Paul Moravec is the composer of over seventy published orchestral, chamber, choral, and lyric compositions as well as several film scores and electro-acoustic pieces. His music has earned numerous distinctions, including the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, a Fellowship in Music Composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts & Letters as well as many commissions.

A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Hunter College and currently heads the Music Department at Adelphi University.

Recent world premieres include THE TIME GALLERY with Eighth Blackbird at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MONTSERRAT: CELLO CONCERTO with the Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola (NYC), A CROWD OF STARS with Robert White & Brian Zeger at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, QUINTESSENCE at the International Trumpet Guild conference, VITA BREVIS, a song cycle for tenor Paul Sperry, SPIRIT, a cantata commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the flight of the Spirit of St. Louis, TEMPEST FANTASY with David Krakauer and the Trio Solisti at the Morgan Library (NYC), NO WORDS, commissioned by Concert Artists Guild for pianist James Lent and the Gay Gotham Chorus, ZU-ZU'S PETALS! for the Kreston/Gordon violin/marimba duo, two works for the Elements String Quartet, EVERYONE SANG with baritone Troy Cook, commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and CHAMBER SYMPHONY, commissioned by the Bridgehampton Festival for its 20th anniversary season in August, 2003.

On compact disc: SONGS OF LOVE AND WAR for SATB Chorus/Orchestra on a CD featuring The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra, SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO on BMG/RCA Classics, SPIRITDANCE, an orchestral work on the Vienna Modern Masters label, and an album of chamber compositions titled CIRCULAR DREAMS on CRI. Coming next year on Arabesque Records: TEMPEST FANTASY, MOOD SWINGS, B.A.S.S. VARIATIONS, SCHERZO, performed by the Trio Solisti and clarinetist David Krakauer.

--photo credit: Lauren Piperno