English (100 words)
American composer Trevor Bača (*1975) was born in California and grew up in Texas. His concerns as a composer include lost and secret texts; sorcery, divination and magic; the beauty and movement of light; and the powers of musical storytelling. Bača's music has been played throughout the world with recent performances in Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Cologne, Curitiba, Darmstadt, Helsinki, Huddersfield, Leuven, Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Lyon, Maastricht, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Trieste, Würzburg, and elsewhere. Bača's music has been anthologized as part of Notations 21 and his scores have been exhibited as art at the Chelsea Gallery in New York City and at the Hutchins Gallery on Long Island. Bača holds a PhD in music composition from Harvard University. In 2019 Bača joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale University, where he lectures on 20th- and 21st-century music.
English (500 words)
American composer Trevor Bača (*1975) grew up in Texas. His concerns as a composer include lost and secret texts; broken and dismembered systems; sorcery, divination and magic; and the effects, action and beauty of light. Bača's music has been played throughout the US, Europe and Japan with recent performances in Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Cologne, Curitiba, Darmstadt, Helsinki, Huddersfield, Leuven, Ljubljana, Los Angeles, Lyon, Maastricht, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Thessaloniki, Tokyo, Trieste, Würzburg and elsewhere.
Bača's music has been played by soloists and ensembles around the world. Ensembles include the Argento Ensemble (New York); Callithumpian Consort (Boston); the Debussy Trio (Los Angeles); Distractfold (Manchester); Either/Or (New York); Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago); Ensemble Echoi (San Diego); Ensemble Mosaik (Berlin); ensemble recherche (Freiburg); Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg); manufaktur für aktuelle musik (Cologne); Talea Ensemble (New York); and others. Soloists include Brian Archinal (Bern); Séverine Ballon (Paris); Nico Couck (Antwerp); Richard Haynes (Bern); Jonathan Hepfer (Los Angeles); Marc Horne (Barcelona); Carin Levine (Bremen); Reiko Manabe (Tokyo); Mark Menzies (Los Angeles); Corrado Rojac (Trieste); Jürgen Ruck (Würzburg); Jessi Rosinski (Boston); Alan Toda-Ambaras (Boston); Alice Teyssier (New York); Elizabeth Weisser (New York); and others.
Bača's music has been programmed as part of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt); Musica Sacra (Maastricht); the Transit Festival (Leuven); and the Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik (Weimar). Prizes include Harvard University's George Arthur Knight Prize (2016); Harvard University's Sprague Prize in Composition (2015); Harvard University's Bohemians' Prize in Composition (2014); the Harry & Alice Eiler Foundation's Ježek Prize in Composition (2008); and the Debussy Trio's Susan & David Hirsch Prize in Composition (1996).
Recent publications include "Abjad: an open-source system for formalized score control," published in the proceedings of First International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, at IRCAM / Sorbonne in Paris; "Nature, song, transfiguration," a critical introduction to the instrumental music of Chaya Czernowin, published by Schott Music, in Mainz; "Music composition and the technologies of working together," an assessment of open-source technologies for collaborative composition, in the journal Ideas Sónicas, in Mexico City; "If on a winter's night a traveler," a critical introduction to the work of Japanese installation artist Aki Nagasaka, published in Osaka; "Breath, blood, network of nerves: an accidental body poetics," that theorizes the in-motion body and its parts; and "Unremitting ambiguity," an analysis of The Flypaper, by composer Steven Kazuo Takasugi, published in the journal Search and reprinted in The Second Century of New Music.
Bača has lectured at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Columbia University; the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique et Danse in Lyon; the Eastman Conservatory; Harvard University; the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM) in Paris; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Musicasa Tokyo; the New England Conservatory (NEC); Northeastern University; Stanford University; the Stuttgart Musikhochschule; the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB); the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC); the University of California at San Diego (UCSD); University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland; and the University of Huddersfield in the UK.
In July 2016 Bača led a weeklong intensive introduction to Abjad hosted by CCRMA at Stanford University. In August 2009 Bača completed a two-week residency at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart with performances by Ensemble SurPlus. Bača's music has been anthologized as part of Notations 21 (edited by Theresa Sauer) and Bača's scores have been exhibited as art at the Chelsea Gallery in New York City and at the Hutchins Gallery on Long Island.
Upcoming projects include Mráz (2016) for pianist Jared Redmond; and Aklın Hazine Odasına (2016) for percussionists Jonathan Hepfer, Brian Archinal & Alex Lipowski.
Bača holds a PhD in music composition from Harvard University.
French (100 words)
Compositeur américain Trevor Bača (*1975) a grandi en Texas. Sa préoccupation en tant que compositeur est celle de la perte et des textes secrets ; des systèmes cassés et démembrés ; de la sorcellerie ; de la divination et de la magie ; et les effets, les actions et la beauté de la lumière. La musique de Trevor Bača a été jouée aux USA, en Europe et au Japon. La musique de Bača est incluse dans l'anthologie Notations 21 (ed: Theresa Sauer). Les partitions de Bača ont été montrés dans le Chelsea Gallery en New York et dans le Hutchins Gallery en Long Island.
German (100 words)
Der amerikanische Komponist Trevor Bača (*1975) wuchs in Texas auf. Sein kompositorisches Interesse gilt verlorenen wie geheimen Texten, gebrochenen und fragmentierten Systemen, der Zauberei, der Hexerei, Weissagungen und dem Magischen, sowie den vielfältigen Erscheinungen und der Schönheit von Licht. Bačas Musik wurde in den USA, Europa und Japan gespielt. In jüngerer Zeit Aufführungen u.a. in New York, Tokio, Berlin und Barcelona. Bačas Partituren wurden in der Anthologie Notations 21 (hrg. von Theresa Sauer) veröffentlicht und darüber hinaus in Kunstgalerien wie der Chelsea Gallery (New York) und der Hutchins Gallery (Long Island) ausgestellt.