Telephone: (843) 953-8227
Office: 322, Simons Center
E-mail: mavesd@cofc.edu
Courses:
- Music Appreciation
- Music Theory I
- Music Theory II
- History of Jazz
- Seminar: Music Composition
- Seminar: Music Composition II
- Sr. Ind. Study: Composition
Web site: www.cofc.edu/~mavesweb
David Maves
Professor, Music Theory/Composition
Composer in Residence
David W. Maves has composed over 100 works of which about half are published. A list of his compositions includes symphonies, concertos, works for symphonic band, works for chorus, an opera, Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), text in Spanish by Federico Garcia Lorca), much chamber music, some Gebrauchsmusik, and works for organ, harpsichord, and early music instruments (recorders and viols).
He was born in 1937 in Salem, Oregon and studied with Homer Keller at the University of Oregon (B.M. 196l), Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (D.M.A. 1971). In 1964 he was appointed Ford Foundation Composer-in-Residence in Raleigh, NC, and since has received various other awards including several ASCAP awards, and two Sigma Alpha Iota Inter American Awards.