The Collective

The music of Clint Needham has been described as “wildly entertaining” and “stunning… brilliantly orchestrated” by the New York Times, as well as “well-crafted and arresting… riveting” by the Herald Times.  Needham recently served as the Knight Foundation Composer in Residence with the Akron Symphony where he collaborated with the City of Akron on a 30-miniute multimedia work.  He has also served as the Mellon Composer/Educator in Residence and the Music Alive: New Partnerships Composer in Residence with the Albany Symphony for two seasons.

Needham’s orchestral music has been commissioned and performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Omaha Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the New York Classical Players, among others. Various chamber groups including Alarm Will Sound, the American Brass Quintet, Chicago Pro Musica, Da Capo Chamber Players, Factory Seconds Brass Trio, Fifth House Ensemble, Hawthorne String Quartet, Hub New Music, and the President’s Own Marine Band Brass Quintet have given performances of his chamber music across the country as well as in Europe, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Australia.

Upcoming performances of his work include those given by the Omaha Symphony, Akron Symphony, Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony, Indiana University New Music Ensemble, and the Cleveland Winds, among others.

Needham’s music has been recognized with numerous awards including the International Barlow Prize, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Project 440 Commission, Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, the William Schuman Prize/BMI Student Composer Award, the Aspen Music Festival Jacob Druckman Prize, the Heckscher & Beeler Prizes from Ithaca College and the coveted Underwood New Music Commission from the American Composers Orchestra.

As an educator, Needham serves as Composer in Residence and Associate Professor of Music at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music.  He was previously an Associate Instructor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as well as Assistant Professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.  He holds degrees from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, where he was a four-year Jacobs School of Music doctoral fellow in composition.  He has also studied at the Aspen Music Festival as a Susan and Ford Schumann composition fellow and at the Wellesley Composers Conference.

Needham’s music is primarily published by the Theodore Presser Company with additional works published by Manhattan Beach Music and Triplo Press. Recordings of his works can be found on the Summit Records, New Focus Recordings, Beauport Classics, and Mark Masters labels as well as on recordings by the United States Air Force Band of the West, trumpeter Jack Sutte, and the American Composers Orchestra Digital Release Series.  For more information, please visit www.clintneedham.com.