Liam Wade
Composer
Biography
LIAM JAMES WADE (b.1978)
Composer / Arranger / Double Bassist
Liam Wade currently lives in San Diego, CA where he works for La Jolla Music Society and composes on commission. His recent projects include his String Quartet No. 2-The Canadian Quartet for the Cecilia String Quartet, 4 Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay for Soprano and String Quartet for soprano Ann Moss, Torrey Pines Overture for string orchestra and Songs Without Words for the MAYA ensemble in New York City.
Mr. Wade is currently arranging the songs of Los Angeles composer Weslie Brown, and the music of Janis Joplin,“Weird Al” Yankovic and Zappa for the Firebird Ensemble’s 2009 Meat the Composer concert at Redbones in Somerville, MA.
Mr. Wade was invited to study composition for three summers at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. During the winters, he continued his study of counterpoint and composition as a private student of Dr. Philip Lasser in New York.
In 2002, Liam moved to Cambridge, MA where he wrote for many performers in the Boston area including: Andrew Eng, Ann Moss, Philip Steudlin, The Chagall Quartet and Quartet X. He organized the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, a new music performance group at the Zeitgeist gallery in Cambridge. in 2004 he was a featured composer on the Modern American Music Concert Series at the Longy School of Music and at the Goethe Institute in Boston.
Composer / Arranger / Double Bassist
Mr. Wade is currently arranging the songs of Los Angeles composer Weslie Brown, and the music of Janis Joplin,“Weird Al” Yankovic and Zappa for the Firebird Ensemble’s 2009 Meat the Composer concert at Redbones in Somerville, MA.
Mr. Wade was invited to study composition for three summers at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. During the winters, he continued his study of counterpoint and composition as a private student of Dr. Philip Lasser in New York.
In 2002, Liam moved to Cambridge, MA where he wrote for many performers in the Boston area including: Andrew Eng, Ann Moss, Philip Steudlin, The Chagall Quartet and Quartet X. He organized the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, a new music performance group at the Zeitgeist gallery in Cambridge. in 2004 he was a featured composer on the Modern American Music Concert Series at the Longy School of Music and at the Goethe Institute in Boston.