Bruce Saylor

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Composer Bruce Saylor was born in Philadelphia, PA. He studied composition at the Juilliard School in New York City from 1964 to 1969 where he was a student of Hugo Weisgall and Roger Sessions. A Fulbright Fellowship sent him to study with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1969 to 1970. That year he entered the City University of New York Graduate Center where he studied composition with Weisgall, theory with George Perle, and analysis with Felix Salzer. He received his Ph.D. in 1978. Among Saylor's many fellowships, grants and prizes are awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome, Guggenheim, Mellon, and Ingram Merrill, and Lawrence Kinsloe Madison Foundations, the National Prize for Composition from the National Society of Arts and Letter, the Music Award and also the Charles E. Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, numerous scholarships and prizes from Juilliard, and the Fulbright. He has composed five operas, among them "Orpheus Descending"--after Tennessee Williams with the libretto by J. D. McClatchy--for Lyric Opera of Chicago where he was composer-in-residence, and "The Image Maker"--a setting of the iconic James Merrill play. He has collaborated with Nine Circles Chamber Theatre, Jonathan Levi and Gil Morgenstern co-directors, in creating five theatrical productions performed in the US and in Europe. Saylor's orchestral music has been commissioned and per

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Paraclete Press Summer 2002 Choral Releases Demo

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Jessye Norman at Notre-Dame

…in the receding mist…

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American academy and institute of Arts and Letters - Composer awarding, Cri 578

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Dashow, Saylor & Sims: Vocal Works

James Dashow / Bruce Saylor / Ezra Sims

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Das Festkonzert zur Weihnachtszeit: Ein großer Abend aus Notre-Dame (Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon feat. conductor: Lawrence Foster)

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