Stacy Garrop's music is centered on direct and dramatic narrative. The sharing of stories is a defining element of our humanity; we strive to share with others the experiences and concepts that we find compelling. In Stacy's works, this manifests programmatically in pieces without text (sometimes subtly, sometimes overtly) and more directly in pieces that draw upon poets and writers for source material.
Dr. Garrop has received numerous awards and grants including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's Harvey Gaul Composition Competition, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, two Barlow Endowment commissions, Chicago Symphony Orchestra's First Hearing Composition Competition, Omaha Symphony Guild's International New Music Competition, San Francisco Song Festival's Phyllis C. Wattis Prize for Song Competition, and the New England Philharmonic's Call for Scores Competition. She has participated in reading session programs given by the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra (the Composers Institute), and the Dale Warland Singers.
Theodore Presser Company publishes her chamber and orchestral works. Cedille Records, Innova, Equillibrium, Chicago a cappella Records, and Ravello Records have recorded her music on twelve CDs. Of particular note, Cedille Records released in February 2011 the first all-Garrop CD that includes String Quartet No. 3: GAIA, Silver Dagger, and In Eleanor's Words.
Dr. Garrop was in residence with the Skaneateles Festival and the Volti Choral Institute for High School Singers in 2011, Albany Symphony Orchestra in 2009/10, and Chicago's Music in the Loft chamber music series in 2004/05 and 2006/07. She has attended residences at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Oxford Summer Institute, Ragdale Colony, Round Top Music Festival, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Yaddo Colony.
Her orchestra works have been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Amarillo Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Erato Chamber Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Youth Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, and the Women's Philharmonic; her string quartets by the Cecilia, Chiara, Biava, Enso, and Artaria String Quartets; her chamber ensemble works by the Ambassador Duo, Anaphora Ensemble, Callisto Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, EARPLAY, Empyrean Ensemble, Helikon Ensemble, Indiana University's New Music Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Lincoln Trio, New EAR, Orion Ensemble, Pilgrim Chamber Players, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Seattle New Music Ensemble, Society for New Music, Third Angle, mezzo-sopranos Buffy Baggott and Julia Bentley, and pianists Amy Briggs, Winston Choi, and Kuang-Hao Huang; and her choir works by Chicago A Cappella, C4, Grant Park Chorus, musica intima, Peninsula Women's Chorus, Princeton Singers, Santa Cruz Chamber Singers, University of Michigan Chamber Choir, and Volti. Her works have been choreographed by the a-ha! Dance Theatre of Kansas City, and she has worked with numerous conductors including MartÃn Benvenuto, Christopher Bell, Jerry Blackstone, Cliff Colnot, Karen Lynne Deal, Robert Geary, Apo Hsu, Paul Hostetter, Carlos Kalmar, Jonathan McPhee, David Alan Miller, Peter Oundjian, Donald Portnoy, Jeffrey Renshaw, Steven Sametz, James Setapen, Stephen Squires, and Victor Yampolsky.
She is Head of Composition and Associate Professor of Composition at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. (from garrop.com)
Stacy Garrop
Biography
Stacy Garrop's music is centered on direct and dramatic narrative. The sharing of stories is a defining element of our humanity; we strive to share with others the experiences and concepts that we find compelling. In Stacy's works, this manifests programmatically in pieces without text (sometimes subtly, sometimes overtly) and more directly in pieces that draw upon poets and writers for source material.
Dr. Garrop has received numerous awards and grants including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble's Harvey Gaul Composition Competition, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, two Barlow Endowment commissions, Chicago Symphony Orchestra's First Hearing Composition Competition, Omaha Symphony Guild's International New Music Competition, San Francisco Song Festival's Phyllis C. Wattis Prize for Song Competition, and the New England Philharmonic's Call for Scores Competition. She has participated in reading session programs given by the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra (the Composers Institute), and the Dale Warland Singers.
Theodore Presser Company publishes her chamber and orchestral works. Cedille Records, Innova, Equillibrium, Chicago a cappella Records, and Ravello Records have recorded her music on twelve CDs. Of particular note, Cedille Records released in February 2011 the first all-Garrop CD that includes String Quartet No. 3: GAIA, Silver Dagger, and In Eleanor's Words.
Dr. Garrop was in residence with the Skaneateles Festival and the Volti Choral Institute for High School Singers in 2011, Albany Symphony Orchestra in 2009/10, and Chicago's Music in the Loft chamber music series in 2004/05 and 2006/07. She has attended residences at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Oxford Summer Institute, Ragdale Colony, Round Top Music Festival, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Yaddo Colony.
Her orchestra works have been performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Amarillo Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Erato Chamber Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Youth Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, and the Women's Philharmonic; her string quartets by the Cecilia, Chiara, Biava, Enso, and Artaria String Quartets; her chamber ensemble works by the Ambassador Duo, Anaphora Ensemble, Callisto Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, EARPLAY, Empyrean Ensemble, Helikon Ensemble, Indiana University's New Music Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Lincoln Trio, New EAR, Orion Ensemble, Pilgrim Chamber Players, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Seattle New Music Ensemble, Society for New Music, Third Angle, mezzo-sopranos Buffy Baggott and Julia Bentley, and pianists Amy Briggs, Winston Choi, and Kuang-Hao Huang; and her choir works by Chicago A Cappella, C4, Grant Park Chorus, musica intima, Peninsula Women's Chorus, Princeton Singers, Santa Cruz Chamber Singers, University of Michigan Chamber Choir, and Volti. Her works have been choreographed by the a-ha! Dance Theatre of Kansas City, and she has worked with numerous conductors including MartÃn Benvenuto, Christopher Bell, Jerry Blackstone, Cliff Colnot, Karen Lynne Deal, Robert Geary, Apo Hsu, Paul Hostetter, Carlos Kalmar, Jonathan McPhee, David Alan Miller, Peter Oundjian, Donald Portnoy, Jeffrey Renshaw, Steven Sametz, James Setapen, Stephen Squires, and Victor Yampolsky.
She is Head of Composition and Associate Professor of Composition at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
(from garrop.com)