A Christmas Garland - Chamber - Conrad Susa

No. 4365A|Susa|A Christmas Garland|Full Score

CONRAD SUSA

A Christmas Garland for SATB Chorus and Chamber Orchestra

Conrad Susa (b. 193 5)

Conrad Susa was composer-in-residence with the Old Globe Theater in San Diego and served as dramaturge for the O'Neill Center in Connecticut. He has produced many scores for documentary films and PBS television productions, choral and instrumental works and operas including "Transforma­ tions," "Black River" and "The Love of Don Perlimplin."

Susa has received commissions from the Minnesota Opera Company, San Francisco Opera and the Pepsico Summer Fare.

He composed a church opera, "The Wise Women," for the American Guild of Organists and the opera "The Dangerous Liaisons" for the San Francisco Opera. His operas have been performed by the English National Opera, the Washington Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the Netherlands Opera, the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Minnesota Opera, and many schools and Universities. His choral music is widely performed in the United States and abroad. Susa has served as staff pianist with the Pittsburgh Symphony and as assistant editor of Musical America Magazine. He is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he teaches composition, orchestration and counterpoint. Susa also teaches in its adult extension program where he lectures on various aspects of opera. In addition, he is chair of the com­ position department. Susa has won many awards including Ford Foundation Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts grants and a National Endowment Consortium grant.

He earned his B.F.A. from Carnegie Institute of Technology where he studied composition with Nickolai Lopatnikoff.

Susa studied piano privatelywithNatalie Barnett Phillips. He received hisM.S. from TheJuilliard School where he studied with William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti and P. D. Q. Bach.

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