Toxis for clarinet, harp, and piano (2011)

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John Cooper - viola
Patrick Fowler - bass
Bryce Leafman - vibes
Arthur Lin - other percussion
Colin McDearman - piano
Rob Rankin - conducting

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Elbert Liu (b. 1988) is a native of southern California and earned a DMA degree in music composition from the University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC), where he studied with Chen Yi, Zhou Long, and Paul Rudy. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Southern California (USC), where he previously studied under Frank Ticheli, Stephen Hartke, and Erica Muhl. 
He has attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Atlantic Music Festival. In 2009, he won the 2nd Annual Charles E. Gamper Contemporary Student Compostion Competition Award, and in 2013, he was selected as one of 15 composers to partake in a 15-Minutes-of-Fame event hosted by the contemporary music organization Vox Novus, featuring the Crane Harp Ensemble. Most recently, Elbert won the 2014 Gerard Kemner Wind Ensemble Composition Competition Prize, and his winning work, "A Particle-ar Theory", was performed by the UMKC Wind Symphony in 2015.
Apart from his studies in composition, Elbert served as a conducting/library assistant intern for the California Philharmonic, headed by Victor Vener, during the summer seasons of 2012 and 2013. He currently serves as an independent contractor under the USC Thornton School of Music, as well as a librarian for the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra (LAYO). Elbert has also served as a tutor in piano, music composition and music theory.

Toxis for clarinet, harp, and piano (2011)

Elbert Liu

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