Conrad Susa

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Conrad Stephen Susa, born on 26 April 1935 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, is an American composer.

Susa was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Juilliard School, where his teachers included William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti and, so he says, P. D. Q. Bach. He is currently Chair of the Composition Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

His compositions include choral works, incidental music for various plays and a number of operas.

Transformations was to have been one of the featured operas of the 2006 Wexford Opera Festival.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Selected works

Operas

• Transformations (1973)
• Black River (1975, revised 1981)
• The Love of Don Perlimplin (1984)
• The Wise Woman (1994)
• The Dangerous Liaisons (1994, revised 1996-97)

Other works

• Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1972)
• Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest (1992)

[edit] References

• Adams, Byron. "Susa, Conrad". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.