|
Home |
Delvyn Case, pianist withThe Meltdown Incentive, is a composer, conductor, scholar, and educator based in Boston. He holds degrees from Yale (B.A. summa cum laude) and the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed the Ph.D. in composition at the age of 26 He has received honors and fellowships from numerous organizations, including BMI, The Society of Composers, The MacDowell Colony, The New York Virtuoso Singers, The Composers Conference at Wellesley, The Chicago Ensemble, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Sounds New, and The College Music Society, among others. In 1999, the extensive second movement of his sacred vocal work No Secret Hidden was a finalist for the Orvis International Prize in Vocal Composition. This piece, which also was honored with a BMI Student Composer Award in 2000, was released on a Gesher Records CD by baritone Lawrence Indik and pianist Charles Abramovic in 2004 He has been commissioned by virtuoso saxophonist Marshall Taylor, Boston Symphony Orchestra bass trombonist Douglas Yeo, the Triton Brass Quintet, and has served as composer-in-residence at the MasterWorks Festival in Winona Lake, Indiana He is currently working on a chamber opera commissioned by Boston’s Intermezzo opera company His composition teachers have included Steven Mackey, Ezra Laderman, David Rakowski, Sebastian Currier, Elliott Schwartz, James Primosch, and Jay Reise. Delvyn Case currently teaches at Boston College and at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Mass, where he serves as Artistic Director of the Musica Eclectica Concert Series He also conducts the ENC Choral Union and the ENC Gospel Choir, which has performed at Boston’s Bank of America Pavilion, the Hynes Convention Center, and the Grand Ole Opry. |
| © 2005 The Meltdown Incentive. All rights reserved. |
