American composer, conductor, and educator
Whitney George Official Website
Works for Brass Ensemble
- Fallacies (2014) for brass quintet
- Carelessly Open, Something Unsaid, the Phone off the Hook (2014) for trombone ensemble
Biography
Whitney George’s music traverses the affective terrain between tragedy and ecstasy, fragility and strength, bringing together romantically delicate intimacy and the spectacular darkness of the macabre. Haunted by ghosts and/of love, George’s operas, staged multimedia works, and chamber music coloristically explore the mysteries of irrationality, nightmare, and memory, sonically seeking lost objects and hidden subjects.
George holds an undergraduate degree from the California Institute of the Arts, a master’s degree from Brooklyn College, and a DMA from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she has studied with David Del Tredici, David Olan, Bruce Saylor, and Tania León. In addition to her composing and conducting, George teaches at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, works at the Hitchcock Institute of American Studies, is on the composition faculty for Face the Music, and can be found giving lectures on anything from Shostakovich to OK Computer for Think Olio.
extracted from the composer’s website