Samuel Headrick
Sam Headrick received his B.M. and M.M. in Composition from the
University of North Texas before earning his PhD in Composition at the
Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Samuel Adler, Warren Benson,
and Joseph Schwantner. Other studies include Horn with Roland Pandolfi,
Guitar with Alan Rosenkoetter, and Computer Music at M.I.T. with Barry
Vercoe.
Professor Headrick has presented his own music and given lectures and master
classes in composition and analysis for such institutions as the University
of California at Berkeley, Williams College, UCLA, M.I.T., the Peabody
Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the University of North
Texas, Southern Methodist University, the Berklee College of Music, the
Boston Conservatory of Music, the 2008 Opera & Society Interdisciplinary
Conference, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra,
and Brown University, where he was appointed as Visiting Associate Professor
in Composition for the fall term of 2008.
He has served as Guest Conductor for the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Players' On-Stage Series,
and as Music Director and Composer for the Huntington Theater Company's production of Twelfth Night.
Honors include the National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowship,
the National Endowment for the Arts Collaborative Fellowship in Opera,
the Massachusetts Artist Fellowship in Composition, two Composer Residencies
with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Artists Residencies with the
Berklee College of Music, Webster University, and the State University
of New York. He has also received two Meet The Composer Grants and yearly
ASCAP PLUS Awards since 1986.
Performances and commissions have come from such internationally renowned artists
as Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou, Sanford Sylvan, and Edwin Barker, Richard Pittman, and
from such organizations as the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Players, Alea
III, the Atlantic Brass Quintet, the Huntington Theater Company, the Boston University Mainstage Theater, Dinosaur
Annex, the Concordia Trio, the Esterhazy Quartet, the Synergy Brass Quintet,
the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, the Armory Brass Quintet, the Ernst von Semens Music Foundation, and Boston Music Viva. Festival
performances and commissions include the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival,
the Savannah Onstage International Arts Festival, the 4th Annual New York
City Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT), and the Iraklion International
Festival of the Arts.
A video of his one-act opera and audio recordings of his Second Symphony
and various other compositions are available to watch and hear on this site
in the "Works" sections.