barret anspach
Barret Anspach (composer and writer) grew up in Bellevue, Washington, with decidedly pan-artistic interests. While city-planning with Legos and concocting an alternate history of the world (complete with maps and language), he dove nose-first into music, completing his first piano piece at age seven with scented colored markers and highlighters on cardboard. Barret then underwent a stylistic shift ('too conceptual'), and began to write things that could be performed more than once. Seattle Symphony bassoonist Seth Krimsky commented during a rehearsal that his Three Bagatelles "sound a lot like that Mobil Masterpiece intro." Barret is currently enrolled in Juilliard's accelerated graduate program, scheduled to graduate this May with an MM in Composition. He has studied with Seattle Symphony Composer-in-Residence Samuel Jones, Peter F. Wolf (ne Nagy-Farkas), Eric Flesher and Robert Beaser, and has been in the studio of Samuel Adler for the past five years. Barret has had performances, and performed, in divers venues about town at Joe's Pub, the Gershwin Hotel, Galapagos Art Space, Symphony Space, etc. In Barret received an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and has been commissioned by artists and ensembles in both New York and the Pacific Northwest. His compositions have been presented by the Seattle Philharmonic, members of the Seattle Symphony and New York Youth Symphony, and various chamber ensembles. He lives in New York, and is in the midst of writing a novel. Specialties Composition, writing, music copy-work, graphic design. read more ...
  • music
  • composition
  • writing
  • chamber music
  • Lakeside School
  • The Juilliard School
  • Assistant Manager At American Apparel
  • Writing And Communications Center Fellow At The Juilliard School

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Arrest Records

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