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Mountain view resident, composer and music teacher Brian Ciach has been awarded the American Prize in Music Composition, a competition that recognizes performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings.
Ciach, who teaches at Santa Clara University and the Hunter School of Music in San Jose, holds a doctorate in music composition from Indiana University, two master’s degrees in composition and piano performance from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Temple University. The prize was awarded for a chamber piece inspired by a medical slide of Albert Einstein’s brain found in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.
Ciach composes for both traditional and unusual electronic instrumentation.
“I have also written a ‘Vegetable Requiem’ and a piece for orchestra and food instruments and talking dolls which depict various medical oddities found in the Mütter Museum … I often am fascinated by the unusual and find wonderful inspiration in these things and create music that I never would have previously imagined,” Ciach said.
The Pennsylvania native is now a proud local. He added that he met his wife, who works at Stanford University, on University Avenue in Palo Alto. “We live near Castro Street and really enjoy walking to the restaurants and bars,” he said.
His winning composition, “The Einstein Slide,” can be listened to at Soundcloud.
Congratulations, Brian! Thank you for adding more music to our world!