David Bobrowitz
Biography
David Bobrowitz (b. 21 February 1945, Brooklyn, N.Y.) is an American composer, arranger, conductor and trombonist.
Mr. Bobrowitz received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Mannes College of Music, majoring in Trombone Performance under Simon Karasick. He went on to Teachers College, Columbia University, where he earned a Masters Degree in Music Education. He studied composition independently under the tutelage of Robert Russell Bennett.
Mr. Bobrowitz has been a freelance bass trombonist, pianist, composer, and arranger in the New York area for more than 30 years. After a thirty-year career as a band and orchestra director and music department head, he retired from the Great Neck Public Schools in June 2000, and currently resides in Richmond, Virginia. Mr. Bobrowitz continues to be in demand as a performer, composer, and arranger.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Caribbean Carnival (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (Flex instrumentation)(as arranger) (2004/2020)
All Wind Works
- All Trails Lead West (2007)
- Allegro from "Symphony No. 10" (as arranger) (c. 1770/2015)
- American Gothic (2009)
- American Ramble (2016)
- Balfour Castle (2009)
- Caribbean Carnival (2007)
- Caribbean Carnival (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2020)
- A Chanukah Celebration (arr. Soper) (1995)
- City of Glass and Steel (2006)
- Clowns! Clowns! Clowns! (2009)
- The Comic (2012)
- A Concert Fanfare (2016)
- Diamond Falls (2013)
- Divertimento for Tuba and Band (2013)
- Fantasy on "March Slav" (as arranger) (1876/2019)
- Festival at Camelot (2017)
- Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1 (as arranger) (1862-76/2019)
- Grand Central Station (2016)
- The Iron Horse Across America (2009)
- The Iron Pagoda (2016)
- Irish Fantasy (2013)
- Luminosity and Other Colorations (1995)
- The Mall of America (2009)
- March of the Trolls (2007)
- Midnight Fair (2018)
- Mission: Explore Strange New Worlds (2010)
- Mozart: Symphony No. 29, First Movement (as arranger) (1774/2013)
- A New Orleans Moment (2012)
- A Night in Budapest (2016)
- Oceanic Scenes (2004)
- Procession at Bayham Old Abbey (2017)
- Ragtimeout (2017)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (as arranger) (2004)
- A Sailor's Odyssey (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2004/2020)
- Sonidos de Sevilla (2009)
- Symphony No. 1: Finale (as arranger). See: Finale from Brahms Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 29: First Movement (as arranger). See: Mozart: Symphony No. 29, First Movement
- The Traffic Circle (2017)
- Variations on "Russian Sailor's Dance" (as arranger)
- The Visionary (2006)
- Viva Mexico! (2015)
- Wheels (2016)
- Whodunit? (2004)
Resources
- David Bobrowitz website Accessed 15 May 2016
- Grand Mesa Music Publishers