PIERRE JALBERT
Associate Professor of Composition and Theory

B.M. (1989) Oberlin College Ph.D. (1993) University of Pennsylvania 1603 Alice Pratt Brown Hall 713-348-3461 jalbert@rice.edu

PIERRE JALBERT served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 2002 - 2005 and is currently Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston. He has received numerous awards for his compositions, including the 2007 Stoeger Award from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for his contributions to the chamber music repertory. Previous awards include the Rome Prize, the BBC Masterprize, a Guggenheim fellowship, BMI and ASCAP Awards, a Society of Composer's Award, and the Bearns Prize in Composition.

His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and abroad, including four Carnegie Hall performances of his orchestral works, one of the most recent being the Houston Symphony’s premiere of his orchestral work, big sky, in January, 2006. The London Symphony Orchestra performed his In Aeternam at the Barbican Centre in London as part of the BBC's Masterprize Competition in 2001, in which he received first prize. He has also been commissioned and performed by violinist Midori, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Ying Quartet, the Seattle Symphony, Albany Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, the Fischer Duo, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Zeitgeist, Network for New Music, and the Maia, Enso, and Chiara String Quartets, among others.

He has also served as Composer-in-Residence with the California Symphony and Music in the Loft in Chicago. His music is published by Theodore Presser Company, and he is a member of Musiqa, a Houston new music group. Current projects include a new work for the Maia String Quartet and an orchestral work commissioned through Meet the Composer’s Magnum Opus Project for three California orchestras who will each perform the work over the next three years (the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, and the Marin Symphony).

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