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Biography
Robert Convery (b. 1954) expresses his music in a distinctly personal voice of lyricism which is transparent, clean and unadorned in its rhythmic, harmonic and textural fields. He has composed works of every description including twenty-two cantatas, five operas, ten song cycles, motets, chamber works and orchestral works. He has received commissioning grants from many sources including colleges and universities, The Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, National Endowment for the Arts, and Opera America. He travels regularly for composer residencies at colleges and universities throughout the country.
His studies were at Westminster Choir College, The Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School where he received his doctorate. His principle teachers have been David Diamond, Richard Hundley, Vincent Persichetti and Ned Rorem. Born in Wichita, Kansas in 1954, he was raised in California and now resides in New York.
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