We Have Everything We Need (2020) – Robert Gross (United States)
This piece is for piano and fixed media. The fixed media part is comprised of two parts for Absynth 5 synthesizer, and a reading of the poem “We Have Everything We Need,” a poem about climate change by the British poet Selina Nwulu.
Ann adds: be sure to check out the poem here; the penultimate stanza is especially powerful.
Rob adds: Climate change is a global existential crisis. It cannot be ignored and must be addressed. Artists, musicians, poets, and composers all have a voice and a platform on which to speak. It is imperative for us to speak out so that we will be heard.
Robert Gross is a composer, music theorist and music therapist. He received his DMA in music composition at University of Southern California where he also received a graduate certificate in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television. He also received an MA in Music for Film, Television and Theatre from the University of Bristol; an MM in Music Composition from Rice University; and a BM in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory. He has taught graduate and undergraduate level music theory at Rice University.
Composition awards and honors include winner of the Arch Composition Award for Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments; co-recipient of the Harry Warren Award for Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television from University of Southern California; Winner, tri-annual Inter-American Music Awards Composition Competition for Sonata for Solo Unaccompanied Violin.
He has presented papers at the national Society for Music Theory conference, the Texas Society for Music Theory Conference, the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, and Society of Composers, Inc. Music theory publications include Perspectives of New Music. He is a Board Certified Music Therapist, with an MA in Music Therapy from Texas Woman’s University. His music therapy articles have been published in Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy and in Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy.
Ann DuHamel 