Amy Scurria

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Amy Scurria (born September 24, 1973 ) is an American composer.

Scurria had piano lessons from the age of eleven and also began to compose at this time. In 1991 she was the winner of the Northern Virginia Composition Competition . She studied composition at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston , at the Peabody Conservatory of Music with Chen Yi and Robert Sirota, and at Duke University with Anthony Kelley and Stephen Jaffe . She also took lessons from Samuel Adler , Philip Lasser and Narcis Bonet at the Schola Cantorum in Paris in 1999 and was a participant in the summer composition program at Westminster Choir College .

Her compositions were performed at the Aspen Music Festival in 1994 and at the National Woman in Arts Conference in 1995 . She has received commissions from orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Minnesota Orchestra , the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra , the Vermont Youth Orchestra and the LongLeaf Opera Company, and choirs such as Youth Pro Musica , the Shepherd College Concert Choir and the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Choir . With the conductor Sara Jobin , the author Carol Gilligan and their son Jonathan Gilligan she is working on the opera Pearl based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter .

Works

  • A Winter of Flowers for mezzo-soprano and piano, 1994
  • Variations of Reflection for piano, 1994
  • Games Children Play for piano and speaker, 1995
  • Impromptu for high voice and piano, 1996
  • Rains Alive for high voice and piano, 1996
  • Beyond All Walking for orchestra, 1997
  • Five Haiku for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble, 1998
  • Salmo 100 for mixed choir a cappella, 1999
  • Advent for soprano and piano, 2000
  • Press Onward for mixed choir a cappella, 2001
  • Hagar's Prayer for soprano, trumpet and piano, 2001
  • Blossoms for female choir a cappella, 2001
  • Thou Who Art Over Us for mixed choir and organ, 2002
  • Blessings of Liberty for orchestra, 2002
  • What is the beginning? for female choir and piano, 2002
  • In His High Service for mixed choir and organ, 2003
  • We Are Met at Gettysburg for orchestra and children's choir, 2003
  • i thank you God for most this amazing for mixed choir and organ, 2005
  • Adaptations for piano, 2007
  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue for piano, 2008
  • Tiamat for two trombones and tuba or trombone, euphonium and tuba, 2008
  • La Loba for orchestra, 2008
  • Esperanza Rising for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, violin, cello and piano, 2009
  • What the Soul Remembers for orchestra, 2009

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