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The National Association of Composers/USA
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If you're a performer, please visit our online Member Catalog. It lists 2150 works by 154 NACUSA composers and provides tools for customized searches.
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| Adrienne Albert | Dr. Joe L. Alexander | Greg Allen |
| Aaron Alon: Please visit the website for a complete list of recent compositions and arrangements with audio, biographical information, and upcoming performances! | Karen Amanda Amrhein | Beth Anderson |
William Ashworth: Composer, primarily of chamber music, often including voice. Recent works include "Island of Woods" for cello choir; "The Celtic Twilight" for soprano, flute, bassoon and vibraphone; "The Air of Other Planets" for piano solo; "Dover Beach" for soprano and large orchestra; and a cello sonata.
| Thomas C. Baggaley: Currently a Ph.D. Candidate (Music-Composition) at UCLA. Adjunct professor at Salt Lake Community College. Principal performance instrument: French horn. Various performances and film/TV credits. organization of new chapter, clerical help, about anything that needs to be done really | Jacob A Barton |
| Mrs. Agnes Bashir-Dzodtsoeva: Master's degree from Russian State Academy of Music in the name of Gnesin's, International Order of Merit (Cambridge),President of AAWM | Jeremy Beck: sound clips may be found on my website | John Beeman |
| Larry Bell: Home and Office ext. 5710 | Mikel Bell: I specialize in piano music and educational music for band and choir, especially for groups which may have limited or unusual instrumentation. I also compose for local film companies. | Al Benner, DMA |
| Marshall Bialosky | John G. Bilotta: Composer | Ed Bland |
| Peter Blauvelt | Marilyn Bliss | Gordon W. Bowie |
| Robert J. Bradshaw | Jennifer Shaffer Brandon: I am a composer, conductor, and vocalist in the Los Angeles area. | Debra Hinson Bridges: Sacred and liturgical music; choral arranging; Southern (US)hymnody and harmony.
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| Allen Brings | Dr. Timothy J. Brown | Wayne Burghardt |
| Peter Andreas Bussigel: Composer of both acoustic and electronic works as well as works for mixed media. For more information visit www.peterbussigel.com | Garrett Byrnes | Robert Thomas Caponi: Composer (classical, modern, 12-tone, &c.), also electronic (drum 'n' bass) music. |
| Raymond F. Chase | Richard J. Chiarappa: Conductor, Composer & Teacher Not sure at this time. | Adrian P. Childs |
| Jim Ciernia | Stephen M. Cohn: I am a Composer of concert and film music. I also orchestrate for other composers and teach music. I can offer assistance with Sibelius Notation Software. | Mr Andrew Seager Cole: Art Music Composition,Electroacoustic, Improvisation, Sound Art, Multimedia, Interactive Media Organization of a Baltimore/Washington D.C. Area chapter. |
| Quinn Collins | Brian Conn | Michael Robert Conti |
| I'lana Sandra Cotton | John M. Crabtree | Mr. Glenn Crytzer: Phone number on vaccation mode until 8/31/2006. Before 8/31, please contact by email. |
| James M. David | Ken Davies: Composer, trombonist, teacher, conductor. Art music, electroacoustic, and instrumental/digital media compositions. Please visit my website for additional information and sound clips.
| Ms. Julie Payne Davis: I am currently a senior composition student at UTA. I am a member of ASCAP, the Honors College at UTA, Alpha Chi, and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. I enjoy writing orchestral works of the dark variety, and hope to do some work for film/video media. I will help with anything, proving that I have time. I am working on preparations for my senior recital, so as long as it doesn't interfere with my work, I can assist. |
| Dante De Silva | Nancy Bloomer Deussen | L Peter Deutsch |
| Stephen M Feigenbaum: composition of chamber music and orchestral music | Joel Feigin | Brian Fennelly |
| Fabrizio Festa: Composer, Conductor, Keyboardist, Teacher (Conservatory and University) | W. Jördan Fitzhugh: Sacred music for SATB chorus. | Tom Flaherty |
| Prof. David Garner: mp3 downloads available at www.davidgarner.com | Herb Gellis | Beata Elzbieta Golec: Concert pianist and composer. >40 performances annually. More info at www.beatagolec.us |
| Dr. Christopher J. Greco | Jon Jeffrey Grier | James M. Guthrie |
| Robert Arnold Hall | Bruce E. Hamill | Jason Haney |
| Lars Hidde | Mr Christopher James Hillery: Computer-based composition.
