About

Cory Brodack (b.1997, St. Louis) is a composer whose music is “at times ethereal, with masterful weaving of timbre and tone; and at times energetic, almost brutal, with unrelenting drive,” (Donovan Seidle, Calgary Philharmonic). His music ranges from deeply personal and reflective to explosively bombastic, often within the same piece. He has been awarded the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize, East Carolina University's Orchestra Composition Competition, and first prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Composer Competition, among other honors. With a passion for collaboration, Cory has worked with performers and ensembles including JACK Quartet, Hub New Music, Unheard-of//Ensemble, icarus Quartet, Hypercube, and Rhythm Method String Quartet. He has also received commissions from artists and groups such as Andrew Pelletier, Bowling Green State University, the Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis, and the Steven Gerber Trust.

 

His music has been featured at concerts and festivals including the Society of Composers National Conference, Hot Air Music Festival, Bowling Green New Music Festival, UNG’s Research on Contemporary Composition Conference, and New Music on the Bayou. In addition to composing, he has worked for the Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis (The Muny) on projects such as the first staging of Jerome Robbins's Broadway since 1989, and a new orchestration of The Wiz during the Muny's historic centennial season.

 

Dr. Brodack received his PhD in Composition from the Eastman School of Music, his MM in Composition from Bowling Green State University, and his Bachelor of Music from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. His principal teachers include Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Robert Morris, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Mikel Kuehn, Christopher Dietz, and Kimberly Archer. He currently teaches and is the recording engineer at the School of Music at the University of Missouri.