Amy Scurria

Amy Scurria (born September 24, 1973) is an American composer.

Biography

Amy Scurria was born into a military family and showed an early interest in music, memorizing the piano assignments of her sister Jackie. At age 11 she took lessons under the Suzuki method and began composing.^[1]

Scurria graduated from Rice University in Houston, Texas, in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in composition and from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1998 with a master's in composition. She entered a doctoral program at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 2007, and has also studied at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, France. Teachers she studied with include: Chen Yi, Robert Sirota, Narcis Bonet, Anthony Kelley, and Stephen Jaffe. Her compositions have been performed in the U.S., England, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, France, and Japan.^[2] She was a composer-in-residence at Shepherd College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 2001.^[3]

Honors and awards

• 1991 Northern Virginia Composition Competition
• 1998 Haddonfeld Young Composers' Competition
• ASCAP Award Recipient, 1999–present
• Winner of Haddonfield Young Composers Competition for Beyond All Walking, 1998
• Music highlighted at National Convention for Women in the Arts, Rice University, 1996
• Winner of N. VA Composition Competition, 1990
• Superior rating in National and State Piano Guild, 1988–91^[4]

Works

• What the Soul Remembers (2009)
• Esperanza Rising (2009)
• La Loba (2008)
• Tiamat (2008)
• Something Borrowed, Something Blue (2008)
• What the Soul Remembers (2009)
• Adaptations (2007)
• We Are Met at Gettysburg for full orchestra (2003) with Steve Heitzeg
• And He Shall Be Like a Tree for SATB Choir and Organ/Piano, (2000)
• A Prayer for SATB Choir, (1999)
• Beyond All Walking for Full Orchestra, (1998)^[5]

References