Nancy Galbraith

Nancy Galbraith is an American postmodern/postminimalist composer. She is professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon University.

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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.
She is the Vira I. Heinz Professor of Composition at Carnegie Mellon University

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''

Works for wind ensemble

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
''Febris Ver''

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
Effervescent Aire
Strange Travels
Midnight Stirring
Festive Overture for Cellos
''Blue Capriccio''

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''