Stacy Garrop, composition
The Music Conservatory Faculty
Doctor of Music, Indiana University, 2000
Master of Arts, The University of Chicago, 1995
Bachelor of Music, University of Michigan, 1992
Stacy Garrop has received several awards and grants including the 2006/2007 Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s 2006/2007 Harvey Gaul Composition Competition, the 2005 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, 2005 and 2001 Barlow Endowment commissions, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 1999-2000 First Hearing Composition Competition, Omaha Symphony Guild’s 2000 International New Music Competition, and the New England Philharmonic’s 2000 Call for Scores Competition. She was selected to participate in reading session programs sponsored by the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Dale Warland Singers. She received a 2002 Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council and was a finalist for the 2001 Rome Prize.
Dr. Garrop was composer-in-residence of Chicago’s Music in the Loft chamber music series in 2004/05 and 2006/07. The Loft commissioned her String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels for the Biava Quartet who premiered the piece at Yale University in 2005, followed by its Chicago premiere in 2006. The Biava recently recorded the piece for Cedille Records, which will receive its commercial release in the fall of 2007.
Her works have been performed by the ensembles Ambassador Duo, Artaria String Quartet, Callisto Ensemble, EARPLAY, Empyrean Ensemble, Enso Quartet, Helikon Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Lincoln Trio, New EAR, Orion Ensemble, Seattle New Music Ensemble, Society for New Music, and Third Angle; by Chicago A Cappella, Murray State University Concert Choir, Peninsula Women's Chorus, Princeton Singers, Volti, and Vox Caelestis; and by the Amarillo Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Youth Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, and the Women’s Philharmonic. Her works have been choreographed by the a-ha! Dance Theatre of Kansas City, and conducted by Martín Benvenuto, Cliff Colnot, Karen Lynne Deal, Apo Hsu, Paul Hostetter, Donald Portnoy, Jeffrey Renshaw, Steven Sametz, James Setapen, Stephen Squires, and Victor Yampolsky,
She has attended residences at the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Oxford Summer Institute, Ragdale Foundation, Round Top Music Festival, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Yaddo. Theodore Presser Company and Hildegard Publishing Company publish several of her works.
Dr. Garrop is an Associate Professor in Composition at the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University. She was guest composer and speaker at the Texas Association for Symphony Orchestras conference in Amarillo, Texas in 2004. She has guest lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Missouri at Kansas City, University of Connecticut at Storrs, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of South Carolina at Columbia, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Amarillo College, and West Texas A&M University.
For further information, please visit Garrop’s website at www.garrop.com.
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