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(http://www.theodorewiprud.com/)
Born in 1958 in Washington, D.C. and currently residing in New York, Theodore Wiprud is a composer who also plays important roles as concert presenter, educator, and music executive. His compositions are known for the impact they make on performers and audiences, reflecting his constant interaction with both adult and young musicians and listeners from the New York Philharmonic, where he currently serves as Director of Education, to classrooms and community venues.
Wiprud's music frequently deals with spiritual experience: orchestral music (such as Hosannas of the Second Heaven) and chamber music (String Quartet No. 1, Refining Fire and String Quartet No. 2, Intimations and Incarnations) responding to Dante's Divine Comedy and similar works; choral music on texts from diverse religious traditions (Three Mystical Choruses); and percussion scores like Anima and Dark Love. Other pieces involve American literature, including American Journal, based on Robert Hayden's poem, and A Georgia Song, a setting of Maya Angelou. His Saxophone Quartet has been described as "a work of substance, rewarding to perform, and warmly received by audiences."
Wiprud earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry at Harvard and his master's in theory and composition at Boston University, where he worked with David Del Tredici. He was a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University as a student of Robin Holloway, and a composition fellow at the Aspen Music School studying with Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands.
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