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Herbert Bielawa earned his degrees in piano and composition at the University of Illinois and the University of Southern California. He has been a member of the faculties of Bethany College and San Francisco State University where he founded the Pro Music Nova and created the electronic music studio and courses for the Computer Music Major. He has written music for instrumental ensembles, piano, harpsichord, pipe organ, choir, electronics, chamber opera, band and orchestra. His much-performed SPECTRUM for Band and Tape was composed during his CMP (Contemporary Music Project) residency in Houston from 1964 to 1966. Since 1991 he has been a free-lance composer and pianist. His interest in American music and the music of women in particular led to a series of concerts in 1986 and 1987 music by Amy Beach and himself. His most recent music commissions were from Meet the Composer, the Minneapolis Convention Center, the San Francisco School of the Arts, the American Guild of Organists and Earplay. Among the soloists who have performed his works are hornist Barry Tuckwell, sopranos Anna Carol Dudley, Marian Marsh and Judy Hubbell, pianists Margaret Mills and Joel Sachs, and organists Sandra Soderlund, Alex Post, Delbert Disselhorst and Pamela Decker. His Fluxbands for Eleven Instruments will be performed by North/South Consonance, Inc. in New York in January 1997.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Concerto for organ, strings, and timpani	Orchestra		00:16:20
Valves for four	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice		00:10:00
Chorale and toccata for concert band	Band		00:13:00
Quodlibet SF425691	Keyboard		00:00:00
Spectrum	Band		00:06:00
Abstractions	Orchestra		00:00:00
Three pieces : sonatina	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice		00:00:00
Concert fanfare	Band		00:00:00
Binaries	Solo instrument, non-keyboard		00:00:00
Divergents	Orchestra		00:25:00
Phoenix	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice		00:00:00
Mixed Motion	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice		00:00:00
Play For Two	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2004	00:08:00
Cloning Around	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2004	00:06:30
Mixed Motion	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:06:00
Phoenix	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:07:00
Emergency Measures	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	00:08:00
Fluxbands	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1994	00:00:00
Expressions	Keyboard	1992	00:14:30
Expressions : eight compact pieces	Keyboard	1992	00:00:00
Through thick and thin	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:00:00
Piece of pi	Keyboard	1990	00:00:00
Ants	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1985	00:00:00
Duo for violin and harpsichord	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1984	00:00:00
Fluxbands	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1981	00:10:00
Signals	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1981	00:13:00
Monophonies	Keyboard	1979	00:20:50
Blackbirds : prelude and fugue on a theme by Olivier Me	Keyboard	1979	00:09:15
Noctrurne for piano, four hands	Keyboard	1978	00:13:00
Movements and moments	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1978	00:15:00
Quartet for guitars	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1977	00:05:55
Changes for strings	Orchestra	1976	00:00:00
Pentecost cantata	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1976	00:00:00
Frags	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1976	00:07:00
Warp	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1976	00:07:00
Gambol	Keyboard	1974	00:05:00
Eight antiphons for voice, a cappella	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1974	00:25:00
Dickinson album, A	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1973	00:26:24
Ciphers	Keyboard	1971	00:00:00
For a special occasion	Keyboard	1971	00:08:00
Sonatina	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1964	00:12:00
Bird in the bush, A : chamber opera in one act	Opera/Theater	1962	00:30:00
Brass 'n' jacks	Keyboard	1961	00:10:00

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