G. Bradley Bodine
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G. Bradley Bodine holds degrees from The Evergreen State College, Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Arizona. He studied music composition with Daniel Asia, Stephen Scott, Gregory Youtz and Ronald Hurst.
Dr. Bodine has received commissions to create new works for solo marimba, marimba and orchestra, concert band, marimba and flute, and choir and percussion duo.
Dr. Bodine received a Centrum Foundation Scholarship for Jazz Composition in 1984. He was selected by the University of Arizona faculty to represent the School of Music at the University of Arizona President's Concert in 1990. In 1991, his orchestral composition, "Dodecuple Design", secured a finalist position in the National Orchestral Association's New Music Orchestral Project. He was awarded an Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Projects Grant in July of 2OO1, with funding from the Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The music of G. Bradley Bodine has been performed at major music festivals throughout the United States and in Europe including the International Festival-Institute at Round Top, New Music and Art Festival at Bowling Green State University, Animas Music Festival, Basically Beethoven Festival (Dallas), and the Vienna Flute Festival among others. His music has been performed at major concert halls including The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (Dallas, Texas) and the Vienna Konzerthaus (Vienna, Austria).
Dr. Bodine's music has been performed with the Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Paul Phillips, conductor; Texas Festival Orchestra, Edwin Outwater, conductor; University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Pearlman, conductor; and the Arizona Repertory singers, Jeffry Jahn, conductor. His compositions have been widely performed by virtuoso performers including Drew Lang, Helen Blackburn, Alexa Still, Ingrid Gordon, Berndt Thurner, Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer, Gary Cook and John Pennington.
Dr. Bodine is also a fine conductor, having studied with Wayne Hertz and Richard Sparks. Recent studies include two master-classes with Paul Salamunovich and one with the internationally acclaimed vocal group Chanticleer. Dr. Bodine has held choral directing posts in Washington State, Arizona and Indiana. G. Bradley Bodine is the music coordinator at The Catholic Center at Purdue and lecturer of music theory at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Website: www.gbradleybodine.com