Bruce Reiprich
Featured on New Music Arizona Concert, June 20, 2010, 3:00 PM

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A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Wilkes University, Bruce Reiprich joined the Northern Arizona University faculty in 1999 and served as coordinator of music theory and composition from 2002 to 2007. He is a co-chair of Region VII of the Society of Composers, Inc. and he has been a judge for numerous composition contests including various Music Teachers National Association and Society of Composers’ student competitions. During the summer, he has served as composer-in-residence at the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Iowa.

Bruce Reiprich's music has been heard abroad with performances in China, Germany, England, Turkey, and Mexico, and in major cities throughout the United States. His music has been described as “post-romantic radiance” (Danbury News-Times), “a deeply personal mediation on the poet’s feelings” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “very powerful” (All Music Guide), “lovely and evocative” (Guitar Review-New York), “very impressive” (Cumhuriyet-Turkey), and “of special interest” (Guitar International-England). With compositions that span the gamut from overt tonality and metric regularity to atonality and pronounced rhythmic flexibility, he explores the beauty of lyrical lines, lush harmonies and colorful textures. Much of Reiprich’s music is a reflection upon images of nature found in the Turkish poetry of Oguz Tansel and in classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. Recently, he has been influenced by the long sentences with spiraling subordinate clauses that Marcel Proust employed in his Remembrance of Things Past. Ultimately, it is the serene and contemplative–the unexpected moment of self-contained and quiescent beauty in nature and art–that serve as Reiprich’s inspiration.