Vince Gassi
Biography
Vince Gassi (b. 3 October 1959) is a Canadian composer, conductor and clinician.
Dr. Gassi received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and later studied composing and arranging at the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, California. He recently completed his Ph.D. at York University in Toronto, Canada.
With over 100 published titles to his credit since 2006, Vince's works appear on many international concert and contest lists. He continues to receive many commissions, and his works have been recorded and performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. His pieces are frequently performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
For twenty-five years Vince has taught instrumental music at the elementary and secondary school levels. He is in frequent demand as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the United States and Canada. His Cool Ideas, Arranging Concepts, Digital Workflows, and Creativity Workouts seminars focus on ways to engage students and teachers in the creative process.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Where Stand the Dauntless (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
All Wind Works
- After Images (2019)
- Amplitude (2015)
- Avinu Malkeinu (as arranger) (2013)
- Bang Zoom! (2014)
- Big Raven (2009)
- Brain Dance (2019)
- Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (as arranger) (2015)
- A Cambridge Carol (as arranger) (2007)
- A Canadian Christmas (2012)
- Canadian Folk Trilogy (as arranger) (2009)
- Cape Breton Lullaby (as arranger) (2011)
- Chariton Chronicles (2019/2020)
- Chase the Shouting Wind (2014)
- A Chesapeake Bay Adventure (2008)
- Chimera (2011)
- A Christmas Canticle (as arranger) (2014)
- Climb the Mountains Tall (2012)
- Code of Honor (2010)
- Covenant (2021)
- Crusade (2006)
- Djembe Laya (2016)
- Engage (2018)
- Event Horizon (2018)
- Flight of The Intrepid (2007)
- G Force (2015)
- Genesis (2010)
- The Holly and the Ivy (2012)
- I Saw Three Ships (as arranger) (2012)
- Impulse Power! (2018)
- Invocation and Psalm (2011)
- Journey to Aldebaran (2008)
- Kaboom! (2017)
- Land of the Midnight Sun (2008)
- Land of the Silver Birch (as arranger) (2011)
- Legends of the Yucatan (2009)
- The Moon of Winter (as arranger) (2010)
- Mysterion (2013)
- O Canada (as arranger) (2009)
- O Christmas Three (as arranger) (2019)
- Oak Island Odyssey (2013)
- Oracle (2020)
- Phenom (2010)
- Retrograde (2021)
- Rise of the Avatar (2017)
- Rite of Ascension (2009)
- Rock Paper Scissors (2013)
- Rouge Valley Celebration (2011)
- Sails (2014)
- Ships With Sails Unfurled (2007)
- Stay Cool (2010)
- The Temple of Guan Yu (2015)
- To Cross the Sleeping Green (2019)
- Tsunami (2005/2006)
- Variations on an English Folk Song (as arranger) (2010)
- Vectors (2015)
- Vision Quest (2012)
- The Water is Wide (as arranger) (2014)
- We Stand on Guard (2015)
- Where Stand the Dauntless (2020)
- Where Stand the Dauntless (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
- Wings (2012)
- Wings of Apollo (2016)
- Zero to Ninety! (2019)
Resources
- Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. "Vince Gassi." Accessed 10 May 2015.
- Vince Gassi website