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Composer Website: http://www.scottordway.com/catalogue/
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Scott Ordway (born 1984; Santa Cruz, California, United States) is an American composer, conductor, and Assistant Professor of Music in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Previously, he held faculty positions at the Curtis Institute of Music and Bates College.
Scott Ordway was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. He received his B.A. from the University of Puget Sound in 2006, followed by a Master’s Degree from the University of Oregon in 2008. After studies in Europe at the Freie Universität Berlin and Accademia Chigiana (Siena), he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. His composition teachers included Robert Kyr, Jay Reise, Samuel Adler, Veljo Tormis, Anna Weesner, and James Primosch. He studied conducting with Hirvo Surva at the University of Oregon and David Hayes at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Ordway is the composer of three symphonies, two concert settings of the mass, numerous works for solo and ensemble voices, and more than 20 works for string quartet and other instrumental ensembles. In recent years, his work has focused on a series of large-scale, multidisciplinary compositions inspired by architecture, landscape, and the lives of cities. His work has been called “exquisite” by The New York Times, “a marvel” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, and “an American response to Sibelius” by The Boston Globe.
He has collaborated with ensembles throughout the United States and abroad, including the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra,Tanglewood New Fromm Players, Lorelei Ensemble, So Percussion, SOLI Chamber Ensemble Fireworks Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Momenta Quartet, and Arneis Quartet.
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