James Oliverio
Digital Worlds Institute

Professor and Director
T: 294-2020
F:
E: oliverio@ufl.edu

Address:
102 FAA P.O. Box 115800
Gainesville, Fl 32611-5800


James Oliverio is active as a multimedia composer, educator and music producer. His credits range from internationally performed symphonic scores to five Emmy Award winning soundtracks for film and television. These original scores include “Time and Dreams”, commissioned as part of the United States’ successful bid for the 1996 Olympic Games, the WTBS “World of Audubon” series and the public television broadcast of his multimedia opera “StarChild”.

Oliverio served as Project Director and Artistic Consultant to Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center for the Millennium commission entitled “All Rise”, which recently had its European premiere in Prague with the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of Vladimir Valek. The full-evening work was world premiered on December 29 and 30, 1999 with Kurt Masur conducting the combined forces of the New York Philharmonic, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Morgan State Choir.

Oliverio’s multimedia opera “StarChild” premiered from Atlanta’s Olympic Village prior to the 1996 Summer Games, winning Oliverio his fifth Emmy Award upon its Public Television broadcast. Oliverio’s latest large-scale choral work “GENERATIONS” premiered at Atlanta Symphony Hall to standing ovations on May 14, 2000. Other commissions for the 1999-2000 Season came from the Valdosta Symphony and the Elgin Symphony, which opened and closed their 50th Anniversary season with the Oliverio’s new score “UnStoppable”. The Pittsburgh Symphony has commissioned a new score for its 2001 subscription series, and Oliverio is collaborating with computer artists and scientists to incorporate real-time digital animation into the live symphonic performances.

Oliverio served as Associate Professor and Director of Music Technology at both Georgia State University, and later at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994- 2000, where he was also Composer in Residence. At Georgia Tech he was the founding Director of the GVU AudioLab, based in the new Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT).

Oliverio’s Timpani Concerto #1 was premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra, and has been performed by numerous other ensembles including a recent performance at the Sydney Opera House. Other scores have been performed or commissioned by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, the Cleveland Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, the Macon Symphony, the Athens Jazz Festival, the Cleveland Modern Dance Association, the Atlanta Symphony and the orchestras of Chattanooga, Cincinnati, Eugene, Fort Wayne, Grand Rapids, Maryland, Augusta, Albany, Kharkov, Savannah, Spokane and the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, among others.

In addition to over 500 original soundtracks for film and television, Oliverio has won fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the American Composer’s Forum, the Georgia Council for the Arts and the City of Atlanta, including the Mayor’s Fellowship in the Arts, the city’s highest cultural honor.


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