Timothy Broege

Timothy Broege

Biography

Timothy Broege (b. 6 November 1947, Belmar, N.J.) is an American composer and organist.

Broege studied piano and theory with Helen Antonides during his childhood years. At Northwestern University he studied composition with M. William Karlins, Alan Stout, and Anthony Donato, piano with Frances Larimer, and harpsichord with Dorothy Lane, receiving the degree Bachelor of Music with highest honors in 1969. From 1969 to 1971 the composer taught in the Chicago Public School System, after which he served as an elementary school music teacher in Manasquan, New Jersey, until 1980. At the Monmouth Conservatory of Music he taught piano and recorder from 1985 to 1995. He currently holds the positions of Organist and Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Belmar, a position he has held since 1972, and Organist and Director of Music at the historic Elberon Memorial Church in Elberon, New Jersey.

The music of Timothy Broege has been performed throughout the world by, among others, the Monmouth Symphony Orchestra, the Garden State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Meadows Wind Ensemble, the U.S. Military Academy Band, the New Jersey Chamber Singers, the Atlantic String Quartet, the Cygnus Ensemble, pianist Robert Pollock, guitarist Francis Perry, and recorder virtuoso Jody Miller. He has received numerous grants and commissions from schools, universities, professional performers and Meet the Composer.

His works include the twenty-one sinfonias for large ensembles, the series of songs without words for chamber ensembles, and a series of fantasias for solo instruments, as well as music for voices, keyboards, guitar, recorders and school bands. His music has been featured at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Mid-West Band & Orchestra Clinic, and the College Band Directors National Association. He has appeared frequently as a guest composer/conductor and clinician, and has received the Edwin Franko Goldman Award from the American School Band Directors’ Association. To honor his career as a composer he received the 2003 Award of Excellence from the New Jersey Education Association. He is a past president of the Composers Guild of New Jersey, Inc., a member of the Organ Historical Society, and an affiliate of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).

In addition to his compositional activities, Timothy Broege is an active recitalist on early keyboard instruments and recorder. He writes the On the Cutting Edge column for The American Recorder magazine and maintains a teaching studio at his home in Bradley Beach, New Jersey. Since 2006 he has been the pianist with The John Gronert Jazz Trio.

Works for Winds

• America Verses (1997)
• Bartok Variations (as arranger) (2003)
• Blue Alien Accumulation (2003)
• Blue Goose Rag (as arranger) (1916/1986)
• Burlesco for Band (2006)
• Charlotte Doyle's Voyage
• The Child and the Kings (1995)
• Children and Gentlemen (as arranger) (2010)
• Climbing Eagle Mountain (2009)
• Concert Piece for Trumpet and Band
• Concerto for Marimba
• Deep River (as arranger) (2006)
• Dreams and Fancies (1988)
• Dreams of the Blue River (2009)
• El Jardin de Esperanza (2008)
• Enumeration of the Actual
• Fable and Folk Tale (2005)
• Falling Water (2015)
• Forest Green (as arranger) (2007)
• Four Breton Dances (2007)
• Four in One (2015)
• Geneva (2006)
• Geography of the Dream (Three Pieces for American Band, Set III)
• Green Passacaglia (2005)
• Greensleeves (as arranger)
• Grizzly Bear Rag (1994)
• The Headless Horseman (1973/1980)
• Jody
• Kum Ba Yah (2004)
• Mysterian Landscapes (2001)
• No Sun, No Shadow, Elegy for Charles Mingus
• Old Welsh Reverie (2009)
• Partita for Band (2017)
• Peace Song (1990)
• Pilgrim Traveler (2005)
• Prelude and Fughetta (2005)
• Procession and Torch Dance (1999)
• Rhythm Games: The Waukesha Rondo (2010)
• Rhythm Machine (1986)
• Scale Plus Line (2009)
• Seneca Variations (2015)
• Serenade
• Serenata
• Sinfonia III: Hymns and Dances
• Sinfonia IV: Suite for Winds and Percussion
• Sinfonia V: Symphonia Sacra et Profana (1990)
• Sinfonia VI: The Four Elements (1982)
• Sinfonia XII: Southern Heart, Sacred Harp
• Sinfonia XIII: Storm Variations
• Sinfonia XIV: Three Canzonas
• Sinfonia XV: Ursa Major
• Sinfonia XVI: Transcendental Vienna (1995)
• Sinfonia XVII: The Four Winds
• Sinfonia XVIII: Aurora (2009)
• Sinfonia XIX: Preludes and Grounds
• Sinfonia XXI (2000)
• Slow March with Celebration
• Sonata for Wind Band (1994)
• Song and Variations (2001)
• Southern Suite
• Streets and Inroads (1975/1980/1996)
• Surfboard Blues
• The Tango Disappearing (2010)
• Theme and Variations (1995)
• Three Pieces for American Band, Set I (1974)
• Three Pieces for American Band, Set II (1982)
• Three Preludes (as arranger)
• Three Scenes (2010)
• Toccata for Band (2015)
• Train Heading West and Other Outdoor Scenes (1998)
• The Water Is Wide, from A Jack Stamp Suite (2017)
• Wicked Story (2008)
• Yuletide Dances

Resources

• Camphouse, Mark, editor. (2002). Composers on Composing for Band. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 43–78.
• Connors, Thomas. (2004, July) "Timothy Broege: From conducting to composing." The Instrumentalist 58(12), 10–14
• Fullmer, David. (2003). "Timothy Broege." In: A Composer's Insight, Volume 1. Galesville, Md.: Meredith Music Publications. pp. 1–14.
• Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. (2010). Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 1. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp. 148.
• "Prelude and Fughetta." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 9, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 213-228. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2013.
• Ratliff, David. "Green Passacaglia." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 6, edit. & comp. by Richard Miles, 195-200. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2007.
• Timothy Broege website