In 1995, Schober studied Korean language and culture for six months at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Composition from the University of Michigan, where his primary teachers include William Bolcom, Michael Daughtery, and the late William Albright. Recently named a 1999 Aaron Copland Award recipient, Schober is one of seven winners invited to reside at Aaron Copland's house in New York to pursue composition. His Variations, the 1999 recipient of San Francisco State University's Wayne Peterson Prize, are not a traditional set of theme and variations. Rather, the work consists of six segments that are loosely based on related harmonic and thematic material.
Variations is scored for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion, and piano.
The composition is approximately nine minutes in duration. Donald Martino Donald Martino, born in 1931, holds degrees from Syracuse and Princeton Universities. His principal teachers include Ernst Bacon, Milton Babbitt and Roger Sessions. He has taught at Tanglewood, The New England Conservatory of Music, Brandeis University, Yale University, Princeton University, and most recently at Harvard University, where he is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus.