Biography
Liam James Wade
liamjwade@gmail.com
Liam Wade is co-founder and Executive Director of CMASH. Since 2008, he has composed over 20 songs for soprano and CMASH co-director Ann Moss, as well as four string quartets for the Cecilia String Quartet and the Hausmann Quartet. In 2010-11, the Empyrean Ensemble premiered two large scale chamber music works at the Mondavi Center. Liam is currently collaborating with composer Weslie Brown, writer Doug Rice, and composer/visual artist Darren Buchanan.
In collaboration with the M2B Ensemble (Ann Moss, Heidi Moss, Steve Bailey), Liam has been creating and presenting the ever-evolving work, Funny Napkins, a collection of short comedic scenes on texts by Heidi Moss's four and six year old children, Ava and Hana.
Wade’s music has been presented by La Jolla Music Society, ProQuartet, Toronto Music Garden, Noe Valley Chamber Music, Concerts at Old First Church, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Firebird Ensemble’s Meat the Composer series and Classical Revolution's residency at Red Poppy Art House.
Wade studied composition at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France; Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA; and University of California, Davis. His primary composition mentors have been Philip Lasser, Howard Frazin, Kurt Rohde and Ross Bauer.
For the last two years he has participated at Dweezilla and 3 of a Perfect Pair Camp, intense summer workshops held near Woodstock, NY. There, he studied improvisation and musicianship with Zappa Plays Zappa, Flo and Eddie, and King Crimson.