Dr. Jerry Tabor is a well-known composer of acoustic and
electroacoustic music. He has been teaching at Salisbury
University for eleven years and continuously conducts
research in composition-related areas of music. Tabor’s
compositions and music research have been presented
throughout the United States at major conferences, and
he has also been a guest composer and lecturer at many
institutions.
Much of his music is influenced by his background as a
jazz performer and is written for various instrumental
combinations (including orchestra and jazz ensembles)
and the electroacoustic medium. A number of Tabor’s
compositions are published by Silent Editions and
several are recorded on the Neuma Records label,
including engaging Causey (ElectroAcoustic Music
VI), lemon;birch (ElectroAcoustic Music VII), and
veneer/semblance, extremities, verities
(Contemporary Chamber Music Series IV). As a featured
composer at several music festivals and invited
composer, he has lectured on his music at the John
Donald Robb International Composers Symposium (NM), the
Western Illinois University New Music Festival, The
Electroacoustic Music: The Continuing Tradition
conference (University of Maryland), the Holy Cross
College New Music Festival (MA), George Mason
University, SUNY Buffalo, Catholic University, Central
Michigan University, and Hartwick College (New York),
among others.
Tabor’s research is focused in the areas of composition
theory and compositional teaching methods, as well as
jazz studies. His Instructors Manual for the popular
text, Jazz the First 100 Years, is published by
Thomson publishing company, and his important book on a
pioneering theorist and musicologist, entitled, Otto
Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons, is published
by Greenwood Press. As an acknowledged expert on
composition theory, Tabor is in the process of producing
a textbook on compositional procedure that acknowledges
various creativity theories and generative approaches
involving true originality not dependent upon
compositional rhetoric.
As associate professor of music at Salisbury University,
Tabor is coordinator of the theory, composition, jazz,
and technology programs, as well as director of the jazz
ensembles. He teaches courses in music theory;
composition; jazz theory, history, and performance;
creativity theories; and computer music.
Jerry Tabor holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of
Music degrees in composition from the University of
Maryland at College Park and a Bachelor of Music degree
in Theory and Composition from the University of New
Mexico.
Teacher Education Technology Center (TE) 304
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Email:
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