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Cary Boyce bio (updated 7-4-2022)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cary Boyce is an Emmy Award-winning composer, musician, and producer whose music has been featured in the United States in concerts, festivals, film, radio, and television including NPR and PBS, and internationally on the BBC, Deutsche Welle, and France 3 television. Boyce’s credits include music for two films by Prix-de-Rome-winning director Evelyne Clavaud, as well as original music for the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) documentaries American Horizons: The Photography of Art Sinsabaugh (2008)<\/em> and Harp Dreams<\/em> (2008) which won three Emmy Awards in 2011, including Original Music.<\/p>\n

Numerous grants and awards include Arts International, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Indiana Arts Commission, and Humanities Washington. \u00a0In 2006 he was awarded an ASCAP\u00a0 Rudolf Nissim “Special Distinction” Award for his oratorio Dreams within a Dream<\/em> which was commissioned and premiered with the Bloomington Chamber Singers in 2003. He is one of eight composers commissioned to set The Vonnegut Requiem<\/a>, (1. Requiem Aeternam) which premiered at the Granfalloon Conference at Indiana University Bloomington in 2019.<\/p>\n

Boyce earned a doctorate in music composition (DM) at Indiana University Bloomington.\u00a0 During his studies, Boyce taught all levels of music theory and skills as a teaching fellow at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he also developed and taught “Music in Culture,” possibly the first interdisciplinary music course at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music; and subsequently he served as adjunct professor (composition) of music at Whitworth University in Spokane from 2028 to 2024.<\/p>\n

Boyce has been an active participant in diverse artistic and musical outreach endeavors of his community, not only as a composer, but also as a producer and music essayist with public radio, online journals, major orchestras, and community presses. The music of Cary Boyce is published by G. Schirmer, Boosey & Hawkes, and by Aguav\u00e1 New Music Studio.<\/p>\n

In his spare time, Dr Boyce was the president and CEO of Spokane Public Radio, a small public media network in the Pacific Northwest, from 2012 to 2024; and he previously served as the permanently-interim station manager at WFIU Bloomington, where he was the producer and executive producer of several nationally syndicated public radio programs and specials. \u00a0He remains active as a tenor, pianist, conductor and producer as well.<\/p>\n

Boyce was born in Santa Rosa, California.\u00a0 He earned a doctorate in composition (DM, 1994) at Indiana University Bloomington, studying composition with Claude Baker, piano with Asaf Zohar, and conducting with Jan Harrington and Robert Porco.\u00a0 He took his Master of Music degree at University of North Texas while studying composition with Martin Mailman, piano with Joseph Banowetz, and conducting with HenryGibbons.\u00a0 He studied at California State University, Sacramento where he studied composition with Robert Aichele, piano with Frank Wasko and Tom Hulse, and voice with Claudia Kitka.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Garden of Roses<\/em> is important because it\u2019s good in every way music can be good, and it can provide pleasure to audiences of every age, cultural background and level of sophistication \u2026\u201d
\n\u2014The Spokesman Review<\/p>\n

\u201cFluent and creative.\u201d
\n\u2014Washington Post<\/p>\n

“Such perfection! … A concert not to be missed.”
\n\u2014Ha’aretz<\/p>\n

“Lush vocal polyphony and his careful control of harmony enable this work to stand alongside the very best music in this vein.”
\n\u2014American Record Guide<\/p>\n

\u201cA formidable composer whose technique and lyric gifts are exceptional.\u201d
\n\u2014John Corigliano, Composer, New York<\/p>\n

“Dreams within a Dream<\/em>, Boyce’s new oratorio commissioned and performed by the Bloomington Chamber Singers is…an honest, inspired, and deftly crafted work, one of scope; of carefully designed, satisfying, back-and-forth shifts from tension to relief; of musical elements fitting poetic content; of artistic worth.”
\n\u2014Bloomington Herald-Times<\/p>\n

\u201cThree extraordinary pieces by American composer Cary Boyce …compare and contrast quite favorably with spiritualists\/minimalists P\u00e4rt and Tavener. Noche oscura<\/em> is a haunting setting of words by the Spanish monk and mystic St. John of the Cross, and its bittersweet intensity lingers long after the melody has faded. Boyce’s setting of the Marian Ave Maria<\/em> is as close to a masterpiece as you can come in four minutes. Nightshade<\/em> is for classical music fans who know where Freddy the Freeloader comes from…Hey MacArthur folks! Give that boy a grant and some Ritalin so he can spend more time composing!\u201d
\n\u2014Sequenza 21<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s wonderful, clear, evocative music, all of it, and the performances are beautiful. There is a timeless flow that comes through in each work and I found myself settling in to listen \u2026 a neo-renaissance feel that clearly takes acoustic space into consideration as a compositional element. It’s very striking.\u201d
\n\u2014Libby Larsen, Composer<\/p>\n

\u201c[The Ave Maria is] A stunning work, absolutely marvelous.\u201d
\n\u2014Dale Warland, Conductor, Minneapolis<\/p>\n

\u201cRefined, full of creativity and imagination.\u201d
\n\u2014Mario Lavista, Composer, National Conservatory of Music, Mexico City<\/p>\n

“A soaring, effulgent voice all his own.”
\nBloomington Herald-Times<\/p>\n

\u201cTender and beautiful.\u201d
\n\u2014Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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