Sara Corry is currently a member of the U.S. Army where she serves as a Staff Arranger for the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own." For the last six years she has been a Teaching Fellow at Interlochen Arts Camp, providing instruction on electronic music and theory.
As a composer, Corry has had notable performances by the JACK Quartet, Harvard's Videri String Quartet, Dallas Symphony Chamber Players, Meadows Symphony Orchestra (Dallas), Interlochen Ensemble and the Musica Nova Ensemble (UMKC). She has received commissions from the Playground Ensemble, Dallas Museum of Art - Nasher Sculpture Center, and University of Colorado. She has been a featured composer at the Aquilla Summer Music Festival, ISCM Miami, and the UNC Open Space Festival. Her Composition "Aftersong" is included on the "Electronic Masters Vol. 5" CD released in 2016 by ABLAZE Records.
Coming from both a scientific and musical background, she was the recipient of a Catalyst grant to fund her ideas linking music and physics and won the O'Neal-Taniguchi prize for Arts Entrepreneurship for the development of a computer program that reads brainwaves and aids in musical performance.
In addition to composing and arranging, Corry is an active harpist. As a musician, she has performed in Carnegie Hall, Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Meyerson Symphony Center, Meng Concert Hall, as well as venues in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France.
She earned a Master's degree in Music Composition from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently finishing her D.M.A in Music Composition and Technology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her principle teachers include Dan Kellogg, John Drumheller, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, Yevgeniy Sharlat, and Rob Frank.
"Aftersong" for cello and electronics was selected to be on the Electronic Masters Vol.5 CD released by ABLAZE Records. It was a wonderful collaboration between the wonderful ...
Come to the 9th annual Colorado Composers Concert. "Aftersong" will be played by Richard VonFoerster. The talented musicican of the Playground Ensemble based in...
"The Five Solitudes" for string quartet is being performed by the Videri Quartet presented by the Cambridge Philharmonic. This is going to be a very exciting concert with works by...
Nepenthes is being played on May 22, 2014 at Gallery MC in New York City. My flutist and I are excited to put our Colorado hiking boots away and head to the big apple...
April 25-26th I will traveling in a car with a bunch of smelly composers for a performance of The Five Solitudes by the Musica Nova Ensemble, and Nepenthes...
Come listen to the wonderful Sorcha Barr give a flute recital at the academy. Lots of great pieces will be on the concert Copland, Bach, Persichetti and Me!
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