Stanley Walden
Born 1932, Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
B.A., Music, Queens College, New York
Clarinet study with David Weber
Composition study with Ben Weber
Clarinetist with New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, etc. 1958-1990
TEACHING
Faculty: Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Institute, S.U.N.Y. Purchase
Guest: Eastman School, Yale, S.M.U.
Founder/Chairman (Honorary for Life): Department of Musical Theater, Universität der Künste/Berlin (1990-2001)
American Dance Festival: Young Choreographers and Composers Project
OPERAS
Liebster Vater (commissioned by Bremen Stadttheater, also produced in Berlin, Weimar, New York)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (Gertrude Stein; New York, Cologne)
Bachs Letzte Oper (Stadttheater Erfurt)
ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Invisible Cities (for the Philadelphia Orchestra/Leinsdorf)
Circus (Louisville/Mester, Chicago/Ozawa, Cleveland/Lane)
Weewis (Joffrey Ballet)
After Auschwitz (Musica Viva, Eastman School, Budapest Chamber Symphony, Potsdam Symphony)
CHAMBER MUSIC
Commissions for Reri Grist, Jan DeGaetani, Robert Levin, Gilbert Kalish, Joel Krosnick, Carole Cowan, The Verdehr Trio
THEATER MUSIC, MUSICALS
THE OPEN THEATER:
The Serpent
The Mutation Show
The Winter Project
Oh! Calcutta! (with The Open Window; Broadway/International)
Scuba Duba ( B.J. Friedman, off-Broadway)
Turtlenecks (with Paul Desmond; B.J. Friedman, Detroit)
Back Country (Jacques Levy; Boston)
Miami Lights (Jacques Levy; Miami, Palo Alto)
Pinkville (George Tabori; New York, Berlin)
Café Mitte (Volker Ludwig: Berlin)
Bahn Frei! (Mathias Ulbricht; Berlin)
Dogs (George Tabori; Berlin)
Die Bettleroper (Kurt Bartsch; Berlin)
Claire (Manfred Karge; Bochum)
Faust (Bad Hersfeld)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Berthold Brecht; Arena Theater, Washington, D.C.)
Endangered Species (with Richard Peaslee, Martha Clarke, Brooklyn Academy of Music)
50+ productions with George Tabori, U. S. and Europe (Burg Theater/Vienna, Berliner Ensemble, etc.)
Butterfly Madam (B. Peachy) Palm Springs
Die Goldberg Variationen (Tabori) Badische Staatstheater, Karlsruhe
BOOKS
Life Upon The Wicked Stage (with Barbara Walden) Kallmeyer Verlag, German and English editions
Telling Time: Reflections on a Life In Music, Stanley Walden’s Autobiography. (Click here to read online or download)
FILMS
Desperado City (Camera d’or, Cannes, 1982)
Frohes Fest (ZDF, Mannheim Film Prize)
The Crazy American Girl (Greenwich Films, Paris)
Claire (WDR)
RECORDINGS
The Open Window (Vanguard)
Circus (Louisville Records)
Some Changes (Albany)
Oh! Calcutta! (DRG)
Songs of America (Nonesuch)
Café Mitte (CD-Sony; DVD-GRIPS Theater)
Stanley Walden Chamber Music (Naxos, American Classics)
SOLO APPEARANCES
Liebster Kurt…Dein Stanley with Sabrina Ascacibar (Kurt Weill Festival/Dresden, throughout Germany; University Club, New York)
Solo program with Hanna Schygulla (Hebel Theater/Berlin)
Solo recitals in Vienna, Bochum, Munich, Cologne
ACTING
Zum Zweiten Mal (J. C. Carriere, Der Kreis/Vienna, with Hanna Schygulla and Leslie Malton)
Desperado City (film, Vadim Glowna)
Frohes Fest (George Tabori film)
Jubiläum (G.Tabori, Bochum)
CONDUCTOR
The Joffrey Ballet
American Dance Festival, Young Choreographers and Composers Program
Brandenburg Philharmonic, Budapest Chamber Orchestra
Spectrum Concerts/Berlin
Kurt Weill Festival, Dessau
DIRECTOR
Der Tod Dankt Ab (Victor Ulmann) with Wiener Kammeroper, Berlin Hebbel Theater
Final Callback (Universität der Künste, Berlin)
JURY MEMBER
Lotte Lenya Competition
Bertelsmann Neue Stimmen
Deutsches Musical Wettbewerb
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS
Grammy Nomination, Oh! Calcutta! (1969)
Constitutional Commission, Invisible Cities (Philadelphia Orch. 1986)
ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Award (2006)
Fantasy Variation for Gilbert Kalish (Gilmore Festival, 2004)
Maquettes for Two Pianos for Robert and Yafei Levin (2001)