About
David Conte is the composer of over 150 works published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company, including 6 operas, a musical, and works for orchestra, chamber music, chorus, and vocal music. His opera The Gift of the Magi has received over 30 productions in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Russia. He is Professor and Chair of the Composition Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was one of the last students of French pedagogue and composer Nadia Boulanger. He has composed songs for Barbara Bonney, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Thomas Hampson, Matt Boehler, Marnie Breckenridge, Catherine Cook, A. J. Gluckert, Ann Moss, Kindra Scharich, and Brian Thorsett. In 2015 he won the NATS Composition Award for his cycle American Death Ballads, performed at the NATS Convention in Chicago by tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Warren Jones. In 2018 a double CD Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte was released on Arsis Audio.
–Updated biography contributed by the composer (Jan. 2021)
Related Information
Audio
Track:
Songs
A Hope Carol
David Conte
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Three Poems of Christina Rossetti
Candles in the Wilderness
David Conte
Philip Littell
Echo
David Conte
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Three Poems of Christina Rossetti
Entrance
David Conte
Dana Gioia
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Everyone Sang
Song CollectionDavid Conte
A. E. Stallings
Dana Gioia
Diane Thiel
Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone Sang
David Conte
Siegfried Sassoon
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Her Kind
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Homecoming
David Conte
A. E. Stallings
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Lead, Kindly Light
David Conte
Song Collection: Songs of Consolation
Prayer of St. Theresa
David Conte
Song Collection: Songs of Consolation
Quilt
David Conte
Diane Thiel
Song Collection: Everyone Sang
Rest
David Conte
Christina Rossetti
Song Collection: Three Poems of Christina Rossetti
Riding the Elevator into the Sky
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Ringing the Bells
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Rowing
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Sexton Songs
Song CollectionDavid Conte
Anne Sexton
Songs of Consolation
Song CollectionDavid Conte
The God of Love My Shepherd is
David Conte
Song Collection: Songs of Consolation
The Milky Way
David Conte
Philip Littell
Three Poems of Christina Rossetti
Song CollectionDavid Conte
Christina Rossetti
Us
David Conte
Anne Sexton
Song Collection: Sexton Songs
Sheet Music
Everyone Sang
Composer(s): David Conte
Song(s): 1. Homecoming
2. Entrance
Quilt
4. Everyone Sang
Sexton Songs (all versions)
Composer(s): David Conte
Song(s): 1. Rowing
2. Her Kind
3. Ringing the Bells
4. Riding the Elevator into the Sky
5. Us
