ABOUT
Composer and conductor whose best known works include Lamentaciones de Jeremias, Hodie! (This Day), and Amor de mi alma. He won both the Australian-American Fulbright and the Douglas R. McEwen award for National Choral Excellence.He guest-conducted orchestras at venues such as the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and he also taught conducting and voice at Oklahoma State University.His primary musical composition mentors, Normand Lockwood and Cecil Effinger, had, themselves, studied with Gabriel Faure's protégée, Nadia Boulanger.
BEFORE FAMEHe studied vocal performance at the University of Colorado-Boulder before earning his Doctorate in conducting from Arizona State University.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
FUN FACTSComposer Z Randall Stroope were born on Sunday, birthstone is Opal, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Snake, it is 290 days until Z Randall Stroope next birthday.