Bruce Saylor

Biographical Information:

Bruce Saylor is Professor of Composition and Music Theory at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College.

An award-winning scholarship student of Hugo Weisgall and Roger Sessions at Juilliard, Saylor earned his PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studied with George Perle and Felix Salzer. He took his Fulbright at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome studying bass clarinet, and pieces for strings, as well as works for solo piano, organ, and chamber combinations. He has provided scores for theatrical productions and dance, and special music for important national occasions and religious events, among them President Clinton’s Second Inaugural, the Rededication of Grand Central Terminal, the Papal visits of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and the Investiture of Frank T. Griswold as Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. His collaborations with American soprano Jessye Norman include the original music and arrangements for two best-selling holiday CDs, and her evening-length “Sacred Ellington” which has toured the world. Saylor’s more than 40 honors are from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, Mellon, and Jerome Foundations. He has received the Ives Scholarship and the Music Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Composition Prize from the National Society of Arts and Letters, many prizes from Juilliard, fellowship-grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, and a major award for composition from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Saylor has written for The Musical Quarterly, NOTES, Musical America, the Institute for Studies in American Music, and The New Grove Dictionary.

Office: Music Building 309

Phone: (718) 997-3857

Email: brucesaylor@aol.com

Website: www.brucesaylorcomposer.com