David Gompper

David Gompper has lived and worked professionally as a pianist, a conductor, and a composer in New York, San Diego, London, Nigeria, Michigan, Texas and Iowa. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Humphrey Searle. After teaching in Nigeria, he received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Texas, Arlington. Since 1991, he has been Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa. In 2002-2003 Gompper was in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching, performing and conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. In 2009 he received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City, and a Fromm Commission in 2013.
Gompper's compositions have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Merkin Halls (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Konzerthaus (Vienna) and the Bolshoi and Rachmaninoff Halls (Moscow Conservatory). For the Naxos label, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra recorded his Violin Concerto with Wolfgang David, and two new discs of works that include four concerti (Double, Clarinet, Cello and Double Bass), as well as three orchestral works. As a pianist, he has maintained an active profile accompanying musicians and singers since 2002, including Wolfgang David (violin), Stephen Swanson & John Muriello (baritones), Michael Norsworthy (clarinet), Christine Rutledge (viola), Timothy Gill (cello), and Volkan Orhon (double bass).
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Cello Concerto / Double Bass Concerto / Moonburst
David Gompper Volkan OrhonTimothy Gill
2020
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String Music
David Gompper Réne Lecuona, Volkan OrhonWolfgang David and Hannah Holman
2019
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Double Concerto "Dialogue" / Clarinet Concerto / "Sunburst"
David GompperWolfgang David, Timothy Gill, Michael Norsworth, and Emmanuel Siffert conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
2019
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Traceur, American Music for clarinet and piano
David GompperMichael Norsworthy, clarinet
2016
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Gompper: Violin Concerto
David GompperEmmanuel Siffert, conductor; Wolfgang David, violin; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
2011
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Viva Concertante!
David Gompper, Volkan Orhon, Christine Rutledge, Scott Conklin, Anthony Arnone2009
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Star of the County Down
David Gompper Wolfgang David2007
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Monsterology
Lawrence Fritts, David Gompper, Michael Eckert Timothy Stalter, William LaRue Jones2007
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Twentieth-Century American Music
University of Iowa Center for New Music David Gompper, Ksenia Nosikova2007