Amy Scurria

Amy Scurria (* September 24, 1973 ) is an American composer.

Scurria had from the age of eleven and began piano lessons at this time also to compose. In 1991 she was the winner of the Northern Virginia Composition Competition. She studied composition at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, at the Peabody Conservatory of Music with Chen Yi and Robert Sirota and at Duke University with Anthony Kelley and Stephen Jaffe. She also competed in 1999 at the Schola Cantorum in Paris lessons with Samuel Adler, Philip Lasser and Narcis Bonet and was a participant of summer composition program of the Westminster Choir College.

Her compositions have been in 1994 at the Aspen Music Festival and 1995 listed in the National Conference Woman in Arts. She has received commissions from orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vermont Youth Orchestra and the Longleaf Opera Company and choruses such as Youth Pro Musica, the Shepherd College Concert Choir and the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church Choir. With the conductor Sara Jobin, author Carol Gilligan and her son Jonathan Gilligan, she works at the Opera Pearl by Nathaniel Hawthorne 's novel The Scarlet Letter.

Works

  • A winter of Flowers for mezzo- soprano and piano, 1994
  • Variations of Reflection for piano, 1994
  • Games Children Play for Piano and Speaker, 1995
  • Impromptu for high voice and piano, 1996
  • Rains Alive for high voice and piano, 1996
  • Beyond All Walking for orchestra, 1997
  • Five Haiku for soprano, baritone and chamber ensemble, 1998
  • Salmo 100 for mixed chorus a cappella, 1999
  • Advent for soprano and piano, 2000
  • Press Onward for mixed chorus a cappella, 2001
  • Hagar 's Prayer for soprano, trumpet and piano, 2001
  • Blossoms for Women's Choir a cappella, 2001
  • Thou Who Art Over Us for mixed choir and organ, 2002
  • Blessings of Liberty For orchestra, 2002
  • What is the Beginning? for female chorus and piano, 2002
  • In His high service for mixed choir and organ, 2003
  • We Are Met at Gettysburg for orchestra and children's choir, 2003
  • I thank you God for most this amazing for mixed choir and organ, 2005
  • Adaptations for piano, 2007
  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue for piano, 2008
  • Tiamat for two trombones and tuba or trombone, euphonium and tuba, 2008
  • La Loba for orchestra, 2008
  • Esperanza Rising for soprano, mezzo- soprano, tenor, violin, cello and piano, 2009
  • What the Soul Remembers for orchestra, 2009
Chen Yi (general) Schola Cantorum de Paris Samuel Adler (composer)
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