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After receiving a Fulbright Scholarship in composition to Italy, David Keberle remained in Rome for sixteen years and worked as a free-lance composer and clarinetist specializing in new music. His "Soundings", a series of pedagogical compositions utilizing extended techniques for soloists and student ensembles, have been premiered by illustrious soloists including clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor, violinist/violist Ida Kavafian, the German recorder collective QNG, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Horn Quartet. As a clarinetist he has performed in concerts and music festivals in North America, South America, China, Europe and the Middle East and has participated in recording sessions at IRCAM in Paris and the RAI, Italian National Radio in Rome. In addition he was one of the founders of ElectraVox Ensemble, a live electronics performance group based in Rome.
Scholarships / Publications :
Keberle has been awarded an Astral Career Grant from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Award, an Individual Artist Grant from the A.W. Mellon Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, Meet the Composer Awards as well as fellowships from the MacDowell and Millay Colonies. His compositions are published and recorded by EDIPAN, Rome and BMG Ricordi, Rome. A Cd entitled '900 Musica, Il Clarinetto: David Keberle, devoted to Keberle's works for clarinet, and bass clarinet as well as works composed expressly for him, is available on the BMG-Ariola label.
Since the fall of 2004 he has been a member of the music faculty in the Performing and Creative Arts Department at The College of Staten Island/City University of New York where he teaches composition, clarinet, electronic music and music theory.