NICK STRIMPLE
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Partial List

2007: Christmas. Kimberly Locke's 2007 holiday album includes her #1 Billboard AC hits, Up On The Housetop, Jingle Bells and the single Frosty the Snowman. Also included: Ave Maria, Last Christmas, Merry Christmas Darling and Away In A Manger. Curb Records (Consultant)

 

2006: The Nativity Story. Music by Mychael Danna. New Line Records NLR39074 New Line Cinema (Choral Conductor)

 

2006: Max Helfman: Die Naye Hagode, Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale, and Choral Society of Southern California. Naxos American Classics 8.559440 [Milken Recorded Archive of American Jewish Music] (Conductor)

 

2005:  Judith Lang Zaimont: Meditations for the New Year, Choral Society of Southern California, other artists. Naxos American Classics 8.559444 [Milken Recorded Archive of American Jewish Music] (Conductor)

 

2003: Michael English Christmas Album, Curb Records D2-78714 (Arranger/Conductor)

 

2001: Rod Stewart: The Very Best Of, Warner Bros. Records RZ 78328 (Director)

 

1999: Judith Lang Zaimont: Radiance (selected choral music by Zaimont). Choral Society of Southern California. 4-Tay Records CD#4015 (Conductor)

 

1996: Viktor Ullmann: The Emporer of Atlantis (CD#Z6681); Hans Krasa: Brundibar and Hebrew and Yiddish folk songs by Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein and Sigmund Schul (CD#Z6680). Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Essex Children’s Choir and soloists, conducted by Robert DeCormier. Arabesque Recordings [Music from Terezin Series] (Consultant)

 

1996: Amy Beach: Service in A Major and Nick Strimple: Anthems, Choral Society of Southern California, Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church Chancel Choir. Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. CD#921 (Conductor)

 

1993: Lou Rawls: Christmas Is the Time, Capitol Records - Blue Note (Arranger/Consultant)

 

1993: Hail, Sacred Feast, (composer) included on With Heart and Voices: Anthems Across America, Madrigalia. Roger Wilhelm, conductor

 

1992: George Burns and Bobby Vinton: I Know What It Is to Be Young, Curb Records (Orchestrator)

 

1991: The Mike Curb Congregation: Tie a Yellow Ribbon, Curb Records (Choral Arranger)

 

1991: Rod Stewart: The Rhythm of My Heart, [Vagabond Heart CD] Warner Brothers Records. (Platinum)(Director)

 

1989: The Iron Triangle Soundtrack Album, Scotti Brothers Records (Composer/Conductor)

 

1987: Air Supply: The Christmas Album, Arista Records (Arranger/Conductor)

 

 

PREMIERE HIGHLIGHTS

Sinfonia Breve, premiered on 13 November 2010 at Newman Hall on the University of Southern California campus under the direction of Coreen Duffy.

 

Pirke Avot, commissioned by the family of Karl Josephy. Premiered on 22 November 2009 at Congregation Ner Tamid in Palos Verdes Estates. Performed by the Los Angeles Zimriyah Chorale, Lauren Buckley (soprano) and Cantor Samuel Radwine.

 

Music for the Blue Rose, commissioned by Wilbur Richardson. Premiered at the University of Southern California on 1 November 2009.

 

Harpsichord Concerto

Premiered February 2007 in Amarillo, Texas by members of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra
David Lowe, harpsichord.
 

RECENT FILM

100 Voices: A Journey Home

Strimple is featured in this documentary.

 

RECENT COMMISSIONS

New Work for Brass Quartet (Untitled)

commissioned by the New Music Encounter Festival. Brno Czech Republic

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Choral Music in Theresienstadt 1941 - 1944

(Orel Foundation On-line Journal, May 2010)

 

Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century (Amadeus Press, 2008)

 

RECENT MUSIC PUBLICATIONS

Pirke Avot, for Cantor, mixed chorus and Baroque ensemble, published by NLS Music, 2010.

Nativities
, for soloists, mixed chorus, organ and orchestra, published by NLS Music, 2010.


PHOTOS FROM THE ARCHIVE

Nick Strimple and Günter Einhaus in Nuremberg, 2000.

 

Strimple rehearsing in Norwich Cathedral, 1987.

 
 

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