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Gramophone Magazine calls Shawn Crouch a "gifted young composer" and Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times describes Shawn Crouch's work as music of "gnarling atonal energy". The Miami Herald 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 and accolades from such prestigious institutions as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP, Yale University, Meet the Composer and the Percussive Arts Society. He is the inaugural recipient of the Dale Warland Singers Commissioning Award given by Chorus America and the American Composers Forum. Shawn Crouch, composer, conductor and educator, has had his works performed by among others; American Modern Ensemble, Cantori New York, California E.A.R. Unit, Chanticleer, Del Sol String Quartet, the Esoterics, Eighth Blackbird, Lost Dog New Music Ensemble, Non Sequitur, newEar Contemporary Ensemble, Prism Quartet, Seraphic Fire Chamber Choir and the Firebird Chamber Orchestra, and the Yesaroun' Duo. He has worked in collaboration with Miami based artist Kevin Arrow, dance choreographer Susan Dodge, and theater director Tina Packer and Shakespeare and Company.

An educator as well as a composer, Shawn Crouch currently serves as the Founding Director of the Miami Choral Academy, a tuition-free program that creates a little league-type network of choral ensembles for children in underserved communities of Miami-Dade County. Shawn Crouch has also served on the music faculty at the Walden School for Young Musicians, and the Hunter College Campus School in New York City .

Mr. Crouch has worked closely with the Center for Music-In-Education where he conducted portfolio research and assessment with 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 and Leo Wanenchak. He has been the Wallace-Readers Digest Composition Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center as well as a composition fellow at 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.Mus. in composition from the New England Conservatory with honors and distinction in performance, and his M.Mus. in composition from the Yale School of Music. Shawn Crouch's percussion music is published by Honey Rock Publication. Mr. Crouch's composition Lullaby from his Garden of Paradise is included on the recent album release of "The Best of Chanticleer" on Rhino Records. His orchestral composition City Columns can be found on the Navona Records label performed by the Moravian Philharmonic. Mr. Crouch's composition Suspended Contact has been recorded by the Yesaroun' Duo on their self entitled CD. Shawn Crouch is a BMI composer. Mr. Crouch currently serves on the Board of Directors for Chorus America.