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705 South Delaware Avenue

Springfield, MO

65802

http://people.missouristate.edu/mikemurray/

Originally from suburban Maryland, Michael Murray currently lives in Springfield, Missouri, where he teaches composition and music theory at Missouri State University. He holds degrees in composition from the Catholic University of America and the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where his teachers included Allen Sapp and Frederick Bianchi. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States, Scandinavia, and Eastern Europe. He has won awards and grants from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Pi Kappa Lambda, and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. In addition to works for the concert hall, he has written music for film, theater productions, dance, and visual arts installations. His music and sound design for Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice was featured in the 2007 International Prague Quadrennial Scenofest exhibition of theater design. His intense interest in and work with traditional music of the Ozark region of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas has been subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) influencing his compositions for a number of years.

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Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Nether Music	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	00:16:00
Psalm 121	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2008	00:04:15
Nurse's Song	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2007	00:03:30
The Wild Winds Weep	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2004	00:08:00
Fantasia Concertante	Orchestra	2004	00:17:00
What Is It For?	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:09:30
After the Fall	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2002	00:07:00
Five Blake Songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2001	00:11:00
Drei Lebendes Bilder	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2000	00:08:00
The Lover Mourns	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1998	00:08:00
Songs of war	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1996	00:00:00
String quintet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:05:00
In the penal colony : opera in one act	Opera/Theater	1992	00:35:00
Two Tableaus	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1991	00:09:00
Five Movements For Brass Quintet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1989	00:08:00
Three Joyce Songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1988	00:12:00