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Events:

• Uplifts: for solo clarinet (2008)
• A Wish to Behold: for concert band (2008)
• Earth Drums II: for solo marimba (2007)
• Kawaiisu: Latino for voice and piano (2007)
• Golden Children: for concert band (2006)
• a long forgotten Word, re-echoes: for orchestra (2006)
• Kawaiisu: Greeting for voice and piano (2005)
• B and Me revised for CSU All State jazz ensemble (2004)
• Becoming Again, for violin and cello (2004)
• Psalm for an Orange Angel for concert band (2003)
• Earth Drums: for solo marimba (2002)
• Becoming: for flute and marimba (2002)
• I Miss Him (Berryman Dream Song #111) for tenor, contrabass, and piano (2001)
• Henry’s Return (John Berryman: Dream Songs) for piano and narrator (2001)
• 1. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. (#14)
• 2. God bless Henry. He lived like a rat, (#13)
• 3. He stared at ruin, Ruin stared straight back. (#45)
• 4. The glories of the world struck me, made me aria, once (#26)
• 5. I don’t operate often. When I do, (#67)
• 6. Here, whence all have departed (#19)
• 7. I’m scared a lonely. Never see my son, (#40)
• 8. Seedy Henry rose up shy in de world (#77)
• Family Portrait (song cycle of 5 songs plus an interlude) for soprano and piano (2000)
• Alleluia for soprano and piano (2000)
• Time Lock (a love letter of remembrance) for horn and piano (1999)
• Skylark of Many Hearts for octet (1998)
• A Wish to Behold for orchestra (1998)
• Psalm of an Orange Angel for orchestra (1997)
• If Be You Cares for solo trumpet (1996)
• Oracle for orchestra (1996)
• D’s Blues for saxophone quartet (1996)
• There Is Only Love for voice and piano (1995)
• Stories Told in Blues for chamber group (1995)
• Lao-Tzu Aboard the Santa Maria for chorus (1994)
• Just Fine, and How About You? for chamber group (1993)
• Vision for string quartet, piano, and voice (1992)
• King of the Pool for chamber ensemble and voice (1990)
• Psychic Surround (Love Letter) for chamber ensemble (1988)
• Man Who Began ballet for chamber ensemble (1987)
• So Heavy for voice, piano, and double bass (1986)
• Dream Contours for chamber ensemble (1986)
• Dream Songs for voice, piano, and double bass (1985)
• Huffy Henry for tenor, double bass, and piano (1985)
• Love Letter for voice and piano (1983)
• This Is My Letter to the World for voice and piano (1982)
• B & Me for jazz ensemble (1982)
• Ghosts for electronic tape, piano, and percussion (1981)
• I’m Melody for chorus and solo piano (1981)
• Token for soprano and orchestra (1979, revised 1996)
• Dream Song for baritone and ensemble (1976)
• Composition II for Buchla Synthesizer (1974)
• Septet for strings and percussion (1974)
• Mass for jazz sextet (1973)
• Asare ballet for L’Atelier Vert (1973)
• Sanctuary for chamber ensemble (1972)
• Stones for piano (1970)
• A Murmur for high soprano (1970)
• String Quartet (1969)
• Evolving Harangue for wind ensemble and percussion (1969)
• Word-Sets for chorus and audience (1969)
• Passacaglia for orchestra (1968)
• Trilogy for big band (1968)
• Collage for piano (1968)
• Saxophone Sonata (1967)
• Jazz Tracks (1967)
• Child’s Reflection for orchestra (1967)
• Tonal Suite for saxophone duet (1966)

Recordings

• Stones, published by Bob Thiele, Ltd., Flying Dutchman Records (1971) and Zodiac Records (1976)
• Throwing the Sword and 4-Bar Blues, published by Wallace Music, Enja Records (1981)
• ‘llow’d, published by Wallace Music, Enja Records (1982), compact disc re-release (1997)
• Supreme My Holdings and All’s Afire, CSB records (1984)
• Love Letter for voice and piano, Contemporary Record Society (C.R.S.) (1987)
• B and Me, La Crosse Club, Lost Soughts, I Miss Him, Your Smile’s a Glory, Compact and Delicious, and Who Stepped on My Duck, CSB Records (1988)
• Psalm of an Orange Angel, performed by the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matyas Antal, Contemporary Recording Society (C.R.S.), compact disc is entitled Drama in Music and is CRS CD9971 (1998)
• Token, performed by Susanna Raymond, dramatic soprano and the Lviv Virtuosi Philharmonic conducted by Yuriy Lutsiv, Contemporary Recording Society (C.R.S.), compact disc is entitled Oliynyk-Davis-Wagner and is CRS CD0583 (2005)
• Family Portraits, selected as part of the Society of Composers Incorporated (SCI) Performers Series, was recorded by North Texas State University faculty artists, Lynn Eustis, soprano and Elvia Puccinelli, piano, on the CD entitled “Portraits” and was released by Capstone Records. (CPS-8792) (2008)

Doug Davis graduated summa cum laude and Phi Kappa Phi from the University of Tennessee where he studied with David Van Vactor and completed his Ph.D. from Harvard University working with Earl Kim and Leon Kirchner. At Harvard, he was selected by Leonard Bernstein to be the student member of the Norton Lectures Discussion Group. International performances include “Psalm of an Orange Angel” by the Hungarian Symphony (2008 Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition winner) and “Token” for voice and orchestra featured at the Ukrainian “Contrasts” festival (both recorded on CRS). In 2005, the Society of Composers selected “Family Portraits” for its recording of contemporary song cycles (released on Capstone). Several of his compositions have been recorded by jazz greats including Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, and Bennie Wallace. Davis is presently the Chairman of the Music Department at California State University, Bakersfield. He is the Director of the Bakersfield Jazz Festival, Legends of Jazz series, and the CSUB Guest Composers series. In 2003, he received the WANG Award, selected from the faculty of the entire 23 campuses of the California State University system. Monies received from this award now endow a scholarship dedicated to the creation and performance of new music.

Concerning his 14 settings from John Berryman’s "Dream Songs" and an LA Weekly "Pick of the Week," Brandt Reiter states, "Davis has a real ear for the poet’s shaggy rhythms and an artful, dramatic touch; his inventive settings are quite wonderful and exceedingly well-suited to Berryman’s text. Bluesy, playful and malevolent, with strong overtones of Bartók and Berg, the music is jarring, creepy and slyly seductive. And the disc, which I find compulsively listenable, is both appropriately unsettling and a hell of a lot of fun."