Jenece Gerber earned the Ph.D in music composition from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in 2011. Her dissertation project, "je me délace: nai-u keshto" is comprised of "je me délace", for 16-voice a cappella choir, and "nai-u keshto", a wordless chamber opera. Gerber's music is inspired especially of implied polyrhythms, Indonesian idioms, vocal lines, poetic structures, multiple tonalities, and 19th-20th C. French music. She often employs extended vocal techniques in her numerous vocal works and some extended elements in her instrumental writing as well. Her music has been performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, La Catrina String Quartet, the Barton Workshop, the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Summit New Music Ensemble, the UB Contemporary Ensemble, the Season String Quartet, by solo artists such as Jonathan Golove, Tony Arnold, and Alison d'Amato and at several national conferences.
In October 2007 the New York Virtuoso Singers, under the direction of Harold Rosenbaum, premiered "je me delace" in New York City (mp3 is available on this site). In October 2005 her 5-movement piano piece OREGON SKETCHES was performed by Sarah Evans at the National Conference of the Society of Composers.
Gerber earned her Master's degree in music composition and a second Master's in vocal performance at the University of Akron. She received her Bachelor’s degree in an individualized program of study in Ethnomusicology with an emphasis in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University, where she studied with Burton Beerman, Marilyn Shrude, Donald Wilson and Wallace DePue and ethnomusicology with JaFran Jones, Michael Bakon and David Harnish. While an undergraduate student she received BGSU Pro-Musica and International Education grants and an Indonesian Cultural Affairs grant from the government of Indonesia to study gamelan and suling music in Bali. Additionally she received a commission to write and direct a complete musical score for a university production of Bertolt Brecht’s "The Good Woman of Setzuan." Ms. Gerber was elected to the 2008 Board of Directors of the International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM). She is an active member with both the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) and the American Music Center.
Ms. Gerber also is an accomplished singer and currently studies voice with Tony Arnold. She has performed with the Open Music Ensemble, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, the University of Akron Opera Workshop, and in special Buffalo engagements at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
March 25, 2012 "je me délace" will be performed again by the New York Virtuoso Singers under the direction of Harold Rosenbaum in New York City.
For sale or rental of performance materials, please contact Jenece Gerber at jenece1@yahoo.com