Name Bob Gilmore | Role Musical Artist | |
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Died January 2, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands Education University of California, San Diego, University of York, York University Books Claude Vivier: A Compose, Harry Partch: A Biography, Harry Partch: "the Early Voc, The Ear of the Voice of the Eye Similar People Claude Vivier, Ben Johnston, Frank Denyer, Horatiu Radulescu, Harry Partch | ||
McCann: Art Galbraith, Gordon McCann, and Bob Gilmore, June 18, 1991
Bob Gilmore (6 June 1961 – 2 January 2015) was a musicologist, educator and keyboard player. Born in Larne, Northern Ireland, he spent his early years in Carrickfergus. He studied music at York University, England, and Queen's University, Belfast (PhD. 1992), and, on a Fulbright Scholarship, at the University of California, San Diego. He was best known for his books on American music – Harry Partch: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP. He also wrote extensively on the American experimental tradition, microtonal music and spectral music, including the work of such figures as James Tenney, Horațiu Rădulescu, Claude Vivier, and Frank Denyer. He wrote on the work of younger Irish composers including Deirdre Gribbin, Donnacha Dennehy and Jennifer Walshe in the Journal of Music in Ireland. He taught at Queens University, Belfast, Dartington College of Arts, Brunel University in London, and was a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent. He was the founder, director and keyboard player of Trio Scordatura, an Amsterdam-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of microtonal music, and for the year 2014 was the Editor of Tempo, a quarterly journal of new music. His biography of French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was published by University of Rochester Press in June 2014.
