Amy Scurria
{{short description|American composer (born 1973)}}
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Amy Scurria (born September 24, 1973) is an American composer.
Biography
Amy Scurria was born into a military family and showed an early interest in music, memorizing the piano assignments of her sister Jackie. At age 11 she took lessons under the Suzuki method and began composing.{{cite web |url=http://www.violinstudent.com/history/september/september24.html |title=Today in Music History |access-date=November 9, 2010}} Scurria graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in composition. In 1998, she received a master's degree in composition from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her doctoral degree in 2015 from Duke University in Durham.{{cite web |url=http://www.amyscurria.com/#!biography/c1enr|title=Biography|access-date=6 February 2016}} Dr. Scurria has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France.
Teachers she studied with include: Chen Yi, Robert Sirota, Narcis Bonet, Anthony Kelley, and Stephen Jaffe. Her compositions have been performed in the United States, England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, France, and Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.amyscurria.com/bio.html |title=Biography |access-date=November 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707134913/http://www.amyscurria.com/bio.html |archive-date=July 7, 2011 }} She was a composer-in-residence at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 2001.{{cite book |title=A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900 |author=Dees, Pamela Youngdahl |year=2004}}
Personal life
Honors and awards
- Duke University Evan Frankel Fellowship Recipient
- Duke University Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Award
- Duke University Summer Research Fellowship Recipient
- 1991 Northern Virginia Composition Competition
- 1998 Haddonfeld Young Composers' Competition
- ASCAP Award Recipient, 1999–present
- Winner of Haddonfield Young Composers Competition for Beyond All Walking, 1998
- Music highlighted at National Convention for Women in the Arts, Rice University, 1996
- Winner of N. VA Composition Competition, 1990
- Superior rating in National and State Piano Guild, 1988–91{{cite web|url=http://www.amyscurria.com/cv.htm |title=Amy Scurria, Composer |access-date=November 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110191306/http://www.amyscurria.com/cv.htm |archive-date=November 10, 2013 }}
Works
Selected works include:
- Beyond All Walking for Full Orchestra, (1998)
- A Prayer for SATB Choir, (1999)
- And He Shall Be Like a Tree for SATB Choir and Organ/Piano, (2000)
- We Are Met at Gettysburg for full orchestra (2003) with Steve Heitzeg
- Adaptations (2007)
- La Loba (2008)
- Tiamat (2008)
- Something Borrowed, Something Blue (2008)
- What the Soul Remembers (2009)
- Esperanza Rising (2009){{cite web |title=Amy C. Scurria, Composition |url=http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Music/grad/amy.scurria |access-date=November 9, 2010}}
- Pearl: An Opera in Two Acts (2015){{cite web |url=http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/9932/Scurria_duke_0066D_12905.pdf?sequence=1|title=Pearl: An Opera in Two Acts|access-date=6 February 2016}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.amyscurria.com/ Amy Scurria's Official Website]
- [http://www.presser.com/composer/scurria-amy/ Amy Scurria's page at Theodore Presser Company]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ2fZUhd3KM&list=PLz3cjYjNBwZJIMCQW1w8WpZ4GjqJQB4gj Amy Scurria's Wilson's Aria 2 from YouTube]
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