South African composer-pianist James Wilding earned a Bachelor of Music
and Master of Music from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Music
from Youngstown State University, and a Ph.D. from Kent State University.
He studied piano with Neil Solomon, a pupil of Lili Kraus. Other teachers
and mentors were: Lamar Crowson, George Crumb, Brandt Fredriksen,
Wilfrid Hiller, Thomas Janson, Peter Klatzow, Vladimir Viardo, and Stewart
Young.
His compositions include: The Continents and Barbaric Dance for
orchestra, Greek Goddesses for piano and symphonic wind ensemble,
Mayan Rites for two pianos and percussion, a chamber cantata Lot’s Wife,
two song-cycles, a wind quintet, two string quartets, a string trio, a violin
sonata, various other chamber works, and a substantial body of solo piano
pieces.
James Wilding’s work has been performed in South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada,
and the USA, and published by The Foundation for the Creative Arts and
the University of South Africa. His compositions have been broadcast on
Fine Music Radio (Cape Town), SAFM (Johannesburg), and KKGO (Los
Angeles).
His Etude for solo piano was prescribed for the 1996 UNISA-Transnet
International Piano Competition and Poem was prescribed for the 1998
Hennie Joubert National Competition in South Africa. He won the Oude
Meester Prize and the Potchefstroom University Chancellor’s Trust Prize for
South African composers. He received a graduate scholarship from the
Southern African Music Rights Organisation and the David B. Smith
Fellowship from Kent State University. He is listed in Who’s Who in America.
James Wilding is an active pianist, performing regularly as a soloist and
chamber musician, and collaborating frequently with his wife, Caroline
Oltmanns. He is on the Theory and Composition faculty at the University of
Akron, Ohio.
and Master of Music from the University of Cape Town, a Master of Music
from Youngstown State University, and a Ph.D. from Kent State University.
He studied piano with Neil Solomon, a pupil of Lili Kraus. Other teachers
and mentors were: Lamar Crowson, George Crumb, Brandt Fredriksen,
Wilfrid Hiller, Thomas Janson, Peter Klatzow, Vladimir Viardo, and Stewart
Young.
His compositions include: The Continents and Barbaric Dance for
orchestra, Greek Goddesses for piano and symphonic wind ensemble,
Mayan Rites for two pianos and percussion, a chamber cantata Lot’s Wife,
two song-cycles, a wind quintet, two string quartets, a string trio, a violin
sonata, various other chamber works, and a substantial body of solo piano
pieces.
James Wilding’s work has been performed in South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada,
and the USA, and published by The Foundation for the Creative Arts and
the University of South Africa. His compositions have been broadcast on
Fine Music Radio (Cape Town), SAFM (Johannesburg), and KKGO (Los
Angeles).
His Etude for solo piano was prescribed for the 1996 UNISA-Transnet
International Piano Competition and Poem was prescribed for the 1998
Hennie Joubert National Competition in South Africa. He won the Oude
Meester Prize and the Potchefstroom University Chancellor’s Trust Prize for
South African composers. He received a graduate scholarship from the
Southern African Music Rights Organisation and the David B. Smith
Fellowship from Kent State University. He is listed in Who’s Who in America.
James Wilding is an active pianist, performing regularly as a soloist and
chamber musician, and collaborating frequently with his wife, Caroline
Oltmanns. He is on the Theory and Composition faculty at the University of
Akron, Ohio.
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