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Anthony Tomissini of the New York Times has described Shawn Crouch's work as music of "gnarling atonal energy", and Lawrence Johnson of the Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel called his Road From Hiroshima; A Requiem a "staggering achievement, an imaginative, powerful and deeply moving work" making the Miami Herald and Sun Sentinel's 2005 Classical Music Standouts. Shawn has received awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, Yale University, and the Percussive Arts Society. In 2006 his Road From Hiroshima; A Requiem was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Composition. Shawn Crouch, composer, conductor, educator, has had his works performed by the Eighth Blackbird Ensemble, the Non Sequitur Ensemble, The Del Sol String Quartet, Prism Saxophone Quartet, Seraphic Fire Choir and Orchestra, and the Yesaroun' Duo. He has worked in collaboration with dance choreographers Susan Dodge, Jeffrey Smith, and Cynthia Stephens, as well as in collaboration with theater director Tina Packer and Shakespeare and Company.

As a conductor, Mr. Crouch has lead such ensembles as the Yale Pro Musica, The Elm City Girls Choir, the Walden School Festival Chorus, the United Girls Choir, and the Hunter College Campus School Concert Choir.

In June 2000, Mr. Crouch completed a two-year internship with New England Conservatory's Learning Through Music program where he conducted portfolio research and assessment under the direction of Lyle Davidson and Dr. Larry Scripp. His article "Learning Through Music Portfolios in Elementary Education" was published by the Journal for Learning Through Music.

Shawn Crouch has studied composition with Martin Bresnick, Ezra Laderman and Malcolm Peyton and conducting with Marguerite Brooks. He has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and the Norfolk Music Festival where he studied with Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Gandolfi and Augusta Read Thomas. He has attended the Berklee College of Music and The Peabody Preparatory studying classical/jazz piano, composition and horn. Mr. Crouch received his B.M. in composition from the New England Conservatory with honors and distinction in performance, and his M.M. in composition from the Yale School of Music. Shawn Crouch currently serves on the faculty at Hunter College Campus School in New York City, as well as the Walden School in Dublin, New Hampshire. His percussion music is published by Honey Rock Publication.

Education Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT. Master of Music in Composition, 2002 New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA Bachelor of Music in Composition with Academic Honors and Distinction in Performance, 2000 Music-in-Education concentration Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition program, 1995-97 Principal Teachers Martin Bresnick • Ezra Laderman • Malcolm Peyton Festivals Tanglewood Music Center (2003) Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival (2001) Awards Charles Ives Scholarship, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2006 Honorable Mention, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, 2006 Ezra Laderman Award for best vocal composition, Yale School of Music, 2002 First Prize, Percussive Arts Society Saxophone and Percussion Composition Contest, 2001

Principal Commissioned Works On Winter Afternoons (2006), for double choir and piano Composed for Seraphic Fire Chamber Choir, Miami, FL The Road From Hiroshima, A Requiem (2005), for orchestra, choir, and soloists Composed for Seraphic Fire Chamber Orchestra and Choir Miami, FL The Naked Mind (2005), for saxophone quartet composed for the Prism Saxophone Quartet A Prayer on Which to Dream (2001), for SATB choir and oboe Composed for the Yale Pro Musica, Marguerite Brooks, conductor Suspended Contact (1999/2001), for alto saxophone and percussion Composed for the yesaroun' Duo, New York, NY. Published under Honey Rock Publishing Principal Works-In-Collaboration De La Luz (2004), for solo cello written in collaboration with The Dodge Dance Company King Lear (2003), chamber orchestra incidental music for Shakespeare and Co.'s summer production Lenox, MA