjee, and Balinese and Javanese music.
Dresher's music has been variously described as minimalist and postminimalist. Dresher himself, poking fun at the latter term (which he perceives as fairly meaningless), has referred to himself as a "pre-maximalist," hence the name of his record label, MinMax.
Dresher served on the Board of Directors for the American Music Center from 1994 through 2000.
Recordings of Dresher's works are available on the Lovely Music, New World, CRI, Music and Arts, O.O. Discs, BMG/Catalyst, MinMax, Starkland, and New Albion labels.
He was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.[1]
References [edit]
- ^ "Guggenheim Foundation 2006 Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. 2006. Retrieved 2008-11-10. [dead link]
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The Canberra Times
Thu, 16 May 2013 06:41:40 -0700
At 6pm Paul Dresher presents ''Double Duo'' at the Albert Hall and this is followed at 8.15pm in the same venue by ''The Lark Ascending''. Saturday's program includes ''Jesus' blood'', ''Double Duo'' (again) and, at 8.15pm, ''Wagner and the Grail ...
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ABC Online (blog)
Mon, 13 May 2013 23:43:37 -0700
Music royalty like Paul Dresher will be on the airwaves later this week and with artists of this quality, it was necessary to give the master piano tuner a call. Ara Vartoukian is in town for the Canberra International Music Festival and dropped in for ...
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Wollondilly Advertiser
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:12:24 -0700
DESCRIBED as "one of the compositional icons of American new music", Paul Dresher, along with Karen Bentley Pollack, Lisa Moore and Joel Davel, will present Double Duo (pictured) at the Campbelltown Arts Centre on Saturday, May 11, from 8pm.
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The Canberra Times
Thu, 02 May 2013 21:20:45 -0700
... new ideas - seems almost to pervade the festival program. The other two composers-in-residence during the festival, American Paul Dresher and Englishman Gavin Bryars, share his conviction that music should appeal to as wide an audience as possible.
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Broadway World
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:11:15 -0700
Performance artist/vocalist Rinde Eckert and composer/performer Ned Rothenberg first worked together over 20 years ago in a production of Power Failure by the Paul Dresher Ensemble and have fantasized about a future collaboration ever since. In October ...
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Lugonotizie.it
Tue, 07 May 2013 01:44:51 -0700
... quintetto, o concerti con aggiunti orchestra o coro), dal 1984 al 2010, e dagli anni '90 in poi compone tra gli altri per i quartetti fiatistici ROVA e ARTE, per la Saint Louis Symphony, per la Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, e per il Paul Dresher ...
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