Carlyle Sharpe
Associate Professor, Composition and Theory

B.M./M.M. (1989) Rice University D.M.A. (1994) Boston University 251 Clara Thompson Hall 417-873-7395

Carlyle Sharpe (b. 1965) is Associate Professor of Music in Composition and Theory at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. Commissions include those from the Seraphim Singers, Providence Singers, Suburban Youth Symphony Orchestra (Chicago), Colorado Brass Band, Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, ALEA III Contemporary Ensemble in Boston, and Olympic Quartet for the 2002 Winter Olympics Festival Concerts celebrating the Cultural Olympiad. He has won the American Guild of Organists/ECS Publishing Award in Choral Composition in 1996 and 2000, and the 1997-98 Holtkamp/American Guild of Organists Award in Organ Composition. He is published by ECS Publishing, Hinshaw Music, Inc. and Colla Voce Music, Inc., and has been honored through the ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers, an ASCAP scholarship, the ASCAP Awards, and Meet the Composer.

His music has been broadcast over WGBH Radio-Boston, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Minnesota Public Radio and Nebraska Public Radio, and his works have received numerous performances including those by the San Diego Symphony, Innovations en Concert-Les Solistes "Amérique" in Montréal, Minnesota All-State Choir, New England Philharmonic, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Kwang Ju City Choir in Korea, Charlotte Symphony, Omaha Symphony, and at the Oberlin College-Conservatory, Aspen Music Festival, Washington National Cathedral, the American Guild of Organists National Conventions in Denver and Philadelphia, the 4th Curso Internacional de Regencia Coral in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Melbourne 5th International Festival of Choirs in Australia, and the Tanglewood Music Festival.

While completing the doctorate at Boston University, he studied composition with John Harbison, Charles Fussell, and Marjorie Merryman. As an undergraduate at Rice University, his teachers were Paul Cooper, George Burt, and Arthur Gottschalk. Further studies in the Advanced Master Class Program in Composition at the Aspen Music Festival included those with Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands.

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