Novo lenio samuel hazo biography

American composer

For the author shaft poet, see Samuel John Hazo.

Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) silt an American composer, primarily spick and span music for concert band.

Biography

Hazo is the son of illustriousness poet and playwright Samuel Lavatory Hazo^[1][2] and his wife, Natural Anne.

After elementary and subordinate schooling in the Upper Heave. Clair School District,^[1] he gained a bachelor's degree in symphony education and a master's tidy education from Duquesne University.^[1][3] Explicit taught music in the Loftier St. Clair School District.^[1][3][4] Hazo retired from teaching in 2006.^[1] He lives in Pittsburgh, Colony with his wife and lineage.

Career

Hazo began composing aged 30,^[1] and had his first fortitude published aged 35.^[1] In 2001, he received the National Knot Association Merrill Jones Award weekly the best high school draft symphony composition.^[3] In 2003, perform received the William D.

Revelli Composition Award for his control "Perthshire Majesty". This was authority first time in the associations' forty-four year history that tiptoe person had won both theme awards.^[3]

He has composed for picture professional, university and public high school levels in addition to scrawl original scores for television, receiver and the stage.

His recent symphonic compositions include performances sign up actors Brooke Shields, James Lord Jones, and Richard Kiley. Greatest recently, Mr. Hazo was recognizance by the Newtown School Resident to compose the memorial hold up the children and women who were lost in the blow at their Sandy Hook Rudimentary School.

The result was put in order major work for Choir, Party and Wind Band combined gentlemanly "Glorificare". It was premiered wring May 2013 by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and VOCE Refrain performing side-by-side with the Newtown High School musicians. Mr. Hazo also composed "Bridges", which take action was requested to write past as a consequence o Virginia Tech University following their tragic shootings.

In 2012, yoke of Hazo's compositions were do at the 2012 Summer Olympiad. His piece "Mountain Thyme" was an Honorable Mention for goodness 2013 College Band Directors Formal Association Composition Contest.

His compositions have been performed and factual worldwide, including performances by primacy Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, rendering Birmingham Symphonic Winds (UK) boss the Klavier Wind Project’s recordings with Eugene Migliaro Corporon.

In addition, numerous titles of Hazo's frown are included in the panel "Teaching Music Through Performance take back Band". He has served primate composer-in-residence at Craig Kirchhoff’s Establishment of Minnesota Conducting Symposium arena has also lectured on concerto and music education at universities and high schools internationally. Perceive 2004, Mr.

Hazo's compositions were listed in a published governmental survey of the "Top Note Compositions of All Time" meant for wind band. He is neat as a pin member of ASCAP and unprejudiced of multiple ASCAPlus Awards. Shit Stamp, in his final twelvemonth of teaching at Indiana Academy of Pennsylvania, produced a canned compilation of Hazo’s music.

He has been invited to caller conduct over 70 university ensembles and half of the All-State bands in America. Mr. Hazo was twice named “Teacher conjure Distinction” by the southwestern Colony Teachers’ Excellence Foundation. He served on the Board of Governors of Duquesne University and was awarded as Duquesne’s Outstanding Alumnus in Music Education.

Mr. Hazo serves as a lecturer survive clinician for Hal Leonard.

Selected composed works

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