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 Pablo
E. Furman
Office: MUS 244 • Phone: 408-924-4646
Email:
pefurman@email.sjsu.edu
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., UCLA, Conservatorio Julian Aguirre, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Composition
-- Area Coordinator
Electro-Acoustics
Music Systems (Theory & Musicianship)
Courses
Compositions and Professional Activities
Recordings
Awards
Pablo E. Furman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he
began university studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires
and the Conservatorio Julian Aguirre. He emigrated to the United
States in 1976 and continued his education at the University
of California at Los Angeles where he received, in 1987, a Ph.D.
in composition. Upon graduation he took a position at the University
of California, Berkeley where he taught courses in harmony and
Latin American music. In 1989 he took a position at San Jose
State University, California. He currently teaches composition,
music theory, electro-acoustic music, music of Latin America,
and coordinates the music composition program.
Furman's
recent awards include a California Arts Council award in music
composition (2000), a 1999 Koussevitzky Commission award, and a 1996 Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation composition award in the competition from Latin America and the Caribbean.
He is the recipient of two research fellowships from the California
State University for 1993 and 1995, and a SJSU President's Special
Recognition Award in 1996. He has been a guest composer at Stanford
University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics,
and guest composer in residence at the Djerassi Artist Foundation
in Woodside, California. His
compositions have been perfored by the Earplay ensemble, the
New Music Works ensemble, and played at the conference of the
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U. S. (SEAMUS), the
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, the International
Computer Music Conference, the Mid-American New Music Festival
at Bowling Green, Ohio, the Foro Internacional de Música
Nueva (Mexico City), the Festival International de Música
Contemporanea (Guanajuato, Mexico), the 1993 Convention of the
National Flute Association, and the Santa Cruz New Music Works
series. Recordings include Matices Coincidentes, for
quartet and electronics, SEAMUS CD (1999), Concerto for Ensemble
and Electronics, Centaur-CDCM (2000). His work Synergy,
for amplified flute and electronics is recorded on a CD produced
by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, and Centaur
Records CDCM vol. 26. Music for Alto Saxophone and Electronics
is recorded in "The Electric Saxophone" CD by saxophonist
John Sampen, Capstone Records CPS-8636.
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