Nora Essman Morrow has been a musician all her life. As a child she composed songs on the guitar and improvised stories at the piano. Introduced to modern dance accompaniment through a music and movement class [...]
Clare Shore, the second woman to earn the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from The Juilliard School, has received critical acclaim for her works, with reviewers from The New York Times, New York Post, [...]
David Nisbet Stewart is a composer, pianist, and organist. His career began in academia and migrated into computer technology from 1979 onward. His style of composing also changed as he pursued a new occupation. David believes that leaving [...]
James Shrader is a retired Professor of Music at Valdosta State University in Valdosta GA, and also taught at Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech University. He was a visiting professor at Oklahoma State University [...]
Elliott Miles McKinley’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and he has received commissions from numerous notable ensembles. Elliott is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a BMI Student [...]
As 2019 hits its pivot point and we head into the second half of the year, momentum only continues to pick up. Together with our artists, we are heading into exciting new territory, coinciding with the [...]
Dedicated to premiering and performing new choral music, Grammy Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing and Artistic Director Donald Nally are no strangers to artistic innovation. So when PARMA began a new initiative to introduce more contemporary [...]
With music described as “flat out beautiful” and “full of mystery,” composer Edie Hill is a name you'll want to remember. Her works have been performed around the world, and she has been commissioned to write [...]
It’s a moment many performers only dream of. That backstage buzz of energy, met by the hum of audience murmurs and the anticipation of composers on the edges of their seats, waiting to hear the [...]
Each month, PARMA has the pleasure of not only releasing powerful works by our artists, but also seeing the positive impact that these works have on listeners. Read on for a selection of what the press [...]
