Thomas Albert
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December 14, 1948 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Occupation | Composer |
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Thomas Albert (born December 14, 1948) is an American composer and educator.
Thomas Albert attended the public schools of Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Wilson, North Carolina. In 1970, he received the degree A.B. (Magna Cum Laude) from Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College), where he studied composition with William Duckworth. He received the M.Mus. (1972) and D.M.A. (1974) in composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying with Paul Martin Zonn and Ben Johnston.
Since 1974, he has been a member of the faculty of Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University. From 1989 - 2004 he was Associate Dean of the Conservatory; from 2004 - 2008 he was Chair of the Theatre Division. He is currently Professor of Music (composition and musical theatre) and holds the Harold Herman Chair in Musical Theatre. He has served as music director and conductor for more than 100 musicals and revues.
Albert’s music is stylistically postmodern, exhibiting influences of Ives, Copland, Crumb, minimalism and 20th-century American popular music.
Since the mid-1990s his works have been mostly composed for the combination of instruments known as the "Pierrot sextet" (after Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, with percussion instead of Schoenberg's singer), and have explored the application of the Fibonacci series (a numerical series in which each number is the sum of the previous two numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233…) to musical structures.
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