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Douglas Detrick
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Full Biography:Douglas Detrick’s work does not fit into any one category, but revolves around creating a more colorful,
diverse and vibrant world through art and culture. He is a composer, a trumpet player, a curator, a singer, a writer, a poet and
an arts consultant. Detrick was born in New Jersey and educated in Wisconsin, but his upbringing near Portland, Oregon has
had the biggest influence on who he has become: His music most often finds the performers taking part in an auditory
ecosystem, where each player chooses what to play based on what the immediate musical environment, like his memories of
playing outside beneath the giant fir trees of his green homeland. Detrick resides in New Rochelle, New York.
Since joining the New York community in 2010 he has performed at many of the city’s premiere creative music venues
including the Stone and Issue Project Room, performed the music of Christian Wolff with the composer and the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company, joined the curatorial team of Dave Douglas’ Festival of New Trumpet Music, begun writing
about music for several publications and working for the music community as an arts consultant to individuals and to several
arts organizations. In addition to his continuing work with AnyWhen Ensemble, Detrick has also formed a new ensemble with
bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck, violist Karen Waltuch and guitarist Jonathan Goldberger called the Cartography Ensemble, a
group dedicated to playing Detrick’s original songs that meld folk, jazz and classical music into a unique hybrid.
He started his improvising chamber group Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble in Eugene, Oregon to play music written for
his Master’s thesis recital. Since then, the group was awarded a 2011 New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America,
with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, has recorded three albums and performed throughout New York and
the West Coast, including New York’s The Stone and at Seattle’s Is That Jazz? Festival. He and the quintet will perform the
concert-length suite commissioned by Chamber Music America in 2012 at the Festival of New Trumpet Music and throughout
the US in the group’s 2012-13 season. The group was also awarded a FONT commission through the CMA Presenting Jazz
program, which will present the group in three FONT events in New York, Portland and Chicago. AnyWhen Ensemble has also
collaborated with the acclaimed pianist Wayne Horvitz, and plans to release an album featuring him in 2013.
Detrick spent a formative four years in Eugene, Oregon. He moved there to earn his Master’s of Music from the University of
Oregon, and served two years as a graduate teaching fellow. During his time in Eugene, Detrick founded Douglas Detrick’s
AnyWhen Ensemble, the Douglas Detrick Quintet, the Detrick/Swigart Big Band, and co-founded the improvising trio Any
Permutation. He also performed with the Oregon Festival of American Music and the Emerald City Jazz Kings, a big band that
re-created music from the golden era of the big bands. His studies with Brian McWhorter had a profound impact on his vision
for the future of his work, and it was here that Detrick decided to follow his own path into whatever music called to him, rather
than trying to fit his work into one single genre.
Detrick has been commissioned by Beta Collide, a leading new music ensemble led by trumpeter Brian McWhorter, of the
Meridian Arts Ensemble and Grammy winning flutist Molly Barth, formerly of Eight Blackbird; he Meridian Arts Ensemble; the
Willamette Jazz Collective; The Little William Theatre Festival of New Music; saxophone soloist Kimberly Reece; the arts nonprofit Spark and Echo and others.
Detrick has received several grants and awards as a composer:
• 2011 New Jazz Works grant from Chamber Music America
• 2011 Presenting Jazz grant from Chamber Music America
• Honorable mention in the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards in 2009 for his composition “Cape Creek” for Douglas
Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble
• 2007 Downbeat Student Music Award for his arrangement of Duke Ellington's "Single Petal of A Rose".
• 2007 Meridian Arts Ensemble's first Composition Contest winner. The MAE premiered "As the Crow Flies" in a recital
at the Manhattan School of Music in September of 2007 and performed the piece in Bulgaria and Mexico.
Detrick’s work as an arts consultant has found him working with the Festival of New Trumpet, the American Composer’s
Alliance, and many individual artists. He specializes in music, but helps artists and arts organizations of all stripes to achieve
their goals through program development, fundraising, and communications. He offers a course entitled “A Workshop for
Artists: How to write effectively about your music on your website, to the press and to potential funders” that focuses on
helping artists prepare for, seek and capitalize on professional opportunity for their work.
Detrick writes about music for several publications including New Music Box, The Curator and Jazz.About.com. He has also
been commissioned by the EveryPeople Workshop to write the short story “feathered” that was featured in the group’s Short
Short Stories series, curated by John Sutton. Detrick also writes poetry and was awarded the Hicks Prize in Poetry from
Lawrence University.
He also holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree in trumpet performance with jazz emphasis from Lawrence University of Appleton,
WI. There he studied trumpet with John Daniel, jazz composition with Fred Sturm, and classical music composition with
Joanne Metcalf.