Scott Gendel

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Scott Gendel (born June 24, 1977) is an American composer, pianist, and vocal coach. Gendel is known mostly for his art songs and choral music, but has also written numerous operas and musical theatre works, as well as orchestral and chamber music. [1]

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Scott Gendel headshot. [Photography by Katrin Talbot.]

Career

Gendel attended Bard College from 1995-1999, where he studied composition with Joan Tower and Daron Hagen. He then received his MM and DMA degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied vocal coaching & piano with Martha Fischer, and composition with Stephen Dembski. [1]

His art songs first achieved national attention with his song cycle "Forgotten Light", which won First Prize in the inaugural ASCAP / Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Composition Competition, [2] as well as having selected songs recorded by soprano Julia Faulkner and pianist Martha Fischer for Naxos Records’ “Between The Bliss And Me.” [3] More recently, Gendel’s song “At Last” was recorded by soprano Camille Zamora and cellist Yo-Yo Ma for “An AIDS Quilt Songbook: Sing for Hope.” [4] Opera News called Gendel’s song on that recording “luminous, transcendently lyrical.” [5]

Gendel’s art song output is now published by Classical Vocal Reprints, [6] and those songs receive frequent performances. His cycle “I’m Afraid It’s You” won second prize in the 2015 NATS Art Song Composition Competition. [7] Writing in NewMusicBox, Daron Hagen said “Scott Gendel's art songs combine superb craftsmanship, a sophisticated and well-honed sense of prosody, texts of excellent literary quality, and a sure heart.” [8]

Other notable works of Gendel’s include the choral/orchestral cantata “All Souls” for All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington D.C., [9] the musical theatre piece “Unearthed” written with poet/playwright Nick Lantz for Endstation Theatre, [10] the oratorio “Barbara Allen” which combines Appalachian folk song with orchestral concert music, [11] and the opera for young audiences “Super Storm,” being written in collaboration with Opera For The Young. [12]

List of works

Source: [1]

Voice and piano

Theatre and Opera

Choral works

Chamber music

Vocal chamber music

Orchestra/band

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  3. "Vocal Recital: Faulkner, Julia - Between the Bliss and me… Songs to Poems by Emily Dickinson - 8.559731". www.naxos.com. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
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  7. "National Association of Teachers of Singing - Conte Wins 2016 NATS Art Song Composition Award". www.nats.org. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  8. "Triple Win in Lehmann Song Competition: Commission, Publication, Multiple Performances" . Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  9. ""All Souls" A World Premiere Choral-Orchestral Work by Scott Gendel | All Souls Church Unitarian". all-souls.org. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  10. Gillis, Casey. "Focus On: Composer Scott Gendel weaves an Appalachian tale through music". NewsAdvance.com. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  11. "Scott Gendel – Barbara Allen". Scot Hanna-Weir. 2016-04-22. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  12. "OFTY FYI: Announcing Super Storm! | OFtY FYI". operafortheyoung.org. Retrieved 2017-04-12.