Rodney Rogers
Composer
"Buffalo Park" (Flagstaff), Gwen Waring
(oil on canvas)
RODNEY ROGERS
Bio//
Rodney Rogers began improvising at the piano at age four and composing as a young teenager. Studying composition throughout his high school and college years (BM, MM, PhD), his most influential teachers were D. Martin Jenni and Joseph Schwantner. He won several national awards in composition from BMI and ASCAP during his college years. In his mid-twenties, he received a composition fellowship at Tanglewood and residencies at both MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies. This period included numerous performances in New York City and his first publications (Alexander Broude, Schirmer/AMP). His teaching career began in 1980, first at LSU (Baton Rouge, LA), then Lawrence University (Appleton, WI), and finally at Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), where he taught composition and analysis courses in the School of Music from 1987 to 2019. He currently devotes his time to composing, gardening, traveling, and hiking in the Southwest and West.
West Fork Trail (Sedona), 2019
BASIC INFO
Rodney Irl Rogers
born//
1953
origin//
Minnesota, USA
genres//
Chamber & Orchestral Music
years active//
1977 - present
website//
rodneyrogers.online
DISCOGRAPHY
//CDs
CD Title, followed by list of
Rogers' compositions
on each CD
Complicated Optimism (Music of Rodney Rogers)
Riffing in Tandem (two pianos)
Two Views (saxophone sextet, double bass, percussion)
Voices Rising (clarinet)
Crossing the Bar (soprano & piano)
Numbering the Stars (brass quintet)
Prevailing Winds (wind ensemble)
Alleluia Sing the Stars (SSAATTBB, a cappella)
Single Works on CDs
available at these and other locations:
American Flute (Claudia Anderson) hbdirect.com
April hello (flute & piano)
Duo Vivo (Laura Hunter & Brian Connelly) music.apple.com
The Nature of this Whirling Wheel (alto saxophone & piano)
The Light Wraps You (Michele Fiala, New Music for Oboe) all music.com
Lessons of the Sky (oboe & piano)
Anglosax (British and American Music for Saxophone) amazon.com
Lessons of the Sky (soprano saxophone & piano)
Child's Play (Kelly Johnson: Stories, Songs, and Dances) potenzamusic.com
Dance Duo (clarinet & piano)
Other Recordings of Lessons of the Sky (Sop. Sax.)
Facades, Lara James, hyperion-records.co.uk
Lessons of the Sky, Clifford Leaman, Equilibrium EQ139
Duo Nuova—Visions, Tim McAllister, Centaur CRC2280
Lessons of the Sky, Kazuyuki Hayashida, Tidal
RECORDINGS
// CHAMBER MUSIC
individual tracks
available for download
High Desert Blooms
1. Parched Fireweed
2. Purple Nightshade
3. Fireweed