Christopher Gable is a Lecturer in Music, specializing in Music Theory and Composition. His music has been performed across the country, from Los Angeles to Moose Lake, Minnesota, and frequently includes references to and variations of all kinds of popular music. He has written in many genres, including orchestra, band, chamber, but has a special love for vocal music. His one-act chamber opera, The Ascension of Radegunde, is a science fiction story set in a medieval German abbey, and has a libretto by his wife, Merie Kirby. They have recently been commissioned to write an opera based on the history of the town of Ladysmith, Wisconsin. Dr. Gable has received performances and commissions from Zeitgeist, the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, St. John’s Lutheran Church of Madison, Wisconsin, Lake Harriet United Methodist Church, the Harding High School Bands, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, the Butler University Composers Orchestra, the University of Minnesota Concert Choir, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Civic Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, the UC Riverside Chamber Singers, and the Minnesota Philharmonic. He has taught Theory, Composition, and related subjects at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota and St. Olaf College, and studied at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.); his principal teachers were Dominick Argento, Judith Lang Zaimont, and Emma Lou Diemer.
Research interests include popular music, English change-ringing, and the music of Benjamin Britten. His first book, The Words and Music of Sting, was published in 2009 by Praeger Publishers.
December 2008 saw the world premiere of By the Fireside, a choral cantata commissioned by One Voice Mixed Chorus and the Minnesota Philharmonic. Dr. Gable has also been commissioned by the Flambeau Valley Arts Association to write The Ladysmith Story, a full-length opera about the founding and renaming of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, to be premiered in summer 2010.
His music is published by Dorn Publications (www.dornpub.com) and Graphite Music Publishing (www.graphitepublishing.com).
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