Will Healy (composer)

Last updated

Will Healy (born February 15, 1990) is an American composer, pianist, and artistic director of ShoutHouse, an orchestral hip-hop collective. [1]

Contents

Will Healy (composer)
Birth nameWilliam Healy
Born (1990-02-15) February 15, 1990 (age 34)
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Genres
Occupation Composer
Website willhealymusic.com

Biography

Early life and education

Healy attended New York City's Loyola School. He completed his Bachelor's of Music degree from Vassar College and received the W.K. Rose Fellowship in Creative Arts and the Jean Slater Edson Prize for his chamber work "Hashima". [2] [3] He obtained a Master's of Music in composition at The Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano, Steven Stucky, and Samuel Adler and was recipient of the Richard Rodgers Scholarship. [4] [5] [6]

Musical career

Healy's work has been performed at The Apollo Theater, the New York Philharmonic's Biennial series, [7] the Aspen Music Festival, on "New Sounds" with John Schaefer (WNYC) and "Making Music" (WBAI), The Kennedy Center, [8] Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, [9] New York City Ballet, (le) Poisson Rouge, [10] and Midsummer's Music. [11] In 2021, he worked with Kanye West on his album Donda as an arranger, transcriber, and director on live performances. [12] His commissions include Copland House, [13] the Great Lakes Chamber Festival, Novus New Music, Kyo Shin-An Arts, Robert Fleitz and Carrie Frey, Nancy Allen, and others. In 2018, Healy's work, "Kolmanskop," was presented by EarShot (the National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network) and the Jacksonville Symphony. [14] He was also composer in residence at Midsummer's Music in 2021. [15]

In 2014, Healy founded ShoutHouse, [16] a collaborative artistic project and band made up of four composers, five rappers, three jazz soloists, and more than a dozen classical musicians. Their first full length album, "Cityscapes," was released by New Amsterdam Records [17] in 2019. [18]

Awards and honors

As a composer and arranger, Healy is the recipient of awards including the 2023 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award, a 2017 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, [19] the W.K. Rose Fellowship, [20] a JFund commission from the American Composers Forum, [21] Musiqa's inaugural Emerging Composer Commission Program, [22] prizes in the Juilliard and Kaleidoscope Orchestra Composition Competitions. [23]

Selected works

Large Ensemble

Chamber

Instrumental Solo

Choral

Cityscapes (2019)

ShoutHouse, Music of Will Healy (2015)

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steven Stucky</span> American composer

Steven Edward Stucky was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.

Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross.

Melinda Jane Wagner is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in music. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College. She received her graduates degrees from University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania. She also served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Texas (Austin) and at the 'Bravo!' Vail Valley Music Festival. Some of her teachers included Richard Wernick, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran, and Jay Reise.

Martin Kennedy is a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music.

Chen Yi is a Chinese-American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts (M.A.) in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Chen was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition Si Ji, and has received awards from the Koussevistky Music Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2010, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School and in 2012, she was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019.

Warren Frank Benson was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion. His most notable piece is titled The Leaves Are Falling (1964).

Daniel Asia is an American composer. He was born in Seattle, Washington, in the United States of America.

Dan Coleman is a composer and music publisher.

Roger Joseph Zare is a Chinese-American composer and pianist. Currently based in Boone, North Carolina. He is known primarily for his orchestral and wind ensemble works, several of which have received significant recognition in the contemporary music community.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kati Agócs</span> Canadian-American composer (born 1975)

Kati Ilona Agócs is a Canadian-American composer and a member of the composition faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Gustavson</span> American composer

Mark Gustavson is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Ludwig (composer)</span> American composer of classical music (born 1974)

David Serkin Ludwig is an American composer, teacher, and Dean of Music at The Juilliard School. His uncle was pianist Peter Serkin, his grandfather was the pianist Rudolf Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad. His choral work, The New Colossus, was performed at the 2013 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roger Bourland</span> American composer, professor of music, publisher and blogger

Roger Bourland is an American composer, publisher, blogger, and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Clare Shore is an American composer, music educator mezzo-soprano, and conductor.

Victoria Ellen Bond is an American conductor and composer in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Felice</span> American composer

Frank Felice is an American composer of contemporary classical music and associate professor of composition, theory, and electronic music in the Jordan College of Arts at Butler University.

Christopher Cerrone is an American composer based in New York City. He was a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2014 Fromm Foundation commission recipient, a 2015 Rome Prize winner in Music Composition, and has received numerous awards from ASCAP.

Sean Friar is an American composer and pianist. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Peterson</span> American classical composer

Matthew Peterson is a classical composer of operas, choral works, orchestral and chamber music.

Lansing McLoskey is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His Zealot Canticles: An Oratorio for Tolerance was a winner of the 61st Annual Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance by the ensemble The Crossing. McLoskey serves as a Professor of Music at the Frost School of Music in Miami, Florida. Among McLoskey's numerous commissions are those from Guerilla Opera, Copland House, The Fromm Foundation, The Barlow Endowment, N.E.A., The Crossing, ensemberlino vocale, New Spectrum Foundation, Ensemble Berlin PianoPercussion, Passepartout Duo, the Boston Choral Ensemble, and Kammerkoret NOVA.

References

  1. ↑ "Queue-it". thekennedycenter.queue-it.net. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  2. ↑ "WK Rose Fellows - Fellowships - Vassar College". offices.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  3. ↑ "Will Healy '12 Earns WK Rose Fellowship Honor". Vassar College Athletics. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  4. ↑ "William Healy". LA Phil. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  5. ↑ "Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra - Composers". Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  6. ↑ Woolfe, Zachary (2016-04-29). "Review: Crescendos and Decay in Juilliard Premieres". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  7. ↑ "New York Philharmonic". NYPhil.org.
  8. ↑ "Will Healy | Kennedy Center". www.kennedy-center.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  9. ↑ "Will Healy and Gabriel Zucker, Piano". www.carnegiehall.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  10. ↑ "New Amsterdam Album Release - ShoutHouse - (le) poisson rouge". LPR. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  11. ↑ "Will Healy". Midsummer's Music. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. ↑ "Try the TIDAL Web Player". listen.tidal.com. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
  13. ↑ "COPLAND HOUSE NAMES CULTIVATE FELLOWS FOR 2020" (PDF). Copland House.
  14. ↑ "EarShot and Jacksonville Symphony Present Brand New Orchestral Works by Four Emerging Composers: Nicholas Bentz, Will Healy, Ursula Kwong-Brown and Meng Wang". www.myjaxchamber.com. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  15. ↑ "Area group nurtures emerging composers". WFRV Local 5 - Green Bay, Appleton. 2021-03-24. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  16. ↑ "New Amsterdam Records - Artists". New Amsterdam Records. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  17. ↑ "New Amsterdam Records - Artists". New Amsterdam Records. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  18. ↑ Matzke, Brianna (2019-11-01). "ShoutHouse Explores New York City's History on Debut Album Cityscapes". I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  19. ↑ "The ASCAP Foundation Names Recipients of 2019 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards". www.ascap.com. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  20. ↑ "WK Rose Fellows - Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising - Vassar College". fellowships.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  21. ↑ "JFund Awardee Will Healy Doesn't Sacrifice Virtuosity for Enjoyment". American Composers Forum. 2018-09-04. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  22. ↑ musiqaadmin (2019-10-14). "Musiqa announces winners of national and local competitions for emerging composers". Musiqa. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  23. ↑ "Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra - Composers". Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. Retrieved 2021-07-29.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.