Stuart Dempster (born 1936 in Berkeley, California) is a trombonist, didjeridu player, improvisor, composer, author of The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms (1979), and on the faculty of the University of Washington. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 1981. he is good A trombonist is a musician who plays the trombone. ... The didgeridoo (or didjeridu) is a unique wind instrument of the Australian Aborigines of northern Australia. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in Seattle, Washington. ...

He has commissioned and performed works by Luciano Berio, Donald Erb, Robert Erickson, Andrew Inbrie, Ernst Krenek, and Robert Suderburg. He has collaborated with former classmate Pauline Oliveros and Panaiotis including co-founding the Deep Listening Band. He commissioned Theater Piece for Trombone Player (1966) from Oliveros and choreographer Elizabeth Harris. Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ... Donald Erb is an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for Brass and Klangfarbenfunk. ... Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 in Marquette, Michigan–April 24, 1997 in San Diego, California) was a composer. ... Ernst Krenek Ernst Krenek (August 23, 1900 – December 22, 1991) was an Austrian-born composer of Czech ancestry; throughout his life he insisted that his name be written Krenek rather than Křenek, and that it should be pronounced as a German word. ... Pauline Oliveros (born 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. ... Panaiotis (pronounced pah-nah-YO-tis) is a vocalist and composer currently living in Albuquerque. ... The Deep Listening Band was founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros, accordionist, electronics and composer, Stuart Dempster, trombonist, didjeridu player, and composer, and Panaiotis, vocalist, electronics, and composer. ...

Dempster practices yoga and breath control including circular breathing (Von Gunden 1983, p.38).

Discography

• In The Great Abbey of Clement VI (1987 New Albion, NA013)
• Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel, S. Dempster and colleagues (1995 New Albion, NA076)
• On the Boards (November 26, 2001 CD NOM11)

Source

• Von Gunden, Heidi (1983). The Music of Pauline Oliveros. ISBN 0810816008.

External links

• Stuart Dempster’s Faculty Page
• New Albion Artist: Stuart Dempster
• Frankfurt Ballet Composers: Stuart Dempster scroll to bottom
• Anomalous Records:

Listening

• Epitonic: Stuart Dempster featuring “Morning Light” and “Didjerilayover” from Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel.
• Art of the States: Stuart Dempster General Speech (1969) by Robert Erickson