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David
Crumb's music has been performed throughout the United States and
abroad. His dramatic compositions are richly tonal, and intensely
coloristic. Among numerous awards, he has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship and grants from the Fromm and Barlow Foundations. Crumb has
accepted commissions from the Los Angeles Symphony New Music Group, the
Chicago Civic Orchestra/ASCAP Foundation, and the Bowdoin International
New Music Festival. He has held residencies at the Yaddo and MacDowell
artist colonies and participated in a variety of new music festivals.
His work has been released on Bridge, Albany, C.R.I./New World, Innova,
and Equilibrium. Crumb joined the faculty at the University of Oregon
School of Music in 1997, where he continues to serve as a member of the
composition department.