Artist History Oliver Lake: composer, saxophonist and poet. Co-founder of the renowned World Saxophone Quartet. Guggenheim fellow for composition. Oliver has been selected as composer in residence @ Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey by new residency's program of Meet The Composer. This will be a three year residency, beginning Jan 2000. Commissioned by Library of Congress and Mc Kim Foundation for violin and piano composition. Premiered orchestra piece, "Cross Stitch" in spring 1994 for the Wheeling Symphony. His piece for violin and piano, "Movements,Turns & Switches", premiered in fall of 1993 at Academy of Arts and Sciences in Washington D.C. Received numerous composition commissions from the N.E.A. and Meet the Composer of New York. His compositions are included in the Smithsonian collection. Various artists have performed his works, including the Arditti String Quartet, World Sax Quartet, Amherst Sax Quartet, Regina Carter, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Wheeling Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Players, New York New Music Ensemble, and Pulse Percussion Ensemble of New York. Mr. Lake has performed throughout the world, touring Africa,Japan, Australia and Europe He has also performed and/or recorded and arranged for such diverse artists as, pop singer Bjork, rocker Lou Reed, jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln and rap group, Tribe Called Quest. Since 1995 Oliver Lake has been performing a solo theater piece that he created, "Matador of 1st & 1st" directed by Oz Scott.

Instruments Saxophone

Location Montclair, New Jersey - USA

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