Cameron Ward, composer
Selected Works
Let Us Sit and Tell Sad Stories About the Deaths of Kings - for SATB choir
For What Once Was - for string quartet
( ) - for alto saxophone and Max/MSP
MAR:Vom Traume zum Alptraume (Dreams into Nightmares) - for English horn and Max/MSP
Grinder - for organ
Wrath - for alto, tenor, and bass recorders and percussion
suffer - for alto sax, bells, bass guitar, and accordion
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Cameron Ward attended Winthrop University where he earned his B.M.E in
2004 while studying with Dr. Ron Parks and his M.M in Music Composition
in 2006 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro while
studying with Dr. Mark Engebretson. While at UNCG Cameron has served as
an assistant for the New Music Festival and as Technical Director of
the 2005 SCI National Conference. Previous teachers have included Dr.
Ron Parks (composition), Dr. Phil Thompson (saxophone), Dr. Clifford
Leaman (saxophone), Jill O’Neil (flute), and Tim Gordon (flute and jazz
studies). Cameron has been a participant in master classes with James
Paul Sain, Bill Karlins, Anne LeBaron, and Libby Larsen. Cameron is
also an active member of the Ban on a Kang All-stars Ensemble and is
currently collaborating with ceramic artist Michael Simmons to create a
pre-Columbian ceramic vessel audio installation for twin chamber vessel
flute, and voice as well as completing a commission from Andrew Hays
for Saxophone and Piano to be premiered at the NASA regional conference
in 2007. Other current projects include an experimental opera with fellow composer Seth Colaner using MAX/MSP.