Biography
Website: www.davidheuser.com
Critics have praised David Heuser’s music, calling it "thoughtful, beautiful and wonderfully made", "all-American music at its most dynamic and visceral" and "just the sort of music classical music needs more of."
David Heuser began composing almost immediately after his first piano lessons at the age of seven, writing short tunes in imitation of the exercises he was studying. He continued to write music throughout his childhood, some for piano, chorus, and wind ensemble, and some for the rock bands he was in. After high school, he attended the Eastman School of Music and then the Indiana University School of Music, where he received his doctorate degree in music composition in 1995. A native of New Jersey, Heuser has resided in San Antonio since 1997. He is a Professor at
the University of Texas at San Antonio , where he teaches
music composition and theory, and electronic music, and serves as Associate Chair of the Music Department.
Heuser is a storyteller, crafting emotional journeys for listeners, but his stories go beyond words to things only music can speak to. His over 70 compositions range from exuberant orchestral works to intimate chamber pieces. His most characteristic works are rhythmically active, strongly melodic, and often deal with extremes of tempo, dynamics and register. Just as a painter fills space, a composer fills time, and it is Heuser’s goal to lead the listener through the time his music occupies in a way that is compelling and moving.
Heuser's music has been performed by various groups and individuals and on festivals and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. He has received commissions from such ensembles as the San Antonio Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony, the SOLI Chamber Ensemble, and the Texas Music Festival Orchestra. Heuser has won the 2007 Columbia Orchestra American Composer Competition, the 2006 Fauxharmonic Orchestra Composition Contest, and, most recently, was awarded a grant from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. He most recent work is the full-length comic opera A Brief History of Root Vegetables .
Heuser’s music is published by Non Sequitur Music, and works of his can be found on recordings on the Albany , Capstone , and Equilibrium labels. Heuser is a founding member of the Composers Alliance of San Antoino (CASA) , and his work O The White Towns can be found on that group's first CD "Works by San Antonio Composers Performed by San Antonio Performers"
CDs containing works by David Heuser:
Klassics4Kids with The Golden Ax
Tango Magnetism with Deep Blue Spiral
not here, but there
Twilight Remembered with Still Life with Fruit
The Voice of the Composer: New Music from Bowling Green, Vol. 2 with Cauldron
Juggernaut with Deep Blue Spiral
Composers' Alliance of San Antonio: Works by San Antonio Composers Performed by San Antonio Performers with O The White Towns
Works by Genre
Orchestra and String Orchestra
Large Mixed Ensemble
Band
Chamber Ensemble
Piano
Strings
Winds
Percussion
Vocal
Choral
Opera
Works with Tape and/or Electonics
Click on the title of any work for detailed information.
Orchestral Music
Three Lopsided Dances
Rental: $150.00; Purchase: $350.00
2008, 18 minutes (3 Movements)
Orchestra: 3333 4331, hrp, pno, timp, 4 perc, strings
audio available
Elegy, September 11
Rental: $40.00; Purchase: $75.00
2001, 7 minutes
String Orchestra
audio available
Cauldron
Rental: $80.00; Purchase: $200.00
1995, 7 minutes
Orchestra: 3232 4231, pno, harp, timp, 3 perc, strings
audio available
Moon Cycles
Rental: $150.00; Purchase: $350.00
1995 (revised 1998), 18 minutes (3 movements)
Orchestra: 3233 4231, pno, harp, timp, 3 perc, strings
audio available
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Music for Large Mixed Ensembles
Chaoborus
Rental: $50.00 ; Purchase: $100.00
1993, 8 minutes
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violin, viola, cello,
double bass
audio available
Band and Wind Ensemble Music
Fever Tokens
Rental: $75.00; Purchase: $150.00
1992, 9 minutes
Wind Ensemble: 4 fl, 3 ob, 4 cl, 5 sax (2, 2, 1), 2 bsn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 trb, 2 bari hn, tb, 4 perc
Dragons
Rental: $100.00; Purchase: $200.00
1987, 16 minutes (3 movements)
Wind Ensemble: picc, 3 fl (3rd dbl picc), 3 ob (3rd dbl Eh), Eb cl, 3 Bb cl, bass cl, 5 sax (2, 2, 1), 3 bsn (3rd dbl cbsn), 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 trb, tb, piano, timp, 4 perc
audio available
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Music for Mixed Chamber Ensembles
Catching Updrafts
Purchase: $30.00
2000, 13 minutes
Bb clarinet, violin, cello, piano
audio available
Carnivore
Purchase: $30.00
1994, 7 minutes
amplified piano, synthesizer, electric guitar, electric bass, 2 percussion
Ceremony
Rental: $30.00; Purchase: $50.00
1994, 15 minutes
2 flutes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 4 percussion
Ocean
Rental: $30.00; Purchase: $50.00
1993, 17 minutes (3 movements)
flute/piccolo/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion
audio available
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Piano Music
November Sonata
Purchase: $10.00
2004, 10 minutes, 30 seconds
piano
audio available
Piano Sonata
Purchase: $10.00
2001, 17 minutes
piano
audio available
