Nancy Galbraith is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer.

Biography

Galbraith began playing piano at the age of four. She studied music at Ohio University

Ohio University

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 (BM, 1972), West Virginia University

West Virginia University

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 (MM, 1978), and Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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. She now teaches composition and music theory

Music theory

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 at Carnegie Mellon. She has had six works premiered with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

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 and has a close relationship with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, who premiered her choral works Missa Mysteriorum and Requiem. She has had works commissioned from several Latin American ensembles. Her music is published in the United States by Subito Music, and internationally by Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes

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Orchestral works

• Morning Litany (1988)
• Danza de los Duendes (1992)
• Piano Concerto No. 1 (1995)
• A Festive Violet Pulse (1998)
• Tormenta del Sur (2001)
• De Profundis ad Lucem (2002)
• Fantasy for Orchestra (2003)

Vocal/choral works

• In Unity and Love (1997)
• Christ By Whose Death (1999)
• Missa Mysteriorum (1999)
• Magnificat (2002)
• Four River Songs (2002)
• God of Justice (2004)
• Requiem (2004)
• Sacred Songs and Interludes (2006)
• Two Emily Dickinson Songs (2007)
• Novena (2007)

Works for wind ensemble

• with brightness round about it (1993)
• Danza de los Duendes (1996)
• Wind Symphony No. 1 (1996)
• Elfin Thunderbolt (1998)
• Dream Catchers (1998)
• Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble (2000)
• Internal Combustion (2001)
• Washington's Landing (2006)

Chamber music

• Time Cycle (1984)
• Fantasia (1986)
• Into Light (1989)
• Aeolian Muses (1993)
• Incantation and Allegro (1995)
• Rhythms and Rituals (1995)
• String Quartet No. 1 (1996)
• Inquiet Spirits (String Quartet No. 2) (2000)
• Island Echoes (2000)
• Atacama Sonata (2001)
• Dos Danzas Latinas (2002)
• Of Nature (2003)
• Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (2004)
• String Quartet No. 3 (2005)
• Traverso Mistico (2006)

Solo piano

• Haunted Fantasy (1979)
• Prelude for Piano (1986)
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (1997)

Organ works

• Cortege
• Litany
• Agnus Dei (adapted from her Mass)
• Christ By Whose Death
• Gloria Te Deum
• Prelude and Fugue (2007)

External links

• The official Nancy Galbraith website
• Biography from Sigma Alpha Iota
  Sigma Alpha Iota
  Sigma Alpha Iota , International Music Fraternity for Women. Formed to "uphold the highest standards of music" and "to further the development of music in America and throughout the world", it continues to provide musical and educational resources to its members and the general public...
  
  
• Biography from Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....