Isthmus Vocal Ensemble, Inc.

For our August 2003 performance, the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble commissioned a new work by Andrew Rindfleisch. "To His Music" is a tribute to UW-Madison choral professor Robert Fountain, and received its world premiere in Madison. In 2004, the Isthmus Vocal Ensemble was commissioned to record the complete choral works of Mr. Rindfleisch, for national commercial release in 2006 (available from Clarion Records).

Andrew Rindflesich Andrew Rindfleisch (b. 1963) is an internationally active composer, conductor, and pianist whose work continues to gain consistent critical and popular acclaim. A leading composer of his generation, he has produced dozens of works for the concert hall, including solo, chamber, vocal, choral, and orchestral music. His committed interest in other forms of music-making have also led him to the composition and performance of jazz and related forms of improvisation.

As a composer, Mr. Rindfleisch has been awarded many prestigious honors in recognition of his work. He is the 1997-98 recipient of the coveted Rome Prize and in 1996 received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. He has also been the recipient of numerous other prizes, including those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koussevitzky Foundation and the Library of Congress, the Fromm Foundation, ASCAP, the Chautauqua Chamber Singers, the League of Composers-ISCM, and the National Association of Composers. He has participated in dozens of renowned music festivals and has received residency fellowships from the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Czech-American Music Institute in Prague, the June in Buffalo Contemporary Music Festival, the MacDowell Colony, and the Pierre Boulez Workshop at Carnegie Hall, among others. Mr. Rindfleisch holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Bachelor of Music), the New England Conservatory of Music (Master of Music), and Harvard University (PhD), and is currently a Professor of Music Composition at Cleveland State University.