James Mobberley

James Mobberley is an American composer of contemporary concert music, and serves as Curators' Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, home to one of the largest and best known music composition programs in the U.S.[1] A Rome Prize winner, Guggenheim Fellow and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award recipient, he writes music that spans many media, from orchestra and electro-acoustic music to music for dance, film, and video. His works have received over 1400 performances worldwide.[2]

Commissions: Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, Koussevitzky Foundation/Library of Congress, Barlow Endowment, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous ensembles and individual performers.

Selected as a 2009 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Center, he has also been a Resident Composer with the Kansas City Symphony (1992-1999), and a Visiting Composer with both the Taiwan National Symphony (1999) and the Fort Smith Symphony (2000).[3]

Awards: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy in Rome Fellow in Composition, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and awards from League-ISCM, the Van Cliburn Foundation, the Shanghai Spring Festival, and numerous other organizations.

He has served on professional panels and nominating committees for organizations that include the American Academy in Rome, the Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Civitella Ranieri Center, the Fulbright Fellowships, New Music USA, the MacDowell Colony, the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, I-Park, the Fisher Competition and the Missouri Arts Council.[4]

Two dozen recordings feature his music, including the Black Canyon, Bridge, Capstone, Centaur, Everglade, and Troppa Note labels, as well as an all-Mobberley recording on the Albany label recorded by the Czech National Symphony. Most of his music can be heard on https://www.soundcloud.com/jim-mobberley.

His music is primarily self-distributed, with additional publications by Roger Dean, and Edipan (Rome). Mobberley maintains a web site at http://www.jamesmobberleymusic.com.

• with Earl Henry: Musicianship: ear training, rhythmic reading, and sight singing, Volume 1, Prentice-Hall, 1986. 306 p., ISBN 978-0-136-08563-8

• Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan: Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens, 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
• David M. Cummings, Dennis K. McIntire: International who's who in music and musician's directory – (in the classical and light classical fields), Twelfth edition 1990/91, Cambridge, England: International Who's Who in Music, 1991. 1096 p., ISBN 0-948875-20-8

• Biografie op de internetpagina van de muziekuitgeverij Lorenz/Roger Dean Publishing Company Archived January 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
• Biografie on the internet pages of "Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity"
• James Mobberley at IMDb