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DAVID PLYLAR is an accomplished composer, scholar, pianist and educator. His
award-winning compositions range from solo pieces to large orchestral
works and independent film scores. David has received awards and
recognition from the Meet the Composer Foundation, ASCAP, the American
Music Center, the Minnesota Orchestra Reading Sessions and the Hanson
Institute for American Music, among other organizations. He holds
degrees from Duke University, the University of Louisville, and the
Eastman School of Music, where he earned his PhD. As an active champion of new works, David is the co-artistic director and pianist for the ensemble Out of Context. Specializing
in new works and transcriptions, this flexible-instrumentation group
has toured across the United States presenting concerts and master
classes since 2007. The ensemble frequently collaborates with other
musicians and composers; this year's performance tours took them to
Colorado, Montana and New York, where they performed in venues ranging
from hardware stores to the concert hall. When
not composing or performing, David enjoys studying and writing about
the music of his contemporaries and 19th/20th century music. An
adaptation of his dissertation (exploring compositional, theoretical
and musicological features of Franz Liszt's Three Funeral Odes) will be published in Volume 59 of the Journal of the American Liszt Society. www.davidplylar.com
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