Scott Ordway

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Scott Ordway is an American composer and conductor. Called “exquisite” by The New York Times and “a marvel” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, American composer and conductor Scott Ordway is known for his boundary-defying, mixed media projects and pieces with “evocative soundscapes and velvet harmonies” (Boston Classical Review). He is Assistant Professor of Composition at Rutgers University, a 2017–19 Fellow at American Opera Projects in New York City, and was previously a member of the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Ordway’s work is passionately multidisciplinary, fusing music with original text, video, digital soundscape, and experimental theater to explore a diverse array of contemporary themes including landscape and ecology, architecture, protest and revolution, and the lives of cities. Over the past decade, Ordway has composed a series of large-scale works that bring together multiple artistic disciplines and humanistic themes. Many of these pieces explore the intersection of music and literature, with the composer working in English, French, Spanish, and German to create adaptations, collages, translations, and original text for music. The works showcase the composer’s desire to unearth unusual texts and rare musical gems as source material, as well as his interest in the architectural and acoustic properties of the physical performance space. Ordway’s critically-acclaimed, crowd-interactive Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World is one suc

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