Marjorie Merryman

Marjorie Merryman (* 1951 ) is an American composer and music teacher.

The Brandeis University graduate studied composition with Seymour Shifrin , Martin Boykan , Betsy Jolas and Gail Kubik . From 1979 she taught at the School of Arts at Boston University , later at Harvard University , at MIT at the New England Conservatory and at Macalester College . Since 2007 she has been a member of the composition faculty and vice president of the Manhattan School of Music . In 1996 she published a handbook of music theory.

Merryman composed orchestral and chamber music, vocal music as well as an opera and two oratorios. She has received composition commissions from the New England Philharmonic Orchestra , the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra , the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of the American Guild of Organists , the Pappoutsakis Foundation and the 20th Century Consort, among others . She participated in the Meet the Composers program of the National Endowment for the Arts , was composer in residence of the New England Philharmonic Orchestra and the Billings Symphony Orchestra , was a board member of the New England Composers Orchestra , the Lily Boulanger Foundation and the New Music Ensemble Alea III and received the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lee Ettelson Award from the WBZ Fund for the Arts and Composers .

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SURNAME	Merryman, Marjorie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	1951