Bob Clendenen Short Bio
Bob Clendenen's Bio
Public Bio: Bob Clendenen - Bob is an ASCAP award winning composer with music degrees from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts. He was born 1961 in Atlanta, GA. and is a singer, songwriter, multi.-instrumentalist who as a performer has slowly been emerging out of the world of experimental music into more roots based song forms. In addition to his song writing, however, Bob still composes experimental and traditional chamber music compositions for a variety of artists. A co-founder of the L.A. Jam Band FOOD (1996-2001), Bob has worked with numerous musicians from grammy award winning jazz bassist Charlie Haden to psychedelic pop singer/songwriter Stew. Bob has also opened for or shared a festival spot with artists as diverse as Frank Black (of the Pixies) to experimental guitar legend Fred Firth.
Academic Bio:
Bob Clendenen was born in 1961 in Atlanta, GA. and received his B.M. Cum Laude from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts. His major composition instructors included Brian Fernneyhough, John Harbison, Jonathan D. Kramer, Paul Lansky, Stephen L. Mosko, Allen Sapp, and Morton Subotnick. As a composer he has won numerous grants and awards, among them a Young Composers Award from A.S.C.A.P. Bob was a featured composer in the Visiting Composers Series 1989/90 at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and has given numerous lectures on his music at both the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts. As a performer Bob was a founding member of the L.A. band FOOD which existed from Sept. of 1996 to Sept. of 2001 as a recording and performing group. Bob has also performed as a trumpet soloist on Monday Evening Concerts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Bob's current performance schedule is generally focused on singer-songwriter presentations and concerts. His commissions include the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, California E.A.R. Unit, Percussion Group Cincinnati, CalArts New Millennium Players, Phil VanOuse (who is the principle tubist for the Pittsburgh Opera & Ballet), Lilia Boyadjieva (European pianist), and friends and teachers throughout the United States. Bob has had many performances of his compositions in the U.S.A., and radio broadcasts of his music in a number of countries, states and cities. As a producer, he has managed more than 4000 concerts in California and one at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Bob resides in the mountains of southern California, and is on the faculty and staff at the California Institute of the Arts.
Back to home