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Pacific Chorale congratulates Joseph Gregorio of Redwood City, CA, the winner of our 2009–2010 Young Composers Competition for his work Love, thricewise! Mr. Gregorio’s submission was chosen out of submissions received from across the country to be premiered by the John Alexander Singers under the baton of Robert Istad at their A Romantic Affair concert in February 2010. Love, thricewise sets texts by three American poets: Witter Byner (1881–1968), Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) and Sidney Lanier (1842–1881). Mr. Gregorio attended the Saturday performance of A Romantic Affair, where he received a $1,500 honorarium.
A native of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Joseph Gregorio (b. 1979) began his study of composition as an undergraduate at Cornell University with composer Steven Stucky. Gregorio’s music has twice been featured on NPR's Performance Today and has been performed in the United States and abroad by numerous soloists and ensembles. He has twice participated in the Oregon Bach Festival’s Composers’ Symposium, and has presented his work in an art song master class with William Bolcom and Joan Morris. His Five Whitman Songs were selected for workshop presentation at the 2007 San Francisco Song Festival; his In the Presence of Redwoods won the San Francisco Conservatory's 2007 Jim Highsmith prize for orchestral composition; his Dona nobis pacem won top honors in the 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing Project; and his As Adam, Early in the Morning tied for first place in the San Francisco Conservatory’s 2005 Art Song Composition Competition and took third place in the 2006 Diana Barnhart American Song Competition. Gregorio was named the 2005-2006 composer-in-residence of the Sonoma County Chamber Singers. His choral music is published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company and Treble Clef Music Press, and has been recorded by the choirs of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, Washington Men's Camerata, the Rutgers University Glee Club, and the Cornell University Glee Club.
To learn more about Mr. Gregorio and his work, please visit his website.
Pacific Chorale’s Young Composers Competition was founded in the 2007–2008 season as part of the NEA-funded American Masterpieces Choral Festival. You can learn more about this biennial program and previous competition winners here.
For more information, please contact Katherine Yang at (714) 662-2345 or katherine@pacificchorale.org.
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