David Conte

David Conte
David Conte American Opera Composer

David Conte (born 1955) is an American composer who has written over 150 works published by E.C. Schirmer (a division of ECS Publishing), including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guitar, and harp.[1] Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Harvard University Chorus, the Men’s Glee Clubs of Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, GALA Choruses from the cities of San Francisco, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., the Dayton Philharmonic, the Oakland Symphony, the Stockton Symphony, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra, the American Guild of Organists (2004, 2009, 2014, 2015), Sonoma City Opera, and the Gerbode Foundation (for his opera America Tropical).[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] He was honored with the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Brock Commission in 2007 for his work The Nine Muses, and in 2016 he won the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Art Song Composition Award for his work American Death Ballads.[16][17]

  1. ^ "David Conte". ECS Publishing. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  2. ^ "Chanticleer's spring 2009 tours include China debut". Chanticleer. 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  3. ^ "Carmina Juventutis by David Conte". Empire City Men's Chorus. 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
  4. ^ "Festival History". GALA Choruses. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  5. ^ "FY01 Creativity". League of American Orchestras. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  6. ^ "Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco, Susan McMane, Director". San Francisco Symphony. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  7. ^ "Premieres Spearheaded by Peter Jaffe and the Stockton Symphony". Peter Jaffe Conductor. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  8. ^ "AGO New Music Commissions". American Guild of Organists. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  9. ^ "Atlantic Classical Orchestra Presents Romantic Spirit, David Conte, Composer, Marina Lenau, Violin". The Lyric Theatre. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  10. ^ "Sonoma Opera Commissions Piece". SFGate. 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  11. ^ "Special Awards in the Arts". Gerbode Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  12. ^ Schwartz, Stephen (2012-11-10). "Getting to Know David Conte: A Q&A with the ACF board member and composer". American Composers Forum. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  13. ^ "A Bell". ECS Publishing Group. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
  14. ^ "Give Us Music". ECS Publishing. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  15. ^ "WW1 Centenary Concert Program" (PDF). Harvard University – The Memorial Church. 2018-11-11. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  16. ^ "Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission". American Choral Directors Association. 23 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  17. ^ "NATS Art Song Composition Award". National Association of Teachers of Singing. Retrieved 2020-12-29.