Stuart Dempster (born July 7, 1936 in Berkeley, California) is a trombonist, didjeridu player, improvisor, composer, author of The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms (1979), and on the faculty of the University of Washington. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 1981.

He has commissioned and performed works by Luciano Berio, Donald Erb, Robert Erickson, Andrew Imbrie, Ernst Krenek, and Robert Suderburg. He has collaborated with former classmate Pauline Oliveros and Panaiotis including co-founding the Deep Listening Band. He commissioned Theater Piece for Trombone Player (1966) from Oliveros and choreographer Elizabeth Harris.

Dempster practices yoga and breath control including circular breathing (Von Gunden 1983, p.38).

Discography

• In The Great Abbey of Clement VI (1987 New Albion, NA013)
• Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel, S. Dempster and colleagues (1995 New Albion, NA076)
• On the Boards (November 26, 2001 CD NOM11)

Source

• Von Gunden, Heidi (1983). The Music of Pauline Oliveros. ISBN 0-8108-1600-8.

External links

• Stuart Dempster-s Faculty Page
• New Albion Artist: Stuart Dempster
• Frankfurt Ballet Composers: Stuart Dempster scroll to bottom
• Anomalous Records:

Listening

• Epitonic: Stuart Dempster featuring -Morning Light- and -Didjerilayover- from Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel.
• Art of the States: Stuart Dempster General Speech (1969) by Robert Erickson

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