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Michael Robert Smith is an award-winning composer of contemporary concert music. His music has been commissioned and performed across the United States by The Crossing, Chorosynthesis, Mouthscape, the SFCM New Music Ensemble, soprano Winnie Neih, The Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, Pianist Josh Wilson, Singing City, The Commonwealth Club of California, cellist Nadia Geier, Chorosynthesis, Ensemble for These Times, The Constellation Men’s Ensemble, violinist Sam Weiser, Convoco, and the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia.

Smith received his undergraduate degree from Westminster Choir College and his graduate degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He will be pursuing his DMA in Composition at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin starting in the fall of 2024.

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Dormi JesuVoicing: SATB  Instrumentation: Unaccompanied  Performance Length: 4:00  Notation: Standard  Text Source: Sibylline Leaves, Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Language: Latin  Seasonal/Liturgical Use: Christmas  Descriptive Terms: Quiet, Gentle, Lullaby, Lyrical, Cantabile, Soft, Warm, Calm, Sweet  First Performance: December 17, 2017 : The Glassbrook Vocal Ensemble, Chaequan Anderson, 1867 Sanctuary. Ewing, NJ    Text SettingComposer’s NotesSource for Scores(P:E 1195/1891~2024-Q2)
Dreams in War TimeVoicing: SATB  Solo(s): Soprano  Instrumentation: Period Strings, Harpsichord, Guitar (Tuned To A=415)  Performance Length: 35:00  Notation: Standard  Text Source: Amy Lowell, Pictures of the Floating World  Language: English  Descriptive Terms: Reflective, Sadness, Intense, Critical, War  First Performance: February 23, 2019 : Mouthscape, SFCM Early Music Ensemble, Winnie Nieh, Robert “Bobby” Chastain, Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco    Text SettingComposer’s NotesSource for Scores(P:E 1195/1529~2021-Q2)
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