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Christopher Gable is a Visiting Assistant
Professor, specializing in Music Theory, Ear Training, and Composition. His
music has been performed across the country, from Los
Angeles to Moose Lake,
Minnesota, and frequently
includes references to and variations of all kinds of popular music. He has
written in many genres, including orchestra, band, chamber, but has a
special love for vocal music. His one-act chamber opera, The Ascension of Radegunde, is a science fiction story set in a medieval
German abbey, and has a libretto by his wife, Merie
Kirby. They have recently been commissioned to write an opera based on the
history of the town of Ladysmith, Wisconsin. Dr. Gable
has received performances and commissions from Zeitgeist, the First
Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, St. John’s Lutheran Church of Madison,
Wisconsin, Lake Harriet United Methodist Church, the Harding High School
Bands, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the University of Chicago New
Music Ensemble, the Butler University Composers Orchestra, the University
of Minnesota Concert Choir, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Bloomington
Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Civic Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of
Minneapolis, the UC Riverside Chamber Singers, and the Minnesota
Philharmonic. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota
and St. Olaf
College, and has studied at UC Santa Barbara and
the University
of Minnesota (Ph.D.);
his principal teachers were Dominick Argento,
Judith Lang Zaimont, and Emma Lou Diemer.
Research interests include popular music,
English change-ringing, and the music of Benjamin Britten. He is currently
writing a book on the words and music of Sting, to be published by Praeger in 2008.
Recently, his composition for viola and
organ, Teshuvah, received its world premiere by
sisters Carol and Catherine Rodland at St. Olaf
College. The recording will be
released on Crystal Records in 2008. New Look, Same Great Taste!! (for saxophone quartet) was premiered by Macalester’s very own Saxy Ladies
in December.
His music is published by Dorn
Publications (www.dornpub.com)
and Graphite Music Publishing (www.graphitepublishing.com).
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