NEWS

Recent:

Con ritmo was performed Friday, March 9 at the University of Alabama-Birmingham by Ronda Ford (flute), Erika Schafer (trumpet), and Jenny Parker (piano).

Con ritmo was premiered Thursday, February 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Roland Hayes Concert Hall at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga by Ford, Schafer, and Parker.

Broder's Lullaby III for organ was premiered December 31, 2017 at Faith Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida by Roderick Gorby.

BIOGRAPHY

Michael Broder (b. 1988) writes music with narrative shapes that seek specific dramatic goals. His compositions have been performed on various festival programs and on tours in New York state, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida by artists such as the Mana Saxophone Quartet, Singularity, and composer-percussionist Jamie Wind Whitmarsh. Broder’s compositions encompass a variety of ensembles, including chamber winds and strings, concert band, orchestra, voice, and various solo works. He is a two-time finalist for an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a winner of Duo Fujin’s 2011 One-Day Composition Contest, and a two-time recipient of the Arnold Salop Memorial Composition Prize. His studies include work with Leonard V. Ball, Clifton Callender, Adrian P. Childs, John Corina, and Ladislav Kubík. Broder holds degrees of D.M. and M.M. in Theory and Composition from Florida State University and B.Mus. in Composition from the University of Georgia. He currently teaches at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Lee University.