Bob Clendenen Short Bio
Bob Clendenen's Bio
Public Bio: Bob Clendenen - Bob is an ASCAP award winning composer with music degrees from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts. He was born 1961 in Atlanta, GA. and is a singer, songwriter, multi.-instrumentalist who has slowly been emerging out of the world of experimental music into more roots based song forms. A co-founder of the L.A. Avant Freak Jam Band FOOD (1996-2001), Bob has worked with a wide variety of artists from grammy award winning jazz bassist Charlie Haden to psychedelic pop singer/songwriter Stew. Bob has also opened for artists as diverse as Frank Black (of the Pixies) to The Ominous Seapods. Bob is currently working on a CD scheduled for release summer of 2006, and is concentrating on his singer/songwriter performances.
Academic Bio:
Bob Clendenen was born in 1961 in Atlanta, GA. and received his B.M. Cum Laude from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and an MFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts. His major composition instructors included Brian Fernneyhough, John Harbison, Jonathan D. Kramer, Paul Lansky, Stephen L. Mosko, Allen Sapp, and Morton Subotnick. As a composer he has won numerous grants and awards, among them a Young Composers Award from A.S.C.A.P. He was a featured composer in the Visiting Composers Series 1989/90 at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and has given numerous lectures on his music at both the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the California Institute of the Arts. As a performer he was a founding member of the L.A. band FOOD which existed from Sept. of 1996 to Sept. of 2001 as a recording and performing entity. Bob is currently recording a CD and promoting his solo act. Bob has also performed as a soloist on Monday Evening Concerts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His commissions include the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, California E.A.R. Unit, Percussion Group Cincinnati, CalArts New Millennium Players, friends throughout the United States, and Lilia Boyadjieva (European pianist). Bob has had many performances of his compositions in the U.S.A., and FM radio broadcasts of his music in Atlanta, Auburn, Boston, Cincinnati, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Mammoth, Madison, and Philadelphia. As a producer, he has managed more than 2000 concerts in California and one at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Bob currently resides in the mountains of southern California, and is on the faculty and staff at the California Institute of the Arts.
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