One of the last students of legendary teacher Nadia Boulanger, David Conte is Chair of the Composition Department and Professor of Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is the composer of over 150 published works, including six operas, a musical, works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber music, organ, piano, guitar, and harp. Conte co-wrote the film score for the documentary Ballets Russes, shown at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals, and composed the music for the PBS documentary, Orozco: Man of Fire shown on the American Masters Series. He served on the board of the American Composer's Forum from 2011-2017, and is currently Composer in Residence with Cappella SF, a professional chorus in San Francisco. Three CDs of his music have been released since 2015: Chamber Music of David Conte, on the Albany label; Facing West: Choral Music of Conrad Susa and David Conte, on the Delos label; and Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte, on the Arsis label. For a complete listing of commercial recordings, see Spotify.
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Conte Wins 2016 NATS Art Song Composition Award for “American Death Ballads”
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Online Interview with the American Composer's Forum
composersforum.org
St. Olaf Choir sings "The Homecoming: In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr."
view on YouTube
New CD: “Of A Summer Evening” for Guitar Duo
CD: Mundus Novus;
Americas Guitar Duo; Vinicius Jacomin, Gillian Omalyev, guitarists
https://www.americasguitarduo.com
Listen to: Movement IV. “Fireflies”
https://www.americasguitarduo.com/videos/
New CD - available on Spotify, Amazon, and E.C. Schirmer
Vocal Music of David Conte
"Conte proves himself a master of the singing line... Moments of palpably exciting
drama are interposed with those of quiet reflection, containing Conte's trademark
exquisite flowing melodic lines... David Conte is a major composer of our era.”
- David DeBoor Canfield, FANFARE MAGAZINE