Craig Woodward

Artistic Associate

A Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, composer-pianist-improviser Craig Woodward has collaborated with dance, theater, visual art and film. He has over 70 works to his name, for a wide range of instrumentations (solo, chamber, vocal, choral, orchestral, electronic). He holds a MM from Manhattan School of Music and a BA from St. Thomas University (St. Paul, MN). His works have been performed in venues such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Issue Project Room, Galapagos, Juilliard, St. Bartholomew’s Church, Theater 80, Yamaha Studios, Greenwich Music House, Tenri Cultural Institute, and The Stone. Theater credits (composer): Merry Wives of Windsor, The Triumph of Love, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (MST), and The Arrogant Kickapod. Recent projects include writing text and music for Personification of a Play, a nonsense play for 4 speakers and percussion, and From Week 37 to Birth, a large-scale orchestral work which explores the sensory perceptions of his son from pre-birth through his first year. A few words: Sound fascinates me. I am focused on the dichotomies that exist within that world, and either isolate them or project them simultaneously. Additional emphases include working with multiple timbral and temporal planes, proportional and fractal-based forms, and the noise-pitch relationship.