Artist description Composer Ross Popoff's music has been premiered and performed throughout the United States in venues such as Harris Hall at the Aspen Music Festival, Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music at the Bowdoin Music Festival, at Brandies University and at Jordan Hall in Boston. He has received commissions and performances from ensembles such as the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, The Yesaroun' Duo, the Inter School Orchestras of New York, the Rivers Music School, the Great Neck Select Singers, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Chamber Players and many others. Popoff is also the recipient of numerous awards and in 2002 alone, was noted as a finalist in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, a semi-finalist in the Tampa Bay Composer Forum Prize for Excellence in Camber Music Composition Competition and winner of the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia Composition Competition. In addition to his work as a composer, Ross Popoff is an active conductor having studied with Jeffery Milarsky, and has given performances in such venues as the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and at Harvard University. He is also active as a new music ensemble administrator working as assistant director and technical supervisor for the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble. In February of 2002 Ross assisted Teresa Marrin Nakra, artistic director of Immersion Music, during her residency at Harvard University, producing and performing in a concert of new music developed for and by gestural interface technologies. As a music educator, Ross Popoff assisted in the Metropolitan Opera Guild's Creating Original Opera Program in Lynn, MA and at the Conservatory Lab Charter School in South Boston, where elementary school students wrote, produced and performed in their own original opera. Popoff's principal teachers have included Richard Danielpour, John Heiss, George Tsontakis, Samuel Adler and Roger Ames. He is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Music degree with a concentration in Music Education at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Music Style classical. modern. instrumental. vocal. electronic.

Albums soundshaping

Location Boston, MA - USA

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