Nancy Galbraith
Nancy Galbraith is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer.Biography
Galbraith began playing piano at the age of four. She studied music at Ohio University, West Virginia University, and Carnegie Mellon University. She now teaches composition and music theory at Carnegie Mellon. She has had six works premiered with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and has a close relationship with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, who premiered her choral works Missa Mysteriorum and Requiem. She has had works commissioned from several Latin American ensembles. Her music is published in the United States by Subito Music, and internationally by Boosey & Hawkes.Compositions
Note: This list is incomplete.Orchestral works
- Morning Litany
- Danza de los Duendes
- Piano Concerto No. 1
- A Festive Violet Pulse
- Tormenta del Sur
- De Profundis ad Lucem
- Fantasy for Orchestra
Vocal/choral works
- In Unity and Love
- Christ By Whose Death
- Missa Mysteriorum
- Magnificat
- Four River Songs
- God of Justice
- Requiem
- Sacred Songs and Interludes
- Two Emily Dickinson Songs
- Novena
- with brightness round about it
- Danza de los Duendes
- Wind Symphony No. 1
- Elfin Thunderbolt
- Dream Catchers
- Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble
- Internal Combustion
- Washington's Landing
Chamber music
- Time Cycle
- Fantasia
- Into Light
- Aeolian Muses
- Incantation and Allegro
- Rhythms and Rituals
- String Quartet No. 1
- Inquiet Spirits
- Island Echoes
- Atacama Sonata
- Dos Danzas Latinas
- Of Nature
- Sonata for Bassoon and Piano
- String Quartet No. 3
- Traverso Mistico
Solo piano
- Haunted Fantasy
- Prelude for Piano
- Piano Sonata No. 1
- Three Preludes for Piano
Organ works
- Cortege
- Litany
- Agnus Dei
- Christ By Whose Death
- Gloria Te Deum
- Prelude and Fugue