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Briggs Works
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Discography
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Roger Briggs,
a native of Florence, Alabama, attended the University of Memphis where
he received top honors in both piano performance and composition.
At the Eastman School of Music
he studied conducting with Gustav Meir and composition with Pulitzer
Prize winning composer Joseph Schwantner. There he received both the
prestigious Bernard Sernofsky Award and the Lois Lane Orchestral
Award for excellence in composition. Since those formative years, Mr.
Briggs' compositions have been performed throughout the world.
Premiere performances include New Yorks Carnegie Recital Hall,
Chicago's Cultural Arts Center, London's St. John's Smith Square,
Warsaw's Fredric Chopin Academy, and Moscow's Glinka Hall.
Awards include international and national composition prizes, grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Arts Council,
the Indiana Arts Council, Meet the Composer, the MacDowell Colony,
and ASCAP.
Mr. Briggs conducting experience include many chamber ensembles
in Memphis and at the Eastman School of Music and
eleven years at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame where he conducted
the Michiana New Music Ensemble for 6 years in South Bend, Indiana and
guest conducted the South Bend Symphony Orchestra.
Since his appointment at Western Washington University in 1989 as
coordinator of the Composition Program, Mr. Briggs has established the
Contemporary Chamber Players, was appointed conductor of the Western Symphony
Orchestra in the fall of 1993 and is the
Conductor of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra.
He has also served as Guest Conductor of the London Symphony and
the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
