David Conte

David Conte (1955-) is an American composer. He has been a Professor of Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1985, and Composer-in-Residence with Thick Description since 1990.

Conte earned a BM from Bowling Green State University and a MFA and DMA from Cornell University, where he studied with Karel Husa and Steven Stucky. Conte studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship, and in 1982 worked with Aaron Copland while preparing a study of Copland's manuscript sketches. Conte received a Conducting Fellowship at Aspen Music Festival, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship. He has served on the faculties of Cornell University, Colgate University, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. While at Cornell, he served as both the assistant director and acting director of the Cornell University Glee Club, for whom he composed numerous works.

Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony, and has composed songs for Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, and Phyllis Bryn-Julson. He works list includes three operas, works for orchestra, and numerous pieces for solo organ, chorus and organ, solo voice and organ, and chorus and orchestra. Conte's music is published exclusively by E. C. Schirmer and his music is represented on numerous commercial CD recordings.

Choral Works

• Cantate Domino (SATB 1975)
• Canticle (From Three Sacred Pieces - TTBB 1982; SATB 1984)
• The Waking (SATB 1985)
• Invocation and Dance (TTBB 1986; SATB 1989)
• Ave Maria (SATB 1991)
• In Praise of Music (SSA 1991; SATB 1994)
• Charm me asleep (SATB 1993)
• Elegy for Matthew (TTBB 1999: SATB 2000)
• A Hope Carol (SSAA 2006)
• The Nine Muses (ACDA Brock commission; SATB 2007)
• An Exhortation (Premiered at the Presidential Inauguration of President Barack Obama; TTBB, SSAA, SATB 2009)
• Omittamus Studia
• Valediction
• Hosana

Operas

• Gift of the Magi
• The Dreamers
• Firebird Motel
• America Tropical

Sources

• A Study of David Conte's Secular SATB Choral Works with Non-Orchestral Score Complement by Dr. Michael Artemus Conran(Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona, 2003)
• An Analysis of Selected Choral Works of David Conte Utilizing Ensemble Accompaniment by Dr. Marlen Dee Wilkins (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Northern Colorado, 2011)
• Collegiate Faculty profile San Francisco Conservatory of Music
• David Conte - Composer Biography on Famous The Opera website
• Rosenberg, Donald (October 26, 2009). "Cleveland-born composer David Conte creates choral work for venerable Shaker Heights church". cleveland.com. Cleveland Live, Inc.. http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2009/10/cleveland-born_composer_david.html. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
• Peña, Susan L. (November 12 1999). "World premiers highlight Choral Society season". Reading Eagle. http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=u5A0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=VqMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5854,7116270. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
• Drake, Jessica (November 21, 2003). "Feast for the senses". TimesDaily.com. http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031121/NEWS/311210304/1004. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
• anon (14 January 2009). "US Presidential Inauguration Jan. 20 to Feature Two Grammy-Winning San Francisco Choruses". redOrbit.com. http://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1623372/us_presidential_inauguration_jan_20_to_feature_two_grammywinning_san/. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 

External links

• Official web site

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