NICK STRIMPLE

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FILM & TELEVISION CREDITS

 

Recordings (1987 - 1995)

1993: Lou Rawls: Christmas Is the Time, Capitol Records - Blue Note (Arranger/Consultant)

 

1993: Hail, Sacred Feast, (composer) included on With Heart and Voices: Anthems Across America, Madrigalia. Roger Wilhelm, conductor

 

1992: George Burns and Bobby Vinton: I Know What It Is to Be Young, Curb Records (Orchestrator)

 

1991: The Mike Curb Congregation: Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Curb Records (Choral Arranger)

 

1991: Rod Stewart: The Rhythm of My Heart, [Vagabond Heart CD] Warner Brothers Records. (Platinum)(Director)

 

1989: The Iron Triangle Soundtrack Album, Scotti Brothers Records (Composer/Conductor)

 

1987: Air Supply: The Christmas Album, Arista Records (Arranger/Conductor)

 

 

RECENT PREMIERES

Three Sexton Songs

(Anne Struggles with the Downward Slide)

St. Paul's Music Festival

Worcester, MA - June 08

 

In My Craft or Sullen Art

(text by Dylan Thomas)

 

Harpsichord Concerto

Sacred Works of Nick Strimple

Amarillo, TX - February 07

 

RECENT COMMISSIONS

Fantasia for Flute and Piano, commissioned by Jack Lachter for the Beverly Hills International Music Festival

 

Music for the Blue Rose, for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Mixed Chorus, commissioned for the Blue Rose Trio and the Choral Society of Southern California by Wilbur Richardson

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century (Amadeus Press, 2008)

 

Dvořák's Saint Ludmila: Genesis, Premiere, and Aftermath

(American Choral Review, Winter/Spring 2006)

 

RECENT MUSIC PUBLICATIONS

Three Contemplations on Southern Folk Hymns, for organ. Published by ECS Publishing 2007

 

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, for baritone solo, mixed chorus and organ. Published by National Music Company 2006 (Distributed by Emerson Music)

 

RECENT RECORDINGS

Christmas, consultant on Kimberly Locke's (American Idol) 2007 Holiday album

 

The Nativity Story, choral conductor (New Line Cinema, 2006)

 

Max Helfman: Die Naye Hagode, conductor (Naxos American Classics, 2006)

 

RECENT REVIEWS WRITTEN

"Gurrelieder" in the Walt Disney Hall, a review of the Los Angeles Philharmonic performance at ACDA Convention

(American Choral Review, Summer/Fall 2005)

 

PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE

 

5Nick Strimple during rehearsal with James Stewart, 1978.

 
 

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