Anthony Gatto (composer)

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Anthony Gatto (b. in Brooklyn, NY) is an American composer of music for theater, dance, film, opera, and concert music. He is also the founder of "The Festival Dancing in Your Head".

Biography

Anthony Gatto studied music with Ornette Coleman in New York City, and studied composition with Jacob Druckman, Lukas Foss, and Martin Bresnick at the Yale School of Music, where he completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2001. He has received fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Fellowship program, the Bush, McKnight, and Jerome Foundations, Meet the Composer, the Minnesota State Arts Board, an Aaron Copland Award, Yaddo residencies, and an ASCAP Grant to Young Composers. He has received commissions and performances from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (The Sheltering Sky), the Walker Art Center (The Making of Americans), the string quartet Ethel and guitarist Mark Stewart (Black Dog/Lucky Dog), the chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound (Eat a Peach), the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet (Unbreak My Heart), The Orchestra Dancing in Your Head (Dance You Monster to My Soft Song!), MATA Festival 2002/guitarist Michael Nicollela (Because a Pony (for John Lennon)), the Minnesota Orchestra (Summer Hockets), the Bakken Trio (Falling and Waving), the University of Minnesota Percussion Ensemble (Let It Come Down), Open Eye Figure Theater (Elijah's Wake), The Dale Warland Singers (Lyke-Wake Dirge). Gatto is the founder and Artistic Director of The Festival Dancing in Your Head.

External links

* [http://performingarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=4543&title=Upcoming%20Theater The Making of Americans, an opera after the novel by Gertrude Stein]
* [http://www.myspace.com/gattoanthony Myspace page]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E5DF163EF931A35752C1A9649C8B63 NY Times review of Black Dog/Lucky Dog]
* [http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=1350 The Festival Dancing in Your Head 2005: Ornette at 75]
* [http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=1353 The Festival Dancing in Your Head 2005 Marathon]