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Herbert
Bielawa
Herbert
Bielawa earned his degrees in piano and composition at the
University of Illinois and the University of Southern California.
He has taught at Bethany College and San Francisco State University
where he founded Pro Music Nova, created the electronic music
studio, and developed the Computer Music Major. He has written
for piano, harpsichord, organ, choir, electronics, chamber
opera, band, and orchestra. American Record Guide stated that "Bielawa
has a sunny temperament and a sense of humor (combined with
a formidable compositional technique and good taste)." His
much-performed SPECTRUM for Band and Tape, called "a near perfect
blending of the two elements of sound" by The Instrumentalist,
was composed while he was composer-in-residence in Houston,
Texas, 1964-1966. Other residencies were with the San Francisco
Summer Music Workshop in 1976, the S.F. Choral Artists in 2000,
and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, California,
in 2005. Since 1991 he has been a free-lance composer and pianist,
a member of the Ilona Clavier Duo, and founding director of
Sounds New, a San Francisco Bay Area new music ensemble. SANAS, for
chorus and orchestra, won honors in the Waging Peace Project
in 2001.
Organ
music by Herbert Bielawa
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