Christmas with Conrad

ECMC performs Conrad Susa's iconic work in its iteration for men's chorus with harp, guitar, and marimba under the baton of Artistic Director, Vince Peterson, a widely-known expert on Susa's life and music. Also included on this album are Susa's arrangement of the classic carol and his long-forgotten derivative work for double choir and piano. Get into the spirit of the season ECMC style through the brilliant compositional mind and manuscripts of the late, celebrated composer, Conrad Susa.

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Conrad Susa was resident composer for the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and served as dramaturge for the O'Neill Center in Connecticut. He also wrote numerous scores for documentary films and PBS television productions, choral and instrumental works and operas (Transformations, Black River and The Love of Don Perlimplín) commissioned by the Minnesota Opera Company, San Francisco Opera and Pepsico. His church opera The Wise Women, was written for the American Guild of Organists and The Dangerous Liaisons, for the San Francisco Opera.

Mr. Susa served as staff pianist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and as assistant editor of Musical America magazine. He won numerous awards, including Ford Foundation fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts grants and a National Endowment Consortium grant. He earned a B.F.A. from Carnegie Institute of Technology and received an M.S. from The Juilliard School, where he studied with William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, and P.D.Q. Bach.