GRAMMY-NOMINATED AND INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR – HELEN M. SMITH CHAIR OF MUSIC, CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Each "page" is its own self-contained entity. The music pages have "albums" which you can play by clicking on the album art or any of the individual tracks that are listed.
Many of my scores are for sale at SHEET MUSIC PLUS. They can be seen collectively on one page devoted to my music at the following link:
Clicking on the link for any given title will take you directly to the page for that piece where you can read more about it and purchase it.
I also have a few of these titles available at J. W. PEPPER. The following link will take you to a page listing my titles currently available there:
https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/search.jsp?keywords=Edward+David+Zeliff
The MARITIME ART page has samples of the work that I have done in that area over the years. I would love to hear from you, and you may reach me via the CONTACT page at the end of the site.
EDWARD DAVID ZELIFF, composer, pianist, arranger, and conductor, completed his Bachelor of Music in Composition at the California Institute of the Arts, and earned his Masters and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Composition from Claremont Graduate University. He spent many years in the religious, student, and secular film communities composing and conducting scores for short subjects and features, leading studio orchestras in London and Los Angeles. The feature film Beyond the Next Mountain, the Biblical documentary The Living Word, and the prize-winning student film Hairline are notable examples of his work in this medium.
Dr. Zeliff is partnered with Colombian soprano Maria Del Pilar in OPUS 2, a duo dedicated to the creation, discovery and performance of original and exotic repertoire from a variety of genres and styles of music. Written expressly for and premiered by Ms. Pilar is A Woman's Love, a one-woman theatre piece on poetry of Emily Dickinson, as well as a Christmas concert arranged for her and conducted by him, leading a 34-piece professional orchestra. Other recent premieres include The Sea Is Never Still and We Remember, commissions from the Mountainside Master Chorale, and Ocean of Possibilities, a tone poem for string orchestra, performed by Musique Sur La Mer, commissioned and directed by Marcy Sudock, who also premiered his In the Memory Of for solo cello and chamber orchestra at London's Royal College of Music.
Dr. Zeliff's catalogue features an extensive collection of choral works that have been performed nationally and internationally by many distinguished ensembles and conductors, including Irene Messoloras, Jean Sébastien Vallée, David Rentz, Bruce Rogers, Stephen Gothold, Michael Culloton, Richard Zielinski, and Phillip Brunelle, directors of the Mountainside Master Chorale, Chorale Bel Canto, Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester (MN), the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, and VocalEssence. In addition, he has numerous isolated art songs, song cycles, and two suites for solo piano, one of which, Out of Time, totally atonal and without time signatures and bar lines, was recently recorded by the acclaimed pianist Edith Orloff on her CD Personal Touch. His other piano suite, Of Roses, rooted in an impressionist mode of tonality, is an evocation of the "Journey of Life" as inspired by Life's Roses, an allegorical poem about the gathering of roses by the American poet Alice Cary, and is a featured item in his concert repertoire.
Dr. Zeliff is currently an adjunct professor of composition at Claremont Graduate University, teaches privately, and directs the music program at La Habra United Methodist Church, where he often provides new music for services and concerts. He is also in demand as a guest lecturer and performer at colleges and universities throughout Southern California.
EDWARD DAVID ZELIFF is also a maritime artist and historian. With the aid of his extensive personal research library, Dr. Zeliff produces portraits of a large variety of sailing ships throughout the late 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. He consults original builders' plans and existing sail plans, comparing these to contemporary portraits and photographs that may exist, though never copying any prior art work or photos. His preferred medium is pencil on illustration board, with a few older works done in pen and ink, watercolor, and oil on canvas. Samples of this facet of Dr. Zeliff's interest and skill are found on the Maritime Art page.
