composer
David Heuser
David Heuser's (b. 1966) music has been performed by various groups and individuals and on festivals and conferences throughout the US and abroad. He has won a variety of awards, grants and commissions including an ASCAP Young Composer Award, many ASCAP Standard Grants, a First Music commission from the New York Youth Symphony, an Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival “New Texas Overture” Commission, and the Delius Composition Contest Chamber Music Award.
Michael Souther in the Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) called Heuser's orchestral work Cauldron "an exciting, dynamic tour-de-force," and Charles Ward of the Houston Chronicle called A Screaming Comes Across the Sky (also for orchestra) “all-American music at its most dynamic and visceral.” Reviewer Mike Greenberg, writing in the San Antonio Express-News, called Cúchulainn's Warp-Spasm (for spoken voice, effects and tape) “harrowing,” and went on to write: “Technical details aside, the piece is just plain compelling. It fully and effectively conveys the dark, violent, monstrous atmosphere of the text.” And Andrew Druckenbrod, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, reviewing a performance of Heuser’s Immaculate, Bored, Off-key and Vain, said “This work is just the sort of music classical music needs more of.”
Both the San Antonio Express-News (in 2002 and 2004) and the Pittsburg Post-Gazette (in 2004) singled out works of Heuser’s for special mention when the concerts they were on were named to end-of-the-year top-ten lists. A product of New Jersey, Heuser’s degrees are from Eastman and Indiana University, and his teachers include Samuel Adler, Claude Baker, Joseph Schwantner, David Liptak, Warren Benson, Frederick Fox, Wayne Peterson and Don Freund. He currently resides in San Antonio, where he teaches theory and composition courses and runs the electronic music studio at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Before coming to UTSA he taught at West Chester University (PA) and Temple University. Heuser's music is published by Non Sequitur Music and has been recorded on the Albany Records (Cauldron), Capstone (Still Life With Fruit), and Equilibrium (Deep Blue Spiral) labels, as well as the CASA CD Works by San Antonio Composers Performed by San Antonio Performers, which contains his song O The White Towns.
For more information, including recordings, reviews, please visit David Heuser's website.