Please contact through my website, www.lambda.nu/music/ | Jeffrey Hoover |
| Nick Hwang | Mark Eliot Jacobs, DMus: Composer and trombonist. Instructor at Southern Oregon University in Low Brass. Interest in early music including sackbut, serpent, ophicleide, lute. | Ryan Jesperson |
Christopher Jette: Experimenting to explore the sound world around us, collaborting with artists of various media.
| Darren Jones | Ying-Chen Kao: Her composition ¡§Toccata for Viola and Piano¡¨ was premiered in the Emerging Young Composer Contest at the Festival Miami. It was described as a ¡§challenging and rich work¡¨ in the Coral Gables Gazette. Her composition ¡§530.623¡¨ (Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Viola) won the 2005 Peabody Camerarta Composer Contest. In 2005 August, ¡§530.623¡¨ won the ERMmedia ¡§Masterworks of the New Era¡¨ competition. Recently, she finished, ¡§Cloud Burst¡¨ (Cello and Piano), commissioned by cellist Michael Kannen, head of Peabody¡¦s chamber music department, and founding member of the Brentano String Quartet. In 2006 Ying ¡VChen received an Encore Grant from the American Composers Forum for her piece ¡§Haunted by an Angel,¡¨ which was written for the Nietzsche Ensemble. |
| Bill Kelley | Stephen Kemp | Daniel Kessner |
| Dr. Mikhail N. Khaladjan, Jr. | Geoffrey Kidde | Anne C. Kilstofte, Ph.D.: I teach composition, piano and music in world cultures at Hamline University. I write concert music in all genres, orchestral, chamber, choral, instrumental, vocal, opera, and electronic. I'd like to get a feel for the organization to see how I can help. At this time I am president-elect of the International Alliance for Women in Music and very active with the American Composers Forum so I volunteer quite a bit. |
| Corliss Kimmel: Member of Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, Anchorage Opera Orchestra and play for other musical organizations in the Anchorage area. I enjoy all types of music, from classical to jazz to hip hop. | Geoff J Knorr: Currently a MM Composition and BM Recording Arts and Sciences student at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Also an active cellist who performs with singer/songwriters in the Baltimore area. | Gary Knudson |
| Lori Laitman | George Lam | Ms. Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, DMA |
| David S. Lefkowitz | Craig Robert Levesque | Stephen Lias |
C. Kelly Lohr: Composer of instrumental and vocal scores for small and large orchestra for musicals, film and video, and listening pleasure. Major works include, Australia! -The Musical and Antarctica! - The Musical.
| Monica Lynn: University of California - Santa Cruz, DMA Candidate - Composition/World Music
| Robinson McClellan: Robinson McClellan has drawn increasing attention from audiences and performers for his direct, expressive style and his richly evocative choral music. Recent commissions from Yale Schola Cantorum, NYC-based trio Eos, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Christ Church (New Haven), and organist Carson Cooman have brought his music to a growing audience in the U.S. and Europe.
His music covers a broad spectrum of styles, from chamber vocal music, experimental chamber music and orchestral compositions to choral church anthems. His work focuses on vocal music of all kinds, and he seeks new ways to approach traditional sacred musical forms and subject matter. He is currently studying composition at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. |
Robert McClure: Percussionist and composer. Pursuing Graduate Degree in composition at University of Arizona studying with Dan Asia.
