William Dougherty (composer)

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William “Bill” Dougherty (born 1988) is an American composer. He is the recipient of the 2021 Luciano Berio Rome Prize in Music Composition from the American Academy in Rome,[1] the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,[2] a Marshall Scholarship from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission,[3] and residencies at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation,[4] Cité Internationale des Arts, the Copland House,[5] and the Internationalen Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (IGNM) Valais Residency at Schloss Leuk.[6]

Education[edit]

Dougherty earned a BM degree from Temple University in 2010. He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Royal College of Music,[7] where he earned an MMus in 2012 studying with Kenneth Hesketh and Mark-Anthony Turnage. From 2012 to 2014, Dougherty continued his studies with Georg Friedrich Haas as an Ergänzungsstudium student at the Hochschule für Musik Basel. In 2019, Dougherty completed the Cursus in computer music composition at IRCAM in Paris.[8] He received his DMA degree from Columbia University in 2021 where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis, and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Music[edit]

Dougherty's compositions have been performed internationally by ensembles including Slagwerk den Haag, JACK Quartet, The London Chorus, Asko|Schönberg, oenm, TILT Brass, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, UMS ´n JIP, and Talea Ensemble.

His music has been featured in festivals such as IRCAM's ManiFeste (2019), musikprotokoll (2018), Gaudeamus Muziekweek (2018),[9] MATA Festival (2018), Donaueschingen Musiktage (2017), New Music Miami (2017), Tectonics Festival New York (2015), the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2015), the 47th Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (2014), the New York Philharmonic Biennale (2014),[10] and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.[11]

Jeffrey Arlo Brown wrote that Dougherty's "Three Formants for five trombones (2014) is like a more concentrated version of Stockhausen’s Stimmung, heavy on vocal sounds, haptic tremolos, stereophonic motion and gorgeous chords. hyper electric for two electric guitars and two double basses (2018) is fragile and pensive, shot through with feedback and noise."[12]

Writing[edit]

Dougherty has contributed articles, interviews, and reviews to VAN Magazine, Music & Literature, and Tempo. He specializes in the field of American experimental music and the music of composers Éliane Radigue and Horatiu Radulescu. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of openwork,[13] a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that publishes research into experimental music, art and scholarship.

Discography[edit]

Stimmungen: mikrotonale Musik für Zither with Martin Mallaun, (Loewenhertz, 2020)[14]

Music from SEAMUS, vol. 26 with Zone Experimental, Basel, (SEAMUS Records, 2017)[15]

Oracle’s Blast with Wiktor Kociuban, Demetre Gamsachurdia, (DUX Recording Producers, 2015)[16]

Selected works[edit]

  • Megadont (2013) for three baritone saxophones
  • Into Focus (2014) for violin and orchestra
  • Three Formants (2014) for five trombones
  • Intersections (2015) for flute, saxophone, percussion, two pianos, accordion, and sine tones
  • a stillness of zero sensation (2015) for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
  • the new normal (2016) for large ensemble and fixed media
  • Traum im traum (2017) for meantone tuned zither and sine tones
  • hyper electric (2018) for two electric guitars and two double basses
  • soft brown wax (2019) for three trumpets, three trombones, augmented piano, and fixed media

Articles, interviews, and reviews[edit]

  • Dougherty, William (2014). "On Horatiu Radulescu's Fifth String Quartet ('Before the Universe Was Born') Op. 89". Tempo. 68 (268): 34–45.
  • Dougherty, William (2016). "La Monte Young Trio for Strings Original Full Length Version, Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, New York City". Tempo. 70 (275): 99–100.
  • Oliveros, Pauline (2016). "Listening, Not Hearing: An Interview with Pauline Oliveros." VAN Magazine. Interviewed by William Dougherty.
  • Dougherty, William (2016). "Phill Niblock's 'Winter Solstice' at Roulette, Brooklyn, New York". Tempo. 70 (277): 97–98.
  • Dougherty, William (2016). "Horatiu Radulescu's Piano Sonatas & String Quartets, Vol. 1". Music & Literature.
  • Crumb, George (2016). "Unified Music: An Interview with George Crumb". VAN Magazine. Interview by William Dougherty.
  • Johnston, Ben (2018). "I Did That: An Interview with Ben Johnston." VAN Magazine. Interview by William Dougherty.
  • Dougherty, William (2019). "Imagined Music, the problem of deterritorialization". LINKs–series. 3–4: 18–19.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "New Rome Prize Winners and Italian Fellows | American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. 22 July 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  2. ^ "2021 Music Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters". Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  3. ^ "Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission - 59th Annual Report (Year ending 30 September 2012)" (PDF). www.marshallscholarship.org. 2012. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  4. ^ "Columbia Students, Alumni, and Faculty Awarded Civitella Ranieri Fellowships". Columbia University Department of Music. 2020-01-17. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  5. ^ Dworkin, Elizabeth (2015). "Press Release Copland House Awards 2015" (PDF). Copland House. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  6. ^ "IGNM Wallis/Schweiz ::::: SIMC Valais/Suisse ::::: ISCM Valais/Switzerland". ignm-vs.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  7. ^ Burton, Jazmyn (2009-12-01). "Temple Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship to Study in UK: William Dougherty will study music composition at the Royal College of Music". Temple Times. Archived from the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  8. ^ "Cursus 2018.19". ircam. 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  9. ^ Nieuwenhuis, Jan (October 2018). "Compositeur nominé pour le prix Gaudeamus 2018 : Gaudeamus Award 2018 Nominee : WILLIAM DOUGHERTY Un portrait par Jan Nieuwenhuis (traduction Jonathan Bell)". www.leducation-musicale.com. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  10. ^ "New York Philharmonic EarShot Readings: Composer Spotlight – William Dougherty – American Composers Orchestra". Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  11. ^ "William Dougherty | Institute for Ideas and Imagination". ideasimagination.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  12. ^ Brown, Jeffrey Arlo (2018-08-23). "The Death and Life of Spectral Music • VAN Magazine". VAN Magazine. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  13. ^ "Editorial Team | Openwork". journals.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  14. ^ "LABEL LOEWENHERTZ". www.loewenhertz.at. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  15. ^ "Music from SEAMUS Volume 26, by The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States". New Focus Recordings. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  16. ^ Kociuban - Gamsachurdia – Oracle's Blast (2014, CD), retrieved 2021-02-24

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