Young Riddle: Brass Quintet
Winner, 1987 Goucher College/Annapolis Brass Quintet Competition
Young Riddle: Composer, Conductor
Young Riddle has distinguished himself as a conductor, educator, award-winning composer and now arts presenter as music director of the Nimbus Ensemble. After early training on the piano and trumpet he turned instinctively toward composition. Dr. Riddle went on to study at USC with composers Robert Linn and Morten Lauridsen, open form music with Earle Brown, and discovered a passion and talent for conducting, leading performances of Schubert’s Symphony no. 8 and Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation. Winning a scholarship to the Aspen Music School, he studied with Charles Jones and Elliott Carter.
While pursuing two master’s degrees at Northwestern University, Riddle continued his compositional and analytical studies and was accepted into Victor Yampolsky’s prestigious conducting seminar. In Chicago he conducted numerous ensembles and became the principal conductor of the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned his Excursions Through the North Shore. Riddle returned to Aspen as a conducting fellow and to USC where, while finishing his doctorate, he conducted their New Music for Orchestra series and taught in the composition and theory department. Read More
While pursuing two master’s degrees at Northwestern University, Riddle continued his compositional and analytical studies and was accepted into Victor Yampolsky’s prestigious conducting seminar. In Chicago he conducted numerous ensembles and became the principal conductor of the North Shore Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned his Excursions Through the North Shore. Riddle returned to Aspen as a conducting fellow and to USC where, while finishing his doctorate, he conducted their New Music for Orchestra series and taught in the composition and theory department. Read More
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Robert Suggs, trumpet
David Cran, trumpet
Arthur Brooks, horn
Wayne Wells, trombone
Robert Posten, bass trombone
To listen to this April 28, 1987
Goucher College performance of
Young Riddle's Brass Quintet
Winner, 1987 Goucher College/Annapolis Brass Quintet Competition
(Duration: 14:39)
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Robert Suggs, trumpet
David Cran, trumpet
Arthur Brooks, horn
Wayne Wells, trombone
Robert Posten, bass trombone
To listen to this April 28, 1987
Goucher College performance of
Young Riddle's Brass Quintet
Winner, 1987 Goucher College/Annapolis Brass Quintet Competition
(Duration: 14:39)
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(There may be a slight pause before sound begins.)
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The score and parts for Young Riddle's Brass Quintet, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
Direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection @ Oberlin
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The score and parts for Young Riddle's Brass Quintet, along with the entire ABQ music library, are available for research and performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Library.
Direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection @ Oberlin
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