| Stan McDaniel | Mike McFerron |
| Ken Metz: composition, theory, associate professor of music at UIW whatever | Michael Joseph Millett | Joseph R Miserendino: Composer of light classical music for a variety of genre - primarily brass and winds (some string). Works run the gamut from large brass band works rto solos including unaccompanied Contrabass. |
| John Mitchell | Andrea Mitternight | Michael John Mollo: I am a composer based in Cincinnati, OH. I compose in many genres including classical, crossover rock, jazz and film organizing new chapters. organizing events / performance festivals |
| Russell Nadel | Mary Lou Newmark | Maria A. Niederberger |
| Dr. Dimitar Ninov | Dr. Gary L. Noland, Ph.D.: I am a full-time free-lance composer. I founded the Seventh Species composers concert series in San Francisco in 1990. Since that time I have organized over fifty concerts in the Bay Area and in different parts of Oregon I have been meeting with a group of composers in Portland, Oregon and there has been some discussion of forming a chapter. However, we would like to get more information on what would be required to do so. | Dr. Douglas M. O'Grady |
| Ms. Sunnie R. Oh: piano performance, piano pedagogy, composition Texas chapter | Robert Paterson | Jeannie Gayle Pool |
| Dr. Deon Nielsen Price | William Price | Lisa Renee Ragsdale |
| Mr. Felipe Jose Ramirez: I perform piano regularly in US, South Asia, Latinoamerica and Europe. I also like to perform new works and I like to compose. Fundraises and concerts. | Janice Elaine Rathmann: composing, playing percussion and piano | Dr. H. Owen Reed, BM, BA, |
| Dr. Sally Reid | Andrew Rindfleisch | Mr. Stephen Gilbert Rivera: I provides Music and Sound Design for the entertainment, film, television, radio and video game industries, as well as private projects where original music or sound effects are necessary. ASCAP and Taxi member. Will be happy to review music :-) |
| Charles Paul Robertson: Composer of concert band and jazz band some string and full orchestra. | Robert M Rocco: Composer, Music Technology pioneer, Professor of Music and Author | BJ Rosco |
| Walter Ross | David Rubinstein: ShadowHillsMusic.com is the publishing website for my audience-friendly contemporary classical music. Includes PDF and RealAudio files. My piano pieces have recently been performed by Blair McMillen (New York) and Thorsten Kühn (Germany). One-Note Concerto for piano and orchestra premiered by Hartford Symphony Orchestra (2006).
| Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Freelance composer |
Dr. Godwin Sadoh, D.M.A.: B.A., M.A., M.M., D.M.A.
Professor of Music, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama. | Jeremy David Sagala: B.M., M.M., M.A., Ph.D. expected
Please have a look at my website for scores and audio!
www.jeremysagala.com | Vernon J. Sandoz III, M.Mus.: jazz composer |
| David P. Sartor | Matt Schaffner | Nico S Schuler: research on modern music; computer-applications in music; methodology of music research establish Texas chapter (together with Dr. Wieslaw V. Rentowski) |
| Elliott Schwartz | Alex Shapiro | Peter Sheridan |
| Scott A. Shoemaker: Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, I am a composer of concert music with a high-modern outlook. Other interests include post-tonal theory and conducting. | Max M Simoncic: As a founding member of California Composer's Consortium (CCC) we premiere works from new and established composers throughout the United States and encourage collaboration and reciprocation from guest artists. We welcome your inquiries. | Mark L. Snyder |
| Gerald E Sparrow: I write in a mixture of styles with some interest in the modern style. I particularly like string ensembles and other small chamber groupings. | Mr. David A Stadig: My tastes are eclectic.I like to write and produce music in a varity of genres. My principal instument is guitar and I have a great interest in MIDI and recording. I have a BM in Composition from Berklee College of Music and am currently engaged in graduate study. I am a lifelong musician and a lifelong learner. I am willing to enhance people's awareness of good music any way that I can. | Greg A Steinke, Ph.D |
| Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn | Paul M. Stouffer | Ken Takara |
| Vernon Taranto, Jr. | Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate: Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate was born in 1968 in Norman, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Mr. Tate is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition, and a recent review by The Washington Post states that “Tate’s connection to nature and the human experience was quite apparent in this piece...rarer still is his ability to effectively infuse classical music with American Indian nationalism.” This review was a response to a performance of Iholba’ (The Vision), for Solo Flute, Orchestra and Chorus, which was commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Iholba' and Tracing Mississippi, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, were recorded in 2007 by the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus and are currently available on Thunderbird Records.
In 2006, Mr. Tate was the recipient of the Joyce Award which supported the commission of Nitoshi’ Imali, Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, which premiered in 2007 with soloist Jason Vieaux and the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, conducted by Cary John Franklin. His new work for orchestra and children’s chorus, commissioned by the American Composers Forum Continental Harmony Project, celebrates the opening of the new Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma. In 2008, he was appointed as Cultural Ambassador for the State of Oklahoma.
Mr. Tate received his BM in Piano Performance from Northwestern University where he studied with Dr. Donald J. Isaak. He then completed his MM in Piano Performance and Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Elizabeth Pastor and Dr. Donald Erb. Shortly after beginning his piano studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Jerod’s first composition, Winter Moons ballet score, was commissioned by Dr. Patricia Tate and premiered at the University of Wyoming in 1992. Colorado Ballet subsequently performed it in 1994 and 1996.
