GEOFFREY GIBBS is professor emeritus of music at the University of Rhode Island where he has taught composition, theory, and orchestration since 1965. He studied composition privately in his teens with Elie Siegmeister, and later at the Eastman School of Music with Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Wayne Barlow. A doctorate in composition and voice was completed at Eastman in 1974.
He has composed four symphonies, two operas, three concertos, chamber music for various instrumental combinations and electronic sounds, many choral works including an oratorio, and over a hundred songs. His works have been performed throughout New England and in New York, Florida, South Dakota, Wyoming, Washington D.C., South America, and Moscow (Russia). His ballet, TRIAD, was premiered by the Island Moving Company of Newport in 1992.
As president of the Rhode Island Composers Forum in the 1980's, he directed yearly series of concerts introducing the works of regional composers.
