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JOYCE SOLOMON MOORMAN was born in the campus hospital of Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her childhood was spent in Columbia, South Carolina, where she attended segregated public elementary and high schools. She earned her B. A. degree from Vassar College, the M. A. T. degree from Rutgers University, the M. F. A. degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and the Ed. D. degree from Columbia University. In 1990 she was a finalist in the first Detroit Symphony African-American Composers’ Competition. She has been a recipient of the ASCAP Standards Panel Annual Award every year since 1990. Her compositions have been performed by Lilan Parrot, Triad Chorale, Wilson Moorman, LonGar Ebony Ensemble, the Woodhill Chamber Ensemble, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, After Dinner Opera Company, Sandra Billingslea, the Plymouth Chorus and Orchestra, the Cygnus Chamber Ensemble, and the Moravian Philharmonic. She has been commissioned by the Plymouth Chorus and Orchestra of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Cygnus Chamber Ensemble, Rejoicensemble and North/South Consonance of New York. Ms. Moorman was a winner of the Vienna Modern Masters 1998 Millennium Commission Competition. The awards included a concert performance, recording and publication of an orchestral work for international distribution. She received honorable mention in the International Alliance for Women in Music Competition for the Year 2000 Women of Color Commission. And she received a performance award in the Andy Warhol Composers’ Competition sponsored by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in August 2000. She is included in Helen Walker-Hill’s Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano Music (Hildegard, 1992), Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalogue of Solo and Ensemble Works (Greenwood Press, 1992), and Music by Black Women Composers: A Bibliography of Available Scores ( Center for Black Music Research, 1995). Also she is in Evelyn White’s Choral Music by African-American Composers (Scarecrow Press, 1996). In 1997 she was appointed by the Governor of New York to the Advisory Music Panel for the New York State Council on the Arts. In 2003 she was presented with the June Jordan Award by Pen and Brush, Inc. for excellence in the arts and the perpetuation of African American culture. In 2004 her opera "Elegies for the Fallen" received a special commendation from the Nancy Van de Vate International Opera Competition for Women Composers. Currently she is an Associate Professor in the Music and Art Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Jazz Sonatina 1.	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	00:02:00	Jazz Sonatina 1.
Jazz Sonatina 2.	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	00:01:42	Jazz Sonatina 2.
Jazz Sonatina 3.	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2008	00:01:23	Jazz Sonatina 3.
1. Backyard	Keyboard	2002	00:02:15
2. Backyard	Keyboard	2002	00:02:00
3. Backyard	Keyboard	2002	00:01:35
8:45 A.M., 9/11/01	Electronic Instruments and Sound Sources	2002	00:04:24
The Cat	Keyboard	2000	00:02:00
Tone poem for victims of racism and hatred, A	Orchestra	1998	00:06:18
Overture to Sing My People	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1980	00:02:03
1.Sonatina for Flute, Cello and Piano	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1971	00:03:00
2. Sonatina for Flute, Piano and Cello	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1971	00:02:00
3. Sonatina for Flute, Piano and Cello	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1971	00:00:02


Africa Meets North America Mezzo Soprano, Piano, Percussion	10/24/2009 03:00 PM Jan Popper Theater, University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles California us	Phone: Email: Web:amna.ethnomusic.ucla.edu
Africa Meets North America World premiere of Jazz Sonatina for flute, piano and drumset	10/22/2009 07:30 PM Jan Popper Theater, University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles California us	Phone: Email: Web:amna.ethnomusic.ucla.edu
Women of African Descent in the Arts Awards will be presented to African American women artists.	3/15/2009 02:00 PM Pen and Brush, Inc. 16 E. 10th Street New York New York 10003 us	Phone:212-475-3669 Email: Web:www.penandbrush.org
13th International Festival of New Music for Orchestra and Chorus Performance of "Exposition" from "Dream Variations" for soprano solo, chorus, flute, piano and drumset	7/4/2008 06:00 PM University for Music and Performing Arts Joseph Haydn Saal Anton von Webern Platz 1 Vienna 1030 at	Phone: Email:moorman@verizon.net Web:

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