Jay Reise
- January 11, 2024
- American Composer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Jay Reise |
| Date Of Birth | Feb 9, 1950(1950-02-09) |
| Age | 74 |
| Birthplace | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | New York |
| Horoscope | Aquarius |
Jay Reise Biography
| Birthday | Feb 9 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
Jay Reise is one of the most popular and richest American composer who was born on February 9, 1950 in New York City, New York, United States. Reise spent his childhood surrounded by classical music and jazz, but began his composition studies with Jimmy Giuffre and Hugh Hartwell in
- After graduating Hamilton College in 1972, he pursued composition study at McGill University (with Bengt Hambraeus and Bruce Mather), the University of Pennsylvania (AM, 1975; George Crumb and Richard Wernick), Tanglewood, and Carnatic rhythm with Adrian L’Armand.
Performers include Charles Abramovic, Jody Applebaum, Ulrich Boeckheller, Gregory Fulkerson, Marc-André Hamelin, Jerome Lowenthal, Charles Ullery. the Cassatt Quartet, Four Horizons, Network for New Music and Orchestra 2001 among others.
Reise’s music draws on polyphonic classical traditions. After being influenced by the great western classical voice-leading tradition, he became interested in Carnatic rhythm and integrated its techniques into his style. This has resulted in a method he calls “rhythmic polyphony” in which rhythmic motives are developed within the phrase such that the cadence point of the phrase is implied by the rhythms alone.
Works after 1990 include The River Within (Concerto for Violin and Orchestra) (2008) premiered by soloist Maria Bachmann and Orchestra 2001, James Freeman conductor; Concerto for Horn and 7 Instruments (2006) with Adam Unsworth and the Network for New Music, Jan Krzywicki, conductor; Powers That Be (2005) for piano quintet with the Cassatt Quartet and Marc-André Hamelin; Memory Refrains (String Quartet in One Movement), (2002) with the Cassatt Quartet; the piano solo suite Six Pictures from ‘The Devil in the Flesh’ by Marc-André Hamelin; the Oscar Wilde-based ballet fairy-tale The Selfish Giant by the Philharmonia Orchestra with conductor Djong Victorin Yu in London in 1997; and two extended piano works, Sonata Rhythmikosmos (Mari Akagi) and Rhythmic Garlands (James Primosch). His left hand transcriptions of Scriabin’s Etudes Op. 2, No. 1 and Op. 8, No. 12 have been performed by Gary Graffman and Matthew Bengtson.
Jay Reise Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | American composer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jay Reise is one of the richest American composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jay Reise 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Works written before the adoption of the rhythmic method include Symphony of Voices (1978) which was premiered at the Monadnock Festival with soprano Neva Pilgrim, and his Second Symphony (1980) premiered by the Syracuse Symphony, conducted by Christopher Keene, and performed subsequently by the Philadelphia Orchestra. His Third Symphony was premiered by Keene and the Long Island Philharmonic in 1983. His 2-act opera Rasputin with a libretto by the composer, was commissioned by the late Beverly Sills and the New York City Opera, and was premiered by City Opera in 1988. Rasputin received its Russian premiere at the Helikon Opera in Moscow, directed by Dmitry Bertman, in September 2008.
Reise is married to visual artist Cecilia Paredes and has two sons, Matthew Reise (born 1981) and Nicholas Reise (born 1983).
Reise’s music is published by Merion Music/Theodore Presser. The Scriabin transcriptions are published in the Journal of the Scriabin Society of America.
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Gilles Ranked on the list of most popular American composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jay Reise celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.