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Biography
Justin Ralls, internationally recognized and award-winning composer, is inspired by the natural world: “a gifted melodist…a beautiful blend of natural and human-made music” (Artslandia), “impressive…showing a mastery of orchestral technique” (composer, John Adams), “definitely establishing his own voice” (SF Examiner). Ralls' music engages ecologically and socially relevant themes in opera, orchestral, chamber, solo works, film music, and intercultural collaborations. Ralls' works have been performed by a variety of soloists and ensembles including Albany Symphony (NY), Third Angle Ensemble, Hawai'i Symphony Orchestra, Roomful of Teeth, Fear No Music, Eugene Opera, Jarring Sounds, International Orange Chorale, San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra and more. Ralls' Tree Ride won the 2013 Highsmith Award for orchestra and received Special Distinction in the 2014 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize. Tree Ride was also featured on Albany Symphony's 2015 Composer-to-Center-Stage as well as their 2017 American Music Festival, conducted by David Alan Miller. As conductor and Artistic Director of Opera Theater Oregon he has led the NW premieres of Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman's The Little Prince, Grammy Award winning composer Michael Daugherty's This Land Sings, collaborating with national radio personality Thom Hartmann. An exciting current project, Nu-Nah-Hup: Sacajawea's Story, is an opera project collaboration with Rose Ann Abrahamson (Agai-Dika/Lemhi-Shoshone culture bearer and great-great-grandniece of Sacajawea) portraying the Indigenous perspective of her ancestor, Sacajawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Recent projects include an original score to documentary film, In Search of the Stars by award-winning filmmaker, Sriram Murali. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition, specializing in Nature, New Music, and Indigenous Thought.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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Artist Information
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