Orbits
Purchase: $7.00
1995, 7 minutes
piano solo
Skallagrimsson
Purchase: $20.00
1993, 6 minutes, 30 seconds
piano and tape
audio available
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String Music
Thin Green Traces
Purchase: $20.00
2006, 25 minutes (5 movements)
violin, piano
audio available
Wheel
Purchase: $15.00
1993, 8 minutes
violin, piano
audio available
Te Po-teki
Purchase: $7.00
1992, 7 minutes
violin
audio available
Regicide
Purchase: $5.00
1990, 10 minutes
cello
Spoon
Purchase: $8.00
1997, 6 minutes
cello, double bass
Piano Trio
Purchase: $20.00
1997, 7 minutes
violin, cello, piano
audio available
Vital Signs
Purchase: $8.00
1991, 4 minutes
2 violins, cello
String Quartet No. 1
Purchase: $25.00
1988, 20 minutes (3 movements)
2 violins, viola, cello
audio available
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Music for Winds
To Light
Purchase: $20.00
2008, 2 minutes
double brass quintet
Flood
Purchase: $15.00
2005, 9 minutes
flute, percussion (marimba and vibraphone, one player)
audio available
Flood
Purchase: $15.00
2006, 9 minutes
clarinet, percussion (marimba and vibraphone, one player)
audio available
Still Life with Fruit
Purchase: $10.00
1996, 6 minutes
flute, percussion (bell tree, 3 sus. cym., cowbell, wood blk., small gong, 3 tomtoms, bass dr., vibes)
audio available
Cutting the Circle
Purchase: $10.00
1997, 9 minutes, 30 seconds
oboe, piano
audio available
Sanddef
Purchase: $3.00
1989, 3 minutes, 30 seconds
bass clarinet
Morfran
Purchase: $3.00
1987, 4 minutes
bass clarinet
audio available
Spork
Purchase: $8.00
1995, 6 minutes
bassoon, contrabassoon (duet)
audio available
Deep Blue Spiral
Purchase: $20.00
1998, 7 minutes, 30 seconds
alto saxophone and tape
audio available
Woodwind Quintet
Purchase: $40.00
1997, 20 minutes (4 movements)
flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon
Octet
Purchase: $45.00
1997, 20 minutes (4 movements)
flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones
audio available
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Percussion Music
Not here, but there
Purchase: $40.00
2006, 10 minutes
percussion ensemble (12 players)
audio available
Flood
Purchase: $15.00
2005, 9 minutes
marimba and vibraphone (2 players)
audio available
Flood
Purchase: $15.00
2005, 9 minutes
flute, percussion (marimba and vibraphone, one player)
audio available
Flood
Purchase: $15.00
2006, 9 minutes
clarinet, percussion (marimba and vibraphone, one player)
audio available
Baby Toys
Purchase: $10.00
2003, 4 minutes
Percussion Quartet (Instrumentation: 8 baby rattles, 4 squeaky toys,
4 electronic toys, 1 see 'n say toy, 1 toy bell, 1 toy xylophone, 1 toy piano (with three or four keys), 1 pair of toy cymbals, 1 toy drum, 1 toy whistle, 1 wind-up baby's mobile)
audio available
Going to Vermont
Purchase: $20.00
2003, 9 minutes, 30 seconds
amplified marimba, computer music (tape)
audio available
Blow-up
Purchase: $8.00
1996, 10 minutes
multi-percussion solo (snare dr, 4 tomtoms, bass dr., sus. cym., splash cym., bell plate,
tam-tam, 2 thunder sheets, tamb., 2 cowbells, temple blk., glock, vibes, chimes)
Blow-up
Purchase: $8.00
1996, 10 minutes
MIDI percussion
Still Life with Fruit
Purchase: $10.00
1996, 6 minutes
flute, percussion (bell tree, 3 sus. cym., cowbell, wood blk., small gong, 3
tomtoms,
bass dr., vibes)
audio available
Secrets
Purchase: $15.00
1990, 6 minutes
Percussion Sextet (crotales, vibraphone, chimes, three triangles, three gongs, four
cymbals, and four brake drums)
audio available
Totem
Purchase: $15.00
1989, 4 minutes
Percussion Sextet (two xylophones, two marimbas, two log drums, five timple
blocks, and two wood blocks)
audio available
The Way of the Animal Powers
Purchase: $15.00
1989, 3 minutes, 30 seconds
Percussion Sextet (4 bongoes, 4 timbales, two sets of 4 tomtoms, and two sets of
3 timpani)
audio available
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Vocal Music
Arrows
Purchase: $15.00 / $30.00
2006, 23 minutes
baritone, piano or baritone, clarinet, cello, piano
audio available
The Stars
Purchase: $3.00
2000, 2 minutes
voice, piano
Music transposed to suit any vocal range
Animals
Purchase: $3.00
2000, 2 minutes, 30 seconds
voice, piano
Music transposed to suit any vocal range
Sonnet
Purchase: $3.00
1999, 2 minutes, 30 seconds
voice, piano
Music transposed to suit any vocal range
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Choral Music
Hecuba's Lament
Purchase: $0.75
2000, 3 minutes
(in quantity)
women's chorus (SSAA), piano
audio available
Opera
A Brief History of Root Vegetables
2010, three act comic opera, roughly 2 1/2 hours
13 named parts + chorus
14 player ensemble (1111 1110 pno perc strings)
audio available
The Golden Ax
Rental: $100.00; Purchase: $200.00
2006, 25 minute one act opera
baritone, soprano, woodwind quintet
audio available
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Works with Tape and/or Electronics
Going to Vermont
Purchase: $20.00
2003, 9 minutes, 30 seconds
amplified marimba, computer music (tape)
audio available
Deep Blue Spiral
Purchase: $20.00
1998, 7 minutes, 30 seconds
alto saxophone and tape
audio available
Blow-up
Purchase: $8.00
1996, 10 minutes
MIDI percussion
Skallagrimsson
Purchase: $20.00
1993, 6 minutes, 30 seconds
piano and tape
audio available
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