Lewinsville’s Music Fund has commissioned a Brass and Organ prelude composed by David Conte. This special Easter prelude is memory of Helen Martin, a longtime friend, musician, and generous supporter of Lewinsville’s Music Ministry and Music Fund.
Conte (b. 1955) is the composer of over one hundred and fifty works published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company. He lived and worked with Aaron Copland while preparing a study of the composer’s sketches, having received a Fulbright Fellowship for study with Copland’s teacher Nadia Boulanger in Paris, where he was one of her last students. Conte received his DMA from Cornell University. He is Professor of Composition and Chair of the Composition Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has received commissions from Chanticleer, the San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, and Dayton Symphonies, the Atlantic Classical Orchestra; and from the American Guild of Organists. In 2007 he received the Raymond Brock commission from the American Choral Directors Association, one of the nation’s highest honors in choral music. Conte is a significant LGBTQ+ composer and leading compositional voice in America.
