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David Gompper has lived and worked professionally as a pianist, a conductor, and a composer in New York, San Diego, London, Nigeria, Michigan, Texas and Iowa. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Jeremy Dale Roberts, Humphrey Searle and Phyllis Sellick. After teaching in Nigeria, he received his doctorate at the University of Michigan, taught at the University of Texas, Arlington, and since 1991 has been Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa. In 2002 - 2003 Gompper was in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching, performing and conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. Gompper's compositions are heard throughout the United States and Europe. In 1999 his Transitus (for wind ensemble) premiered at Carnegie Hall, and a number of his works have premiered in London's Wigmore Hall, including: Hommage a W. A. (William Albright) for piano; and Shades of Love, a song cycle on the poetry of Constantin Cavafy. Subsequent returns to Moscow have included premieres and performances of Crossed, Music in the Glen, Six Love Poems, Star of the County Down, Butterfly Dance and Spirals. His Outside Cage for piano and electronics was premiered at the Institute of Music and Acoustics (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany last June. His latest work for violin and piano, Echoes - serving as the prototype for his Violin Concerto - was taken on a 12-concert tour throughout the US, Canada and Europe this past fall with Wolfgang David, a violinist from Vienna with whom Gompper actively collaborates as a pianist and composer. They have recorded two CDs on the Albany label, with a third disc forthcoming. Gompper's An Elm We Lost and Kuta Muela appear on the CD Monsterology (Albany Records TROY900), as well as Musica segreta (Albany Records, TROY956). His Spirals for two violins and string orchestra was premiered in Albania in April 2008; the orchestral version was recorded in Bratislava and the trio version in Moscow last May 2008. Both versions will be released on two separate Albany discs this spring. He recently completed several new compositions: a new violin and piano work called Ikon for Wolfgang David (fall 2008); a work for the Manhattan Sinfonietta (February 17 & 20, 2009) entitled L'Icone St. Nicolas; and Ikon II for the the Coe College Symphony (European tour, 2009). His Violin Concerto and other orchestral works will be recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (London) in the fall of 2009 for a release on Naxos in early 2011.c
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