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Michael Maiorana
Biography
Michael Maiorana (b. 1990, Detroit, Mich.) is an American composer.
After graduating from Grinnell College in Iowa, Mr. Maiorana studied composition, harmony, and counterpoint at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris. He was recently awarded a 2020 ACF Create grant from the American Composers Forum to write a multi-movement choral work setting a speech about social welfare by Harry Hopkins.
Maiorana finds inspiration in nature, science, and art. He has participated in local composition workshops including VocalEssence Remix, Magpies & Ravens Lineage and the Nautilus Composer-Librettist Studio, and has also attended the Lehigh University Choral Composition Forum and the University of Missouri Kansas City Composition Workshop. His music has been performed by such ensembles as Lumina, newEar, Zeitgeist, 10th Wave, the Princeton Singers and andPlay. He is a member of the American Composers Forum and ASCAP.
Works for Winds
Adaptable Music
- Observation (flex instrumentation) (2016)
All Wind Works
- Observation (flex instrumentation) (2016)
- That Which Awaits the Dawn (2016)
Resources
- Michael Maiorana website Accessed 26 March 2021