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Craig Shepard
(*1975 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is a composer, trombonist and sound
artist. He is a member of the Wandelweiser
Composers Ensemble. His work has been called "touchingly beautiful"
(Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Berliner Zeitung)
and "truly invulnerable" (Martin Preisser,
St-Galler Tagblatt). It
has been featured at Moments Musicaux Aarau, the Akademie
der Künste Berlin, the Kunstraum
Düsseldorf, Experimental Intermedia New York,
Real Art Ways in Hartford, the Deep Listening Center in
Kingston, New York, and throughout Europe and the United States.
His most successful work is On Foot, a 31-day, 350-mile trek from
Geneva to St. Margrethen, Switzerland on which he
composed, wrote down and performed a new piece every day.
As a trombonist, he has performed with Christian Wolff, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Jürg Frey, Collegium Novum Zürich and many
others. He has played on recordings with the Vokal
Ensemble München and with Burkhard
Schlothauer.
At the Zürcher Hochschule
der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts), Mr.
Shepard served as a lecturer and listening researcher. A paper detailing the
results of his work has been published in the Schweizerische
Musikzeitung.
From 2001 to 2005, he studied sacbut with Ulrich Eichenberger. In 1998, he graduated with a Bachelor of
Music, magna cum laude, from Northwestern University, where he studied
trombone with Frank Crisafulli and composition with
Michael Pisaro and Alan Stout.
Craig Shepard lives in Brooklyn, New York City.
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