American Song Composer Information

You may choose ANY composer born after 1930, they may be immigrants living in the USA. We encourage you to include at least one composer from the list below. Any of the following composers have worked with SongFest in the past either as faculty or through commission and/or world premiere. An asterisk (*) on this list indicates a SongFest commissioned composer.

Juhi Bansal*
William Bolcom*
Dorothy Chang*
Tom Cipullo*
Reena Esmail*
Gabriela Lena Frank*
Dan Crozier
Ricky Ian Gordon
Juliana Hall *

John Harbison*
Jake Heggie
Martin Hennessy*
Jennifer Higdon*
Richard Hundley*
Libby Larsen*
Lori Laitman*
Sally Lamb
Anne LeBaron*

Cecilia Livingston
Ben Moore*
Erika Muhl
John Musto
Shawn Okpebholo
James Primosch*
Shulamit Ran*
Sheila Silver*
Anna Weesner*