Performances + Events
Rodney Lister
Education and Training
BM, New England Conservatory; MFA, Brandeis University. Composition studies with Malcolm Peyton, Donald Martino, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, Virgil Thomson; piano with Robert Helps, David Hagan, Patricia Zander.
Awards and Recognition
Composer Rodney Lister has received commissions, grants, fellowships, and awards from the Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood), the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Fires of London, the Poets’ Theatre, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and ASCAP.
As a pianist, he has been involved in world, U.S., or Boston premieres of works by Virgil Thomson, Peter Maxwell Davies, Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy, Lee Hyla, and Paul Bowles.
Cofounder and codirector of Music Here & Now, a concert series of new music by Boston composers at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Lister was also a founding member of the Music Production Company and music coordinator of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble.
Also faculty of NEC Preparatory and Adult Education and music tutor at Harvard University’s Pforzheimer (formerly North) House.
Curriculum Vitae
BM, New England Conservatory; MFA, Brandeis University. Composition studies with Malcolm Peyton, Donald Martino, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harold Shapero, Arthur Berger, Virgil Thomson; piano with Robert Helps, David Hagan, Patricia Zander.
- Composer Rodney Lister has received commissions, grants, fellowships, and awards from the Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood), the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Fires of London, the Poets’ Theatre, the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and ASCAP.
