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NINE WINDS DISCOGRAPHY:
NWCD0206 Jeff Kaiser - Music for Double Quartet
NWCD0210/220 The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - (2cd) The Other Bridge (Oakland 1999)
Jeff Kaiser is an award winning composer, trumpet player, conductor and private music instructor living in Ventura, California. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition from Westmont College and a Master of Music in Choral and Orchestral Conducting from Azusa Pacific University. He has played professionally with many different groups and individuals on television, radio and in concert halls throughout the United States and his music has been performed around the world. He is the recipient of numerous grants, honors and awards. He is a ten-time recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Ventura and a three time recipient of the Forum of the Arts Grant administered by the Ventura County Museum of History and Art. He has received critical praise in the Los Angeles Times, Ventura Star, The Santa Barbara Independent, Option Magazine, Cadence Magazine, The Wire, Signal-to-Noise, Opus One, The Reporter, L.A. Weekly, Blow-Up and numerous other publications throughout the world. In addition to composing, he is well known in creative music circles as a trumpet player performing with Eugene Chadbourne, The Michael Vlatkovich Brass Trio, Brad Dutz, The Motor Totemist Guild, Headless Household, The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble, Dan Plonsey and the Human Behavio Orchestra as well as his own ensembles. He is the founder and co-director of the Ventura New Music Concert Series, founder and co-editor of the NewCreativeMusic.com, and owner of the pfMENTUM record label. He has released seven CDs as leader/co-leader and has also appeared on CDs by Headless Household, The Motor Totemist Guild, Eugene Chadbourne, The Gove County Philharmonic and The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble. He did the musical score and sound effects for the award winning independent film by Ted Mills, Nowhereland. Nowhereland has been featured at film festivals in Iceland, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, England, Canada and festivals throughout the United States. The title work of his CD Ganz Andere was performed at the opening concert of the 1999 National Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States at San Jose State University. Templum-Tempus, also on Ganz Andere, was a runner-up in the PALMARES du 26e Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique, Bourges, France - 1999. He has been a private teacher since graduating from college and has coached brass, led seminars, and been a guest lecturer at numerous middle schools, high schools, and colleges, including being a visiting artist/lecturer at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. He is a published writer on music and art, with an essay about experimental music in an upcoming book by the Hertz-Lion Foundation. He is a member of the International Trumpet Guild, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
