Gregory Short

The Basket:

Don Caron:

Greg Short
1938-1999
Orchestrator for The Basket

Greg Short's role in the completion of the score for "The Basket" was to orchestrate The Game and Closing Credits sequences. Caron supplied him with an eight staff version of the material with suggestions for how this might be orchestrated.

      Greg's job was to watch a video version of the movie and supply an orchestration that he felt most closely fit the action on the screen.

     He also acted as an advisor on the Opera sections of the score, checking for historical accuracy and appropriate instrumentation (The opera was intended to sound as though it was written prior to 1918). For examples of Greg's orchestrations listen to The Game and Zusammen Werden Wir Fliegen.

Born: August 14, 1938 (12:03am)
Place: Toppenish, Washington
Died: April 1, 1999
Education:
    High School - Renton, Washington
    Juilliard School of Music, University of Washington, University of Oregon
        Doctor of Musical Arts - University of Oregon
Awards:
    Best Composition 1970, Eugene Women's Choral Society
    Washington State Centennial Artist, 1989
        Washington State Composers Piano Recital included in the 1989 Centennial Day Celebration and Time Capsule
    Composer of the Year, 1989, Washington State Music Teachers Association

Member: Pi Kappa Lambda, Beta Theta Chapter
Member: American Music Center (NY)
Manuscripts on display, International Moldenhauer Archives, Spokane, Washington
Listed in several biographical dictionaries including Ruth Baker's Contemporary American Composers and Marquis Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World

Radio and Television

Intermission Speaker, Sunday Symphony of the Air, KETO am, 1967-69
Originator, writer, performer of The American Composer
twelve, one hour, lecture-performance series, KCTS TV, Seattle, 1968-69

VCR and Film

Music: Clean Air--A Common Objective, USDA Forest Service [VCR, 1989]
Orchestrator: The Basket, North By Northwest Entertainment, [film, 1999, staring Peter Coyote and Karen Allen]

Co-Founder

Seattle Classical Music Supporters, Northwest Composers Alliance, Northwest Composers Festivals 1973-74, Classical Artists Support Association

Lecturer

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Music and Arts Foundation, Washington State Music Teachers Association, Ladies Musical Club (Seattle), Northwest Composers Festivals, Oregon State Music Teachers Association

Adjudicator

Washington State Solo and Ensemble Contest, Washington State Music Teachers Association, Seattle Music Teachers Association, East Side Federation of Teachers, Bellevue Arts Festival, San Francisco Opera Auditions

Previous Teaching

Cornish School of Allied Arts, Seattle WA: Piano, Theory
Highline Community College, Midway, WA.: Class Piano, Theory, Music Director for Drama Department
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.: History, Class Piano, Theory
Private Instructor, Eugene, OR.: Piano
Private Instructor, Seattle, WA.: Piano, Composition

Current Positions

Music Director: Saint Francis Episcopal Church, Mill Creek, Washington
Adjunct Instructor, Skagit Valley College: Piano, Music Literature, Music History, A Social History of Rock
Private Instructor, Whidbey Island: Composition and Piano

Special Note

Acknowledged as the first Northwest performer - from 1963 - to extensively feature music by American and Northwest composers.
One of the most frequently performed Northwest composer in the Northwest.

Children:
    Kemberly Shiobhan (Sheridan)
    Aric Grayson
Grand Children:
    Jessica Sheridan, Hillary Sheridan, Grant Sheridan, Hailey Sheridan, Alexia Sheridan

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