Since then, Tate has received numerous commissions and his works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colorado Ballet, The New Mexico Symphony, the Contemporary Music Forum, Dale Warland Singers, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society and the Oklahoma City University Wind Philharmonic, to name a few.
Mr. Tate is Artistic Director for the Chickasaw Chamber Music Festival. He is Composer-in-Residence for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy and was Composer-in-Residence for the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composer Apprentice Project in 2004 and 2005. In 2007, he was Composer-in-Residence for The Joyce Foundation/American Composers Forum, teaching composition to American Indian high school students in Minneapolis. Mr. Tate received the 2006 Alumni Achievement Award from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has also received awards from Meet the Composer and the Percussive Arts Society. He is happily married to Ursula Running Bear, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota).
Mr. Tate’s middle name, Impichchaachaaha’, means “high corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw house name. A corncrib is a small hut used for the storage of corn and other vegetables. In traditional Chickasaw culture, the corncrib was built high off of the ground on stilts to keep its contents safe from foraging animals.
| Bruce J. Taub |
Prof. Michael Sidney Timpson, DMA: Assistant Professor of Music Composition
University of South Florida | Joseph Trapanese: Performed by two Grammy-winning artists and awarded by ASCAP, the American Music Center, Yale University, UCLA, the Henry Mancini Institute and Downbeat Magazine, Joseph's music has been heard in productions at NYU and UCLA, on NPR, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and CBS's popular daytime soap opera The Guiding Light as well as several off-broadway productions in New York City. Film work includes numerous shorts and additional music for the independent features Necessary Evil and The Last Word. As an arranger and music programmer he has worked on the Fox sitcom The Loop, the ABC reality series American Inventor, and Disney’s Jump In!
Winner of the first Jerry Goldsmith Award in 2007, Joseph completed his B.M. in Music Composition at the Manhattan School of Music and now lives in Los Angeles.
| Dr Stephen Truelove, DMA: I currently teach composition at Southern Oregon University, and am active as a composer, private teacher, and pianist.
Publications & Writings: “Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstuck XI: An Analysis of its Composition via a Matrix System of Serial Polyphony and the Translation of Rhythm into Pitch”, University Microfilms International, 1984. An article on the same subject was published in Vol. 36 #1 of Perspectives of New Music (Winter 1998). Essays, Commentary and Quotes in Quest of Evolutionary Aesthetics and Transformative Practices Regarding Artistic Creaton.
Compositions: Many solo piano scores; duo piano; orchestra; songs and song cycles; choral music; chamber music: various ensembles with 1 and 2 pianos, for strings, for brass quintet, for speaker and piano; solo instruments: flute, clarinet, cello, violin, viola, horn, saxophone, guitar, banjo, harpsichord, vibraphone; electronic media: synthesizer, computer, software; improvisational scores; recorded improvisations; music for ballet, film, theater, and a mixed media chamber opera, Flowers and Butterflies.
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| Mr. Richard Barry Ulrich: Retired High School Instrument Music teacher. Now composing and arranging. Play flute, oboe, sax. Webmaster, Southern Oregon Chapter. | Kevin Ure, M.M.: University trained contemporary composer, currently attending The University of Arizona completing a Masters Degree. Compositions are available in a variety of ensembles and information is available from website - uremusic.com. | Dale E. Victorine |
| Peter Michael von der Nahmer | Fu-Tsun Wang | Hsiao-Lan Wang |
| Anthony J. Wardzinski | Stefan Weisman | Benjamin Williams |
| Dawn K. Williams | Michael Glenn Williams | Mickie D. Willis |
| John Winsor: My writing resembles that of the neoclassicists. I use fairly constant meters and literal repetition of significant patterns. VMTA awards - 1992, 1994, 2004; Delius awards - 1992, 1995; Modern Music Festival 2000 film scoring prize; ForeWord Magazine Bronze Medal 2003; iUniverse Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice awards; ASCAP Plus awards; grants from Meet the Composer and the American Music Center. Member, Hardwick Chamber Ensemble (www.music-usa.org/hardwick). There are MP3 and MIDI audio samples on my web site's "Audio Samples" page. | Austin Wintory: I am a composer for film, concerts, digital media and computer games. I believe that we, as composers, are given the responsibility to not turn our back on the past, nor deny the arrival of the future. The public wanes more and more and its up to us to prove that the concert hall is not for sleeping! | Mr. John Allen Worthey |
Mark Alan Zuckerman: I enjoy writing music for all kinds of ensembles for levels from amateur to virtuoso.
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