CREATORS
Brilliance Student Composers Among Winners Student composer Nina Worsley ’26 also sings with Moravian’s Big Band.
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alking music with Nina Worsley ’25 and Calvin Deifer ’26 opens up a world filled with commitment, dreams, discipline, and beauty. Both music composition majors, they each have pieces that premiered on October 29, 2024, at the New Chamber Music Concert, part of a series produced by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra. Since inaugurating the competition in 2020, the symphony has received nearly 400 submissions from composers living around the world. Worsley and Deifer are in very good company. Worsley, who grew up in a musical family, laughs as she notes that iPads and iPhones weren’t quite as ubiquitous back then as
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Music majors don’t choose to be music majors. It’s a calling . . . like from God? Something personal inside you? For me, I need to do it—it’s almost like a drug.” —Calvin Deifer ’26
10 MORAVIAN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE
SUMMER 2025
PHOTOS BY NICK CHISMAR ’20