Oliver Caplan

Education:

2006	M.M. in Composition (Pi Kappa Lambda honors); The Boston Conservatory
2004	A.B. in Music and Geography (honors); Dartmouth College

Interests:

I come to the Pierce Lab through a long standing interest in ecology and environmental science. At Dartmouth College, I majored in Geography with a focus on natural resource management. While I serve here as administrative assistant to the lab, I am elsewhere best known as a classical composer. My compositional interests encompass both concert music and collaboration with artists in other media. In November 2006, The Bronx Arts Ensemble premiered my chamber work Laugh • Stay • Dance. Other recent performances include “For Pondering” (an orchestral piece), dance works with choreographers Mary Chris DeBelina and Susan Graham, and incidental music for theatre. I am currently working on a new musical to be performed by the 11:11 Theatre Company in May 2007 at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Works:

Orchestral:

For Pondering, orchestral version (2006)

November Mourning (2005)

Symphony No. 1 (2004)

Overture for Chamber Orchestra (2003)

Chamber:

Laugh • Stay • Dance (2006) – flute, clarinet, violin, cello [download excerpt]

Of the Woodland (2005) – 2 horns, trombone, tuba

Quintet (2004) – flute, clarinet, violin, cello

Four (2004) – flute, bassoon, guitar, vibraphone

Rainy Day (2003) – violin, viola, cello

Refuge (2003) – horn, piano

Dance for Human and the Wind (2003) – string quartet

Vocal:

Night Cabal (2005) – soprano, piano

Seasons (2005) – soprano/tenor, string quartet

Revelry (2003) – vocal quartet, flute, violin

Solo:

Confessions (2006) - bassoon

Pumpernickel & Cheddar (2006) – cello

For Pondering, piano version (2005) – piano

Movements for Clarinet (2005) – clarinet

November 3 (2005) – piano

Opus 6 (2003) – piano

Mixed Media:

Softly Unsaid (2005) – piano; incidental music for the play by Brian Tuttle

Chance Encounters (2005) – MIDI synthesizer; privately commissioned ring tone for cellular phone

The Other Way (2005) – violin, viola bass; for dance choreography by Susan Graham

Spring (2004) – piano; for dance choreography by Mary Chris DeBelina