David Toub David Toub (b. 1961, Newark, NJ) has been described as a postminimalist composer. He combines a diverse background in medicine, composition, business and information technology. Initially trained as a violinist, he began composing while in junior high school in Millburn, NJ. Although primarily self-taught, he studied composition on weekends in New York City at the Mannes College of Music from 1975-1977 and at the Juilliard School of Music's Pre-College Division from 1977-1979. At Juilliard, he majored in composition and studied with Sylvia Rabinof, Craig Shuler, Rebecca Scott and Bruce Adolphe. Toub's early 12-tone work, Four Landscapes for Six Instruments was performed at the inaugural concert of North/South Consonance (Max Lifchitz, conductor) at Symphony Space in New York City on 9/17/80. In recent years, his music has become more widely heard. A 96khz/24bit audio DVD containing mf for string quartet is available from OgreOgress productions. His music may be found on the Internet radio stations PostClassic Radio and Contemporary Classical Music, and has also been featured on Music from Other Minds on KALW-FM in San Francisco as well as on Classical Discoveries on WPRB-FM in Princeton, NJ. objects, for marimba, piano and electronic organ, was premiered by Hugh Sung, Daniel Beliavsky and Bill Solomon at the Sequenza 21 concert at Elebash Hall, CUNY on November 20, 2006. A more recent piece, this piece intentionally left blank for open instrumentation was premiered on May 9th, 2007 by the Diverse Instrument Ensemble conducted by Lloyd Rogers, as arranged by Paul Bailey. Toub has been married since 1991 to Debra Bernstein, and they have two children and reside in Wyncote, PA. Toub has also been active in reproductive rights for many years, was interim medical director at Planned Parenthood in Philadelphia, and served as a board member of the Philadelphia ACLU. He was also a buddy volunteer with ActionAIDS in Philadelphia for several years. Toub continues to compose music for different instrumental groupings, and his music is available for free downloading on a music section of his Web site (http://homepage.mac.com/dtoub/dbtmusic.html). Recent works include darfur pogrommen (open instrumentation), for philip glass (a two-hour work for string quartet in one extended section that has nothing to do with the aforementioned composer), this piece intentionally left blank (open instrumentation ), and he is presently completing a work for violin and piano entitled ushabti. http://homepage.mac.com/dtoub/dbtmusic.html

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