David Sartor

From Wind Repertory Project

Biography

Composer David P. Sartor (rhymes with “Carter”) has been honored with prestigious awards that include the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Prize for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music, the National Fine Arts Award, a New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, nineteen consecutive ASCAP awards, and a “highly commended” award in England’s Oare String Orchestra's Third Annual International Music for Strings Composition Contest. Most recently, he was a finalist in both the Columbia Symphony Orchestra’s American Composer Competition and the Fauxharmonic Orchestra's Adagio Composition Contest. In June 2007, Sartor was awarded the Thor Johnson Memorial Commission by the Delta Omicron Foundation. The Johnson Commission, awarded every three years to a distinguished composer of concert music, funds the creation of a new composition to be featured at the international organization’s Triennial Conference. Sartor will compose a multi-movement work for string quartet that will be premiered at the 2009 Triennial Conference in Cincinnati, which also coincides with the 100th anniversary of Delta Omicron.

The recipient of commissions from a variety of ensembles, Sartor's music has been performed by noted artists such as the Cincinnati, Knoxville, Brevard, Kiev and Czech Symphony Orchestras, the Minneapolis Vocal Consort, the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington (D.C.) National Cathedral, the Chestnut Brass, bassist John Deak, soprano Cheryl Studer, organist Peter Fyfe, the Indiana Wind Symphony, and the "President's Own" United States Marine Corps Concert Band in Washington, D.C.

Sartor received his education at the Blair School of Music, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory, and the University of Tennessee, where he studied with John Anthony Lennon and David Van Vactor.