Member Profile - Music Arrangers Guild of Australia

Member Profile: David Salisbury


Arranger?

Offers written quotes?

Software:
Adobe Audition
Adobe CS6
Adobe Premiere
Cakewalk/Sonar
Cubase
East West Goliath
Logic
Sibelius
Pro Tools
Reason 6
Sonar
Vienna Symphonic Library

Ensembles:
Concert Band/ Wind Band
Rock/ Contemporary/ Club
Chamber (String/ Brass / Woodwinds, etc)
Choral/ Vocal
Film/ TV
Jazz (Big Band/ Jazz Band)
Orchestral
Instrumental (Solo instruments)
Miscellaneous (Audiovisual/ Performance Art)
Percussion Ensembles
Folk/ Cultural

Qualifications:
BMus Jazz Composition and Arranging (Berklee College of Music); MA Ethnolmusicology (San Diego State University); PhD Ethnomusicology (University of New England); Graduate Diploma of Education - Secondary (University of Western Sydney)

Clients:
James Cook University; Stokes Nicholson Big Band; Townsville Concert Band; Penrith Concert Band; Barrier Reef Orchestra; 1RAR Band; Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Peter Britt Festival; Oregon Dance Theatre; Boston Theatre Works

Score resolutions:
A4, A3



Profile:
David has studied with some of the USA's most notable musicians.  At the Boston Conservatory of Music he studied with recognized composers Larry Bell and Chris Roze, both graduates of Julliard School of Music in New York City as well as Hugo Norden for counterpoint and Pascale Principe for saxophone and clarinet studies. At Berklee college of Music his lecturers included Michael Gibbs, Phil Wilson, Greg Hopkins, Herb Pomeroy and Barrie Nettles.

Salisbury was conferred a BMus cum laude in 1983 from Berklee College of Music in Boston, a Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from San Diego State University in 1991 and a PhD degree in Ethnomusicology from University of New England in 2001. 

He also has a Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) from the University of Western Sydney 2001. Â