Gregg Wramage was born in Belmar, New Jersey on June 13, 1970. He received his BM and MM from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied on scholarship with Richard Danielpour. In addition to being selected as a finalist in the ASCAP Young Composer Awards on three separate occasions, Mr. Wramage has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and scholarships from the Bowdoin, Brevard, Aspen, and Norfolk music festivals and the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. In 1998, he was awarded the New Music for Young Ensembles Josef Alexander Award for his wind quintet, "Brilliant Mirrors", which was premiered by Pentasonic Winds in December of 2000 and sponsored in part by a Meet the Composer Fund Grant. Mr. Wramage's orchestral work "Deep Midnight" was selected by David Zinman for the Aspen Music Festival Jacob Druckman Composition Prize (2000). "Deep Midnight" was premiered by the Aspen Sinfonia conducted by Daniel Hege and supported by the first of two Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Grants awarded to Mr. Wramage. Other prizes include the 2000 Delius Festival Composition Contest Chamber Music Award for his trio "Last Words of a Hunger Artist" (After Kafka, 1999), and the CUNY Graduate Center Robert Starer Composition Prize for his sextet "in shadows, in silence", a work which also received the Natalie and Murray S. Katz Composition Prize from the Boston-based Collage New Music ensemble. In April of 2001, Mr. Wramage was chosen by Richard Danielpour as one of six associate-artists in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. While at the Atlantic Center, Mr. Wramage completed his first string quartet which was read by the ensemble-in-residence, the American String Quartet. In the summer of 2002, Mr. Wramage was awarded his second residency at the MacDowell Colony where he composed his "in shadows, in silence" which was premiered later that summer by eighth blackbird at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. He then took part in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's Composition and Conducting Institute where his "Deep Midnight" was performed by Lawrence Leighton Smith and the NJSO. Michael Daugherty selected Mr. Wramage to receive the 2002 Michigan Music Teacher's Association Commission, and in October 2002, Mr. Wramage's song cycle "Mourning Songs", on poems of Donald Justice, was premiered at the MMTA annual conference. Bruce Levingston premiered Mr. Wramage's most recent piano work, "Seven Solitudes", at Alice Tully Hall in April 2003. The following summer, Mr. Wramage was one of three composers selected by Michael Daugherty to participate in the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Young Composer's Workshop. While at Cabrillo, the chamber orchestra-version of Mr. Wramage's "in shadows, in silence" was premiered by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. Upcoming performances include the premiere of a new song cycle for soprano and piano on poems of Donald Justice by Friends and Enemies of New Music in New York this May. Mr. Wramage's "Into the Black Oblivion" (1999), a setting of Donald Justice's "Psalm and Lament" for baritone and chamber ensemble, has been recorded by the SCI CD Series on Capstone Records, and his "The Last Days of Summer", for wind ensemble, has been selected for inclusion in the rental library of Southern Music Publishing. Several radio programs have featured Mr. Wramage's music including "The Dean's List" on Aspen Public Radio, "Fresh Ink" on WCNY, and "Soundcheck" on WNYC. Mr. Wramage is currently a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York Graduate Center where he studied with David Del Tredici and George Tsontakis. He has also studied with David Liptak, Steven Stucky, Joan Tower, Michael Daugherty, and Christopher Rouse.