Bob Gilmore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bob Gilmore

Northern Irish musician

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1961

Place of Birth: Larne, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Jan-2015

Profession: musician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bob Gilmore (6 June 1961 – 2 January 2015) was a musicologist, educator and keyboard player.
Born in Larne, Northern Ireland, he spent his early years in Carrickfergus.
He studied music at York University, England, and Queen's University, Belfast (PhD.
1992), and, on a Fulbright Scholarship, at the University of California, San Diego.
He was best known for his books on American music – Harry Partch: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1998) and Ben Johnston: Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music (University of Illinois Press, 2006), both of which were recipients of the Deems Taylor Award from ASCAP.
He also wrote extensively on the American experimental tradition, microtonal music and spectral music, including the work of such figures as James Tenney, Hora?iu Radulescu, Claude Vivier, and Frank Denyer.
He wrote on the work of younger Irish composers including Deirdre Gribbin, Donnacha Dennehy and Jennifer Walshe in the Journal of Music in Ireland.
He taught at Queens University, Belfast, Dartington College of Arts, Brunel University in London, and was a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent.
He was the founder, director and keyboard player of Trio Scordatura, an Amsterdam-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of microtonal music, and for the year 2014 was the Editor of Tempo, a quarterly journal of new music.
His biography of French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier was published by University of Rochester Press in June 2014.