Music

Anza-Borrego: Seasons in the Desert, score for feature length film, Chris Pyle, filmmaker,(Emmy Award for composition/arranging, 2001)

Chants Music for solo piano, performed by Peter Gach, Palomar College

Downstream, music for interactive multimedia performance with movement and image, California State University, San Marcos

San Diego’s Coastal Wonder, score for feature length film, Chris Pyle, filmmaker

Thunder: Perfect Mind (interactive sound installation) commissioned for Hamilton College, NY

Chaosmos, internet art piece with Deborah Small, for exhibit at Chapman College

The Primary Colors (performance with projection by artist Deborah Small) for Sax, Percussion and Synthesizers, California Center for the Arts, Escondido

5-4-3 (Five Notes for Three Players) for Flute, Piano and Bass, California Center for the Arts, Escondido

Rowing in Eden (multimedia work with artist Deborah Small and actress Dana Case), INsite 97 Art Festival, Palomar College Noon Concert Series, TILT Conference, Cal Poly Pomona

LEAVES for Piano, Narrator, and Orchestra, commission in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Palomar College

Dark Earth for Brass Quintet, selected for performance at the College Music Society Annual Conference (pending ensemble approval), Atlanta, GA

multimedia mis•ce•ge•NATION, multimedia collaboration with David Avalos, Deborah Small, Stuart Bender, TILT conference, Cal Poly Pomona, and Digital World, Los Angeles Conference Center

Metamorphosis, tape installation with Deborah Small (artist), Timken Gallery, Balboa Park, San Diego

ChasePlay for Piano, Palomar College, Mira Costa College and California State University,

Earth Prayer II for Baritone and Piano, Palomar College,

Earth Prayer I for Electronic Tape

Tawantinsuyo (with Don Funes) for Andean Instruments and Electronics

Midsummer Music for Harp, Palomar College

Five Preludes for Piano, CSU, San Bernardino

Huracan for Wind Ensemble

Dreams of the Open Sea for Vibraphone Solo, Utah Contemporary Music Consortium

Three Pieces for Marimba and Vibraphone (one player), Idaho State University, University of Oklahoma

Incidental music, The Jero Plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Theater Cornell

Three Movements for Chamber Orchestra, Cornell University

DOJOJI for Chamber Ensemble and Slide Projections, Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY

GATES for String Orchestra, Cornell University

Summer Music, tape installation, Society for New Music Concert, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY

Groundwork for tape, Ed Henry and Dancers, Danspace, St. Mark's Church, New York, NY

Network Music, tape installation, Guggenheim Museum (New York), State Museum (Albany), Hallwalls (Buffalo), Johnson Museum (Ithaca), Pyramid Art Center (Rochester), Kleinert Art Gallery (Woodstock, NY)

November Music for Percussion and Tape, Gordon Stout, percussion, Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY

The Falling for Flute, Viola, Cello, Harp and Piano, Tenth Anniversary Commission, Music in the Great Hall Series, Ellicott City, MD

Mood Variations for Fantasy Violin, University of Maryland

Cetacea for Tape and Dancers, Baltimore New Music Festival

Quartet for Flute, Trumpet, Piano and Vibraphone, Wichita State University, KA

Restaurant for Tape and Actor, Seventh Annual Electronic Music Plus Festival, University of Maryland at College Park, reviewed in Musical America

Suite from Antigone for Tape, First Prize winner, First Annual Electronic Music Festival, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Skibbereen and various other Irish session groups, mandolin, octave mandolin, banjo

FINC, Faculty Improvisation Ensemble, CSUSM, Palomar and Mira Costa Colleges

E3 (Eclectic Electric Ensemble), Director, student electronic music improvisation group

Performing member of CSUSM gamelan

Electronic improvisation ensemble (with Don Funes)

Stoney Point, banjo player in string band specializing in traditional Appalachian and Irish folk music

Performing member of the Cornell Javanese Gamelan, studies with Sumarsam (Wesleyan University) and Martin Hatch

Music Director/Conductor, Cornell University, Theatre Arts Department, Merrily We Roll Along, Mother Courage, Becoming Memories

Assistant Conductor, Cornell University, Cornell Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, conducted works by Prokofiev, Mozart, Debussy, others

Founder and conductor, Cornell University Clarinet Ensemble

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William Bradbury is an Emmy Award winning composer who is professor of music and music technology at California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM). Bill Bradbury is a graduate of Hamilton College, Miami University and Cornell University (Doctorate in Composition). William Bradbury is also an accomplished mandolin player with an interest in American music. At California State University, San Marcos (CSUSM) Bill Bradbury teaches courses in music technology, American music, composition, theory, and directs the electronic music ensemble. William Bradbury is married to actor Dana Case and has a son Chase Bradbury. He is a distant relative of the hymn composer William B. Bradbury (William Batchelder Bradbury). His mother Hope Bradbury lives in Barneveld, NY. He attended Poland Central School as a youth. -William Bradbury (Bill)