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David Conte
composition; musicianship and theory; director of chorus; music history and literature
David Conte has been professor of composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1985, and conductor of the Conservatory Chorus since 1999. His close relationships with his teacher Nadia Boulanger and with her first American student of renown, Aaron Copland, informed and inform his striving as a creative artist committed to works that reflect the qualities of craftsmanship and harmonic sensibility Boulanger taught and Copland embodied. Mr. Conte was educated in the public schools of Lakewood, Ohio, and received his bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University, and an M.F.A. and D.M.A. from Cornell University. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship, an Aspen Conducting Fellowship, and grants from the Gerbode Foundation and Meet the Composer. He is the composer of over eighty published works, including five operas, a musical, and works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guitar and harp. His work is represented on numerous CD recordings. Conte co-wrote the film score for the documentary Ballets Russes (now available on DVD) and composed the music for the PBS documentary, Orozco: Man of Fire.
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