Composer of the Month September 2020: Stacy Garrop

Stacy GarropDr. Stacy Garrop is an award-winning, nationally recognized freelance composer and lecturer whose music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. Her catalog covers a wide range of genres, with works for orchestra, opera, oratorio, wind ensemble, choir, art song, and various sized chamber ensembles including string quartet, piano trio, and saxophones. She has received the Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Barlow Prize, Fromm Music Foundation grant, and three Barlow Endowment commissions, and has been commissioned by Chanticleer, Chicago 'a cappella,' The Crossing, Kronos Quartet, the Albany, Detroit, Minnesota, and St. Louis Symphonies, and the Grant Park Music Festival and Cabrillo Festival Orchestras. Theodore Presser Company publishes her chamber and orchestral works; she self-publishes her choral pieces under Inkjar Publishing Company. Her music has been recorded by Cedille Records on ten CDs, with works commercially available on ten additional labels. She was the inaugural Emerging Opera Composer for Chicago Opera Theater's Vanguard Initiative (2018-2020), and served as Composer-in-Residence with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, funded by New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras (2016-2019).

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Listen to 'My Dearest Ruth' for Soprano and Piano:

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