Jonathan Clarke Schwabe (DMA University of South Carolina) is Professor Emeritus of Theory and Composition at the University of Northern Iowa. He has composed works for orchestra, wind symphony, chamber ensembles, voice, and chorus, with an extensive catalog of art songs and choral settings.
His work for youth orchestra, As I Remember, was performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1999 and subsequently received numerous performances throughout the United States and Europe. Two chamber operas — The Hard Years (libretto by Beth Webb Hart) and The Sojourner (based on the short story by Carson McCullers) — were presented at the Maud Powell Arts Celebration (Kevin McMahon conducting).
Other collaborative projects include the score for the musical comedy The Bake Shop Ghost with author Jacqueline Ogburn, and Peter Pan with choreographer Gloria Touhy for the Indiana Ballet Theatre. In 2010, Schwabe was commissioned to compose a work commemorating the visit of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to UNI. His composition A Toi Cometé Vagabonde was premiered at the World Saxophone Congress in 2012.
His principal teachers include Samuel Adler, John Anthony Lennon, and Dick Goodwin. His music is published by Musikverlag Bruno Uetz, Veritas Musica Publishing, Winzer Press, and Alafia Press.
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