Loretta Notareschi
Sacred & Profane's May 2008 War and Peace concert will feature a new work by Loretta Notareschi, commissioned by the choir.
Composer Loretta K. Notareschi was born in Canton,
Ohio and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She has
received awards from the American Composers Forum,
Ensemble Eleven, and the GALA Choruses and has written
music for the San Francisco Community Music Center,
the Napa Valley Youth Symphony, the Sacramento Youth
Symphony Chamber Music Workshop, the PRISM Saxophone
Quartet, the Rivers Music School Brass Ensemble,
clarinetist Peter Josheff, the Calliope Duo, Clogs,
Nathan Davis of the ensemble Non Sequitur, the
yesaroun' DUO, Ensemble Eleven, percussionists Yousif
Sheronick and Joseph Gramley, and sopranist Zachary
Gordin, among others. Projects in 2007 include a piece
for the Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus and a song
cycle for soprano Tara Generalovich on poems by
Margaret Ronda.
Notareschi is an assistant professor at Regis
University in Denver and a faculty member of The
Walden School. She is also a member of ASCAP, the
Amercian Composers Forum, and the American Music
Center. Her music has been performed around the United
States and in the United Kingdom. Notareschi holds a
PhD in composition from the University of California
at Berkeley, a Bachelor of Music in composition from
the University of Southern California, and the General
Diploma from the Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute
of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary, where she was a
Fulbright Scholar. Her primary teachers in composition
have been Morten Lauridsen, Erica Muhl, Rick Lesemann,
Cindy Cox, and Jorge Liderman.