Born in 1951 in Pasadena, California, Donald Crockett has collaborated with artists and ensembles as the Kronos, Arditti and Stanford quartets, violinist Ida Kavafian, mezzo soprano Janice Felty, Los Angeles Master Chorale, oboist Allan Vogel, the Debussy Trio and the Core Ensemble. He has also received commissions from the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble and many others. His music has been featured at festivals including Tanglewood, Aspen, Piccolo Spoleto and Music from Angel Fire. Celestial Mechanics for oboe and string quartet, commissioned by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, took second prize in the 1991 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards. He has twice been the winner of the Kenneth Davenport National Competition for Orchestral Works given by the Music in the Mountains Festival in New York, for Antiphonies in 1994 and for Roethke Preludes in 1998. His music is published by MMB Music, St. Louis, and recorded on the Albany, CRI, Laurel and Pro Arte/Fanfare labels. Also very active as a conductor of new music, Donald Crockett has presented numerous premieres with the Los Angeles-based new music ensemble Xtet, the University of Southern California Contemporary Music Ensemble, and with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
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