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1. David Cornwall – David Randolph Cornwall was an American composer and systems engineer. He wrote music for piano, horns, woodwinds and orchestra, Cornwall was born in Denver, Colorado. After studying math and physics at Harvard College for one and a half years, returning to Denver, he worked a systems engineer for United Airlines while performing for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra and studying under its conductor, Antonia Brico. After receiving a discharge from the army, Cornwall returned to the airline industry. Later in his career he received an MBA in economics from the University of Chicago, upon his retirement in 2001, Cornwall returned to music, this time as a composer. Over the next five years, he composed dozens of works at the Denver University Lamont School of Music, in late September 2006, several weeks after producing a draft of his final composition, Lullaby for Kayleigh, Cornwall developed severe sepsis following intestinal surgery. He died of complications from his illness on November 7,2006 in Lone Tree, Colorado, as part of his funeral the following week, his Fugue in Four Parts was performed on the pipe organ at the Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, Denver. Johns Cathedral, Denver Parade of the Wedding Party, performed by the Lamont Symphony Orchestra
2. Stuart Dempster – Stuart Dempster is a trombonist, didjeridu player, improvisor, and composer. After Dempster completed his studies at San Francisco State College, he was appointed assistant professor at the California State College at Hayward, and instructor at the San Francisco Conservatory. During this period he was also a member of the Performing Group at Mills College, in 1967–68 he was a Creative Associate at the State University of New York at Buffalo under Lukas Foss. The following year he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Washington, in Seattle, in 1971–72 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, and in 1973 he was a senior Fulbright scholar to Australia. In 1979 the University of California Press published his book, The Modern Trombone and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 1981. He has commissioned and performed works by Luciano Berio, Rob du Bois, Donald Erb, Robert Erickson, Andrew Imbrie, Ernst Krenek and he has collaborated with former classmate Pauline Oliveros and Panaiotis including co-founding the Deep Listening Band. He commissioned Theater Piece for Trombone Player from Oliveros and choreographer Elizabeth Harris, Dempster practices yoga and breath control including circular breathing. He is credited with introducing the didjeridu to North America, the Modern Trombone, A Definition of Its Idioms. Berkeley and Los Angeles, The University of California Press,1979, in The Great Abbey of Clement VI Robert Suderburg, Chamber Music III, for trombone and piano. Also with Suderburgs Chamber Music IV, for ensemble, Chamber music V, for voice, string quartet. Elizabeth Suderburg, soprano, Ciompi String Quartet, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble, underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel, S. Pran, Raga For The Rainy Season. Biographical Information about Stuart Dempster, Stuart Dempster faculty page, University of Washington, all Fellows, Fellows 301–350 of 799. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. Von Gunden, Heidi, The Music of Pauline Oliveros, Metuchen, art of the States, Stuart Dempster General Speech by Robert Erickson