Thomas Pasatieri

Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945) is an American opera composer.

Life and career

Pasatieri was born in New York City, United States. He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger. He entered the Juilliard School at age 16 and eventually became the school's first recipient of a doctoral degree.

Pasatieri has taught composition at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 1980 through 1984, he held the post of artistic director at Atlanta Opera.

He has composed 24 operas, the best known of which is The Seagull, composed in 1972. Two of his operas were premiered in 2007: Frau Margot by the Fort Worth Opera and The Hotel Casablanca in San Francisco. Other popular operas include La Divina and Signor Deluso.

In 1984, Pasatieri moved to Los Angeles, California, where he formed his film music production company, Topaz Productions. His film orchestrations can be heard in Billy Bathgate, Road to Perdition, American Beauty, The Little Mermaid, The Shawshank Redemption, Fried Green Tomatoes, Legends of the Fall, Thomas Newman's Angels in America and Scent of a Woman, among many others. In 2003, Pasatieri returned to New York to continue his concert and opera career.

Works

Operas

"The Vaudevillian" (2015) Opera in two acts; libretto by the composer.

Orchestral

Concertante

Instrumental and chamber music

Vocal music

Choral

Voice and chamber ensemble

Voice and orchestra

Voice and piano

  • Three Poems of Theodore Ramsay
1.Love
2.Remembering
3.On Parting
  • Vocalise
  • Three California Songs (Robert H. Deutsch)
1.Brother
2.Song
3.The Middle-Aged Shepherd
  • Windsong (Richard Nickson)

References

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