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Dr. Stacy Garrop’s music is centered on dramatic and lyrical storytelling. She employs her narrative approach in both her choral and instrumental works. New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras chose her and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra as one of five orchestra/composer pairings for Music Alive’s 2016-2019 residence program. She has additionally received awards and grants including the Barlow Prize, Fromm Music Foundation Grant, three Barlow Endowment commissions, Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition, Utah Arts Festival Composition Competition, Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Composition Competition, and competitions sponsored by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, and the New England Philharmonic.
Dr. Garrop is a recording artist with Cedille Records, with works commercially available on ten additional labels. Theodore Presser Company publishes her chamber and orchestral works; she self-publishes her choral pieces under Inkjar Publishing Company. She has been commissioned by the choirs Anima (Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus), Chanticleer, Chicago a cappella, Dale Warland Singers, Piedmont East Bay Children’s Chorus, San Francisco Choral Society, South Bend Chambers Singers, and Volti, and by the Albany Symphony, Capitol Saxophone Quartet, Gaudete Brass Quintet, and Kronos Quartet/Carnegie Hall. Dr. Garrop received her degrees in composition from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (B.M.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and Indiana University (D.M.). She taught composition at Roosevelt University for seventeen years before leaving academia for a full-time freelance career.
