Michael Gandolfi

Michael James Gandolfi (born July 5, 1956) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He chairs the composition department at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC). Gandolfi was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. He taught himself guitar as a child, studied for a year at the Berklee College of Music, and then entered NEC, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1986, he was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied with Leonard Bernstein and Oliver Knussen. He has served on the faculty of Harvard University, Indiana University, and the Phillips Academy at Andover. He was composer in residence with the New England Philharmonic from 1997-2000. Since 1997, Gandolfi has been the coordinator for the Tanglewood Music Center's composition department. He has been championed by conductor Robert Spano as one of the "Atlanta School" of American composers, a group that includes Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis and Adam Schoenberg. Gandolfi's music often contains rock and jazz elements. He sometimes looks to the sciences for his subject matter. His The Garden of Cosmic Speculation was inspired by Charles Jencks' garden in Scotland that incorporates modern physics into its design. It was nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 2009 Grammy Awards, His Trivia, written for the Weilerstein Trio, uses Richard Wolfson's book Simply Einstein as a source. Gandolfi has also written a significant amount of children's music, including a setting of Carlo Collodi's 1949 version of the Pinocchio story. His works have been performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, The New World Symphony, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and many others. Gandolfi resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a member of ASCAP.

Latin Dances - 2024-10-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Roco Unchambered: Force of Nature (Live) - 2021-08-02T00:00:00.000000Z

2019 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA): Texas State University Wind Symphony [Live] - 2020-12-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Gandolfi, Prior & Oliverio: Orchestral Works - 2020-03-27T00:00:00.000000Z

NM Janitsjar 2019 - 3 divisjon - 2019-04-14T00:00:00.000000Z

2018 Music for All (Indianapolis, IN): Lockport Township High School Wind Symphony [Live] - 2018-11-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Masks & Machines - 2017-01-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Words Fail - 2016-10-28T00:00:00.000000Z

2015 WASBE San Jose, USA: Brooklyn Wind Symphony (Live) - 2015-11-13T00:00:00.000000Z

2014 Midwest Clinic: The United States Navy Band (Live) - 2015-08-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Morning Sun Upon the Wild Prairie Rose - 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

2014 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA): All-State 5A Symphonic Band [Live] - 2014-06-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Borrowed Inspirations - 2013-09-24T00:00:00.000000Z

2012 Midwest Clinic: The United States Air Force Band - 2013-07-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Musical Narratives - 2013-06-10T00:00:00.000000Z

2012 Midwest Clinic: Lone Star Wind Orchestra - 2013-05-07T00:00:00.000000Z

2010 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA): Texas Community College Band Directors Association (TCCBDA) All-State Symphonic Band - 2013-01-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Voicings - 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Lost Vegas - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

With Strings Attached - 2011-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Dance Mix - 2011-08-02T00:00:00.000000Z

United States Air Force Band of Mid-America: Exploration and Discovery - 2011-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Plain Song, Fantastic Dances: Chamber Music by American Composers - 2011-01-19T00:00:00.000000Z