Larry Groupé
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lawrence Nash Groupé |
| Born | April 1957 (age 66–67) |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Website | larrygroupe |
Lawrence Nash Groupé (born April 1957) is an American
In 2001, Groupé composed and orchestrated music in a collaboration with the British progressive rock band Yes for their Magnification album. He also toured with Yes and conducted a 60-piece orchestra as part of their promotional tour for the album, Yessymphonic.[4]
Education and career
Groupé is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, and was the recipient of the ASCAP award for student composers. He received a Masters in Music Composition at the University of California, San Diego where he studied with Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, Toru Takemitsu. He also studied computer generated music at Sanford with John Chowning and Leland Smith.
Groupé has composed, conducted and produced over 80 CD recordings. His music has been performed by a number of symphony orchestras, including Water Unfolding, a fantasy for orchestra commissioned by the San Diego Symphony, and Menagerie, a suite for solo organ, commissioned by the Spreckels Organ Society for its 85th birthday.[5][6]
Beginning in the Fall of 2016, Groupé became adjunct professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music specializing in scoring for visual media.
Groupé is a co-founder, alongside composer Roger Neill, of the Palomar Film Music Workshop, which has convened yearly in the Pauma Valley in San Diego County, California since 2015.[7]
References
- ^ "IMDB". IMDb.
- ^ "Northeastern Univ".
- ^ "Monopolydocumentary.com".
- ^ "San Diego Reader".
- ^ "Larrygroupe.com".
- ^ "Soundtrack.net".
- ^ "Larry Groupé to Host Intensive Summer Workshop for Aspiring Composers - Soundtrack.Net". www.soundtrack.net. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
External links
- Official site
- Larry Groupé at IMDb
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