BIO

Garry Eister: Brief BIO

Garry Eister's compositions have been performed and/or recorded by:

The Emerson String Quartet
Kent Nagano
The Cleveland Chamber Symphony
The San Francisco Guitar Quartet
Daniel Lentz's ensembles
The San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival Orchestra
The Glass Duo
Just Strings
The USC New Music Ensemble
The Cuesta Master Chorale
The San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony
The Sinfonia di vetro
Glass Armonicist Dennis James
Flautist Fred Lau
Percussionist Doug Ovens
The Odeon String Quartet
The Smith Quartet
The Synchronia new music ensemble of St. Louis
Verophonist Philipp Alexander Marguerre
Steel drummer Patty Dee
Violinist Brynn Albanese
Nancy Nagano and Kyomi Kato- cello/piano duo
Guitarists Lily Afshar, James Edwards, Jesus Saiz-Huedo, John Schneider, Peter Yates and Buzz Gravelle
The combined guitar ensembles of UCLA and Cal Poly Pomona
Singers Jacalyn Kreitzer, Jonathan Mack, John Duykers, Hector Vasquez, Maria Jette, Kathy Barata and others
Eister's music has been performed in Austria, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Canada, Iran and in various cities in the United States.
KENNEDY CENTER and WIGMORE HALL (London) In 2005, guitarist Lily Afshar performed his "Fantasia On a Traditional Persian Song" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and at Wigmore Hall in London. The piece is included on her Archer Records CD, "Hemispheres."
CARNEGIE HALL- In April of '01, the Kreitzer/Davies/Nagano Trio performed his monodrama, "Like Writing on Water," at the Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.
SONY CLASSICAL- His "Quintet for Glass and Strings" was recorded by Dennis James and the Emerson String Quartet for "Cristal: Glass Music Through the Ages," an album of music for instruments made of glass, produced by Linda Ronstadt and John Boylan for SONY Classical.
Eister studied with Edward Applebaum, Peter Fricker, Emma Lou Diemer and considers Daniel Lentz to be his mentor. During their association in Santa Barbara in the 1970's, he performed with Lentz's groups on the West Coast and on four European tours.
Eister has a Ph.D. in music composition from UCSB and lives in Arroyo Grande, California.

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