Douglas Boyce
Composition and Theory
dboyce@gwu.edu
ext. 46247
Phillips Hall B-139
Bachelor of Arts (Physics and Music), Williams College, 1992;
Master of Music, University of Oregon, 1996;
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
As Assistant Professor of Music, Prof.
Boyce teaches theory, musicianship, and composition courses and also oversees all
aspects of instructional technology in the Department of Music. A founding member
of counter)induction, composer Douglas Boyce writes chamber music that bridges the
medieval and the modern, the visceral and the cerebral. Praising his Quintet "l'homme armé", Allan Kozinn in The New York Times, wrote "he couches [the medieval melody] in such thoroughly modern scoring that the ear is lured to other things, including the juxtaposition of eerie string writing with playful material for the clarinet and piano, or the lively interplay among all five instruments."
Mr. Boyce was born in New York City in 1970. After performing with various punk rock bands in the greater New York metropolitan area, he attended Williams College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Music, with honors, in 1992. He holds an MM from the University of Oregon, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 1999, he was awarded the Weiss Prize in Composition for Trois Complaintes. He has attended the Master-Class in Composition at the Aspen Festival, the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague, and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. During the summers of 2000 and 2002, he was a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has studied with George Crumb, James Primosch, Kathryn Alexander, Robert Kyr, Judith Weir, Ladislav Kubik and Robert Suderburg.
His works have been performed in Philadelphia, New York, Aspen, Frankfurt and Prague. His music for The Muslin Plays, a film and performance project developed with JMandle Performance was featured at the 1996 SOHO Arts Festival. In 1999, he and his works were featured on WXPN Philadelphia's Dystopia, a new music radio journal. His work Palimpsest: A Composition of Maps, commissioned by Concert Artists' Guild for violinist Asmira Woodward-Page, was recently premiered at Carnegie Hall's Well Hall in New York.
