David Stock
American composer and conductor David Stock was born on 3 June 1939.
Living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was professor of composition and conductor of the Contemporary Ensemble at Duquesne University. He founded and directed the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble from 1976 until retiring in 1999. He held two composer residencies with American orchestras - the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1987-8) and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra (1996-7).
His compositions include five symphonies, six string quartets, A Little Miracle for mezzo and chamber orchestra (1997) and Kickoff (1990), first performed at the New York Philharmonic's one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary.
David Stock died on 2 November 2015, aged seventy-six.
A selection of articles about David Stock
Three Questions before the First Night - Carson Cooman talks to Augusta Read Thomas about the forthcoming première of her new orchestral work 'Credences of Summer'
Three Questions before the First Night - Carson Cooman talks to Julia Scott Carey about the forthcoming première of her new Piano Concerto
Three Questions before the First Night - Carson Cooman talks to Nancy Galbraith about the forthcoming première of her new Requiem
Three Questions before the First Night - Carson Cooman talks to David Stock as the première of Stock's Fifth String Quartet approaches
CD Spotlight. American accents - Orchestral music by David Stock, reviewed by Carson Cooman. 'Strongly recommended.'
Record box. Deeply affecting - Remembering the Holocaust, by Keith Bramich
CD Spotlight. Speaking extravagantly - The string quartets of David Stock, appreciated by Ron Bierman