Jim Bob Floyd

James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas) is an American concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant-garde, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at Northern Illinois University and the University of Miami Frost School of Music.[1][2] Floyd is a Yamaha Artist.[3][4]

Selected discography

JB Floyd (piano), Thomas Buckner (baritone), Lisa Hansen (flute), Robert Ashley (composer)[5]
University of Illinois Chamber Choir & Madrigal Singers, Salvatore Martirano (conductor), Marilyn Nonken, J.B Floyd, Vicki Ray (piano), Jacqueline Bobak, Donald Smith (vocalist), Ronald Dewar (bass clarinet, tenor sax), Thomas Howell (flute), Howard Smith (contra-alto clarinet), Arthur Maddox (celeste), Dorothy Martirano (violin), Lee Duckles (cello), Thomas Frederickson (bass), Morgan Powell (trombone), Charles Brougham, Rick Kvistad (percussion)
  1. Paul Lansky Stroll, for chamber group and computer music on tape
  2. Cindy McTee "M" Music (1991-92), for alto saxophone and computer music on tape
  3. Charles Dodge In Celebration (1975), computer music on tape
  4. J.B. Floyd Tribute (1991), piano and computer music system
  5. Allen Strange Sleeping Beauty (1988-92), for amplified violin and computer-generated sounds performed by Debra Richtmeyer (alto saxophone)
JB Floyd (piano), Patricia Strange (violin), members of the University of North Texas College of Music Faculty Chamber Players conducted by Thomas Clark: Mary Karen Clardy (flute), Robert Schietroma (marimba), assisted by marimbist, Hsin-Yi Wu, Carter Enyeart (cello), Adam Wodnicki (piano)
  1. AccidentsTwo: Sound Projections, for Piano with Computer Music
  2. Canadian Coastlines: Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
  3. Quadrants: Event/Complex No. 4 (1972, rev. 1994) for Yamaha Disklavier piano
  4. Event/Complex No. 9 (1974), for percussion, combined with delay system and electronic music on tape
  5. Accidents (1967), for electronically prepared piano and Buchla-100 Electronic Music System
Performed by David Tudor, Montague/Mead Piano Plus (Stephen Montague & Philip Mead), Robert McCormick, J.B. Floyd, and the CBC Radio Ensemble

Notable former students

University of Miami Frost School of Music

External links

References

  1. Jack Edwin Guerry (born 1931), Silvio Scionti: Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher, University of North Texas Press (1991)
  2. An Intimate Portrait of Sidney Foster: Pianist ... Mentor, by Imelda Delgado, Hamilton Books (2013), pg. 138; OCLC 795177888
  3. Renaissance Man: JB Floyd, Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, Buena Park, California, August 8, 2003
  4. International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory (10th ed.), Ernest Kay (ed.), International Who's Who in Music (1984); OCLC 11828662
  5. François Couture, Transporting Transmittance: Music of J.B. Floyd, Allmusic, 2003
  6. "Abbott-Kirk, Jane" (in Vol 1 of 2), Who's Who in America, 59th ed., 2005, Marquis Who's Who (2004); OCLC 56976043 and 4780018167

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