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Stephen Bulla is an American composer and musician best known compositions for the United States Marine Band and The Salvation Army.

Musical artist

Early life and education

Stephen Bulla attended music camps as a youth, including The Salvation Army camp Star Lake in Bloomingdale, New Jersey. Bulla graduated in 1976 from Berklee College of Music with a degree in music composition.

Career

After his graduation in 1976, Bulla worked as a freelance writer in New York City. In 1980, Bulla became a staff arranger for The President's Own Marine Corps Band in Washington, DC, and then later chief arranger. Bulla held this position until 2010, composing music for the Marine band, which performed at White House events, including presidential inaugurations, state funerals, and state visits. Upon Bulla's retirement from the Marine band, John Williams cited him as "one of the most accomplished musicians of his generation."

In 2003, the Library of Congress commissioned Bulla to complete the final march of John Philip Sousa, the Library of Congress March. Sousa died in 1932 before the march's completion. Bulla completed the composition.

Bulla composed musical scores for the Discovery Channel for NASA documentaries, and for the PBS series In Performance at the White House. Bulla has written many pieces exclusively for The Salvation Army, including the New York Staff Band. Bulla conducted the National Capital Band of The Salvation Army for fifteen years, and thirteen years as music director of New England Brass Band and Brass Of The Potomac. Bulla also participated in a trombone-only ensemble, "Spiritual to the 'Bone."

Awards

References

When Patrick Steven Bulla was born on 22 September 1943, in Davidson, North Carolina, United States, his father, Clarence Felton Bulla, was 29 and his mother, Martha Arline Beck, was 27. He lived in Cotton Grove Township, Davidson, North Carolina, United States in 1950 and Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States in 1979. He died on 9 June 1979, in Southmont, Davidson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States.

date of birth: 30.01.1953

Stephen Bulla is not only famous as a composer and arranger, but also as the conductor of one of America's most prominent brass bands, the National Capital Band of The Salvation Army. He received his degree in
arranging and composition from Boston's "Berklee College of Music" where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Today Stephen Bulla is the resident arranger of "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band and White House Orchestra. In this capacity he regularly arranges and composes pieces for these formations. His musical arrangements for many performers, including Sarah Vaughan and The Manhattan Transfer, were featured on the PBS television series, "In Concert At The White House".

Additionally, Mr. Bulla is involved in studio production and has composed soundtracks to radio and television commercials and documentaries for NASA. In 1990 he was
awarded the prestigious ADDY award for best original music for a TV spot.

Bulla's concert band compositions are published exclusively by CURNOW MUSIC
PRESS. With a growing catalog of works, published and recorded in the U.S. and abroad, Mr. Bulla travels frequently as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician.