Jared Spears

Jared Spears
Jared Spears
Birth name	Jared Tozier Spears
Born	August 15, 1936 (age 88); Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres	Wind band music
Occupation(s)	Composer and music teacher
Website	www.kendormusic.com/composer/spears.htm

Jared Tozier Spears (born August 15, 1936) is an American composer and music teacher.

Biography

Spears was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Spears attended the Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois and earned his Bachelor of Science in education, business technology (BSE). He also studied percussion and composition from the Cosmopolitan School of Music in Chicago, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in music. He then studied at the Northwestern University in Chicago and received his Ph.D. in composition. Among his teachers were Blyth Own, Alan Stout and Anthony Donato.

Spears taught music theory, music history, composition and percussion in both high schools and in universities. By 1999 he had worked 32 years in education before retirement. He is a professor emeritus of the Arkansas State University (ASU) in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

As a composer he wrote more than 300 works for concert band, choir, orchestra and ensembles. As a conductor he was a popular guest in the United States, Canada and Europe at festivals, youth camps and clinics. He received numerous awards and honors such as the Faricy Award for creative music from Northwestern University School of Music, the "Award of Merit" from the board of the Arkansas department of the National Federation of Music Clubs and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Compositions

Works for orchestra

Dance Diabolique, for string orchestra
Hill Point Fantasy - Overture for Orchestra

Compositions for band

1969 Kimberly Overture
1970 Dramatic Episode
1970 Neologue
1971 Chatham Overture
1972 Third Set
1972 Prologue and Pageant, suite
1973 Chronolog
1974 A Wind River Portrait
1974 Meditation and Festiva
1974 Triolog
1976 Premiere Passacaglia
1976 Wilderness Overture
1977 Momentations
1978 Novelette
1979 Alleluias
1979 Forest Park Overture
1980 At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral (for Concert Band with Dixieland Jazz Combo)
1981 Cantique and Festival
1981 Day of the Shofar
1981 Ritual and Capriccio
1981 Scenario
1982 Canticles
1982 Crestview
1982 Thunder Mountain Overture
1983 Prayer and Proclamation
1984 New Century Overture
1985 Westward Trails - General Words and Music
1985 March of the Martian Chickens
1986 Axon
1986 Jubilations
1986 Lament and Caprice
1986 Praeludium - based on chorale "Praise ye the Lord", the Almighty
1987 Colorama Overture
1987 Cannon Beach Overture
1987 Mission Creek
1987 New River Suite
1987 Roaring Mountain Overture
1987 Sentinel Overture
1989 Images and Faces from a World
1990 Castles of Llyr
1992 Spiritual
1993 The Water of the Myth
1996 Bravo!
1996 A Gathering of Angels
1997 Jubilation Overture
1998 The Adventurers
2000 Joyous Alleluias
2002 Mountain View Portrait
2005 Of Times Medieval - based on chorale "Veni Creator Spiritus"
2006 Return to Wind River
A Furious Fable
A Maverick Overture
A Sacred Set
Affirmation
Cahokia
Cantilena
Collocation for Winds and Percussion
Colorado Blue
Country Cameos, suite
Cyber Quest
Dawn Seeker
Deo Gratias
Fiesta Nueva
From a Schumann Album
Heartland Sketches
Heritage Hill
Images Diabolique
Legacy - Concerto, for three solo percussionists and band
March for Moderns
Northstar Overture
Novena
Of Honor, Joy and Celebration
Of Land and Sea
On Eagles' Wings
Ozark Folk Suite
Ritual and Celebration
Sansketch
Spirit Canyon March
Star Gazer
Star March
Stormy Point Overture
Suite Romantique
Sun Island Overture
The Brass Ring
The Dream Chasers
The Drums of Blackhawk
The Freedom Chronicles
The River Red
Wabash County Saga
Westwood Portrait
Where Legends Live
Wind River Overture

Chamber music

1997 A Kensington Portrait, for trombone quartet
Colossus, for trombone quartet
Divertimento for Tuba Ensemble
1. Invention
2. Melodrama
3. Dance
4. Chorale
5. Toccata
Stratford Point, for trombone quartet

Works for percussion

Allegro Fantastica, for percussion quartet
A Time For Jazz
Bayport Sketch
Caccia Caper
Cameo Suite
1. March For Mopeds
2. Dreamscape
3. Caper
Ceremonium
Collidescope
Collisions
Country Variations
Dynamo
Incantation And Festal Dance, for percussion octet
Malletrix
Mosaics
Proclamations
Ragtime Renegade
Run, for percussion sextet
Scamper
Spiritus!, for percussion quintet
Two Episodes
Two Frescos
Windstone Suite
1. Windstone
2. Drone Dance
3. Distant Songs & Incantations
4. Visions & Jubilations
Woodworks

Bibliography

Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan: Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens, 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7
Jean-Marie Londeix: Musique pour saxophone, volume II : répertoire général des oeuvres et des ouvrages d' enseignement pour le saxophone, Cherry Hill: Roncorp Publications, 1985.
E. Ruth Anderson: Contemporary American composers - A biographical dictionary, Second edition, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, 578 p., ISBN 978-0-816-18223-7
James R. Pebworth: A directory of 132 Arkansas composers, Fayetteville, Arkansas: University Library, University of Arkansas, 1979, 89 p.