Blake R. Henson
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Blake R. Henson is a composer and musician.
[edit] Education
Born in Dallas, Texas, Henson currently resides in Princeton, New Jersey where he is completing a master’s degree in music composition at the Westminster Choir College of Rider University from which he holds a bachelor’s degree in music theory and composition.
[edit] Career
Sought after for his choral, vocal, and orchestral work, Henson has received numerous commissions from professional ensembles, colleges and high schools, churches, and community choruses and orchestras including Chanticleer, Westminster Kantorei, Masterworks Chorus and Orchestra, and the New Jersey Chamber Singers. He has studied composition and orchestration with Michel Cox, Martin Sweidel, John Parker, Joel Phillips, Jay A. Kawarsky, and Ron Hemmel and has collaborated with such noted composers as Mark Adamo and Tarik O’Regan. As a performer, Henson has appeared with the Westminster Choir, Westminster Kantorei, Fuma Sacra, the New York Philharmonic (Davis, Dutoit, Maazel, Gilbert, Hickocks), the Cleveland Orchestra (Boulez), the New Jersey Symphony (Labadie, Järvi), Dresden Philharmonic (Frühbeck) and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Litton) and has collaborated with such noted conductors as Joseph Flummerfelt, Andrew Megill, James Jordan and Emmanuell Villaume. Mr. Henson is published by Shawnee, Abingdon, Hindshaw, GIA, and Amber Waves.
Henson has been praised for his diverse and imaginative musical works which the New Jersey Star-Ledger called “powerful and thoughtful at the same time.”
