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Professor Carleton Macy, presently acting
chair of the Music Department, has been teaching theory and composition at
Macalester since 1978. He directs and performs recorders and crumhorns with
Collegium Musicum Macalestri,
a chamber ensemble specializing in medieval, renaissance, and baroque
music. He established the MacJazz big band in
1979 and directed the ensemble until 2005.
Professor Macy's composition catalog
includes more than 120 works for orchestra, band, chamber ensembles,
vocalists, traditional Chinese instruments, and jazz ensembles. His music
can be heard on CDs produced on the INNOVA label (American Composers Forum),
on DAPHENO (a French company specializing in saxophone music), and other
CDs produced by various professional ensembles in the United States and Europe.
Among his most popular works are woodwind quintets and saxophone quartets.
He has twice won the commission award at the National Symposia for New
Woodwind Quintet Music held at the University of Georgia.
His saxophone works have been performed throughout Europe, North America,
and Asia, and are featured on 4 different
CDs.
Macy's active interest in Non-Western
music has led him to become a performer, conductor and composer with the Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble,
which specializes in the performance of traditional and contemporary music
written for Chinese traditional instruments. His compositions for Chinese
instruments make use of traditional styles and techniques, blending them
with traditional western styles.
When not conducting the ensemble Macy plays the sheng,
a 36-note mouth organ. In addition
to his interest in Chinese music Macy plays tenor drum in the Macalester
Pipe Band and owns his own Javanese Gamelan.
Macy's non-music interests include
tennis, golf, running, mountain climbing, and gastronomy.
Links to:
Catalog of Compositions
Catalog of Recordings
Sound Samples
Minnesota Chinese Music Ensemble
Collegium Musicum Macalestri
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