Biography:

Hailed by Time Magazine as a “young American” just shortly after his twenty-first birthday, composer DAVID SAPERSTEIN was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island and in New Jersey. His first musical studies were at home with his father. His first formal studies in Musical Composition were with Jacob Druckman at the Juilliard Pre-College Division. He continued his musical studies at Princeton University, where he was a student of Milton Babbitt, and at Brandeis University, with Martin Boykan.

An award winner at an early age, David was one of the youngest winners of the BMI Awards to Student Composers, and is a twelve-time winner of the ASCAPlus Award. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Musical Composition and was an Associate Fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. A former member of the music faculty at Brooklyn College, Mr. Saperstein’s music has been heard in the United States as well as abroad, with performances taking place at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, Symphony Space and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the American Academy and Villa La Pariola (the American Ambassador’s Residence) in Rome, Villa Schifanoia in Florence, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute (at UCLA) and the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, the Cummings Center for the Arts at Connecticut College, and at many concert halls, houses of worship, and other performance spaces around the world.

The performers who have played Mr. Saperstein’s music include the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and New Jersey New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Peter Jarvis and Raymond DesRoches, the Purchase Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Dominic Donato, Composers Concordance, Speculum Musicae, the Group for Contemporary Music, the Cadillac Moon Ensemble, the Connecticut College Band, under the direction of Gary Buttery, the CalArts Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of David Johnson, and the Composers Guild of New Jersey. In 2008, Mr. Saperstein served as Composer in Residence for Composer in Residence Day XI at William Paterson University. Mr. Saperstein’s works are published by Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC, Songs Music, Inc., and Music for Percussion, a division of Colla Voce Music, Inc. Available at myxer.com as a ringtone, Mr. Saperstein’s Antiphonies for Percussion is recorded on Nonesuch Records, and his Three Marimba Solos, commissioned by Payton MacDonald and recorded on Equilibrium Records, is available for downloading at Amazon.com, iTunes, eMusic and Rhapsody. David’s Vibraphone Solo VI (for Milton) is included in the collection, Milton Babbitt: A Composers’ Memorial, recorded on the Perspectives of New Music/Open Space label.

Email: dsaperstein767@hotmail.com