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Will Healy (born February 15, 1990) is an American composer, pianist, and artistic director of ShoutHouse, an orchestral hip-hop collective.




Biography






= Early life and education

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Healy attended New York City's Loyola School. He completed his Bachelor's of Music degree from Vassar College and received the W.K. Rose Fellowship in Creative Arts and the Jean Slater Edson Prize for his chamber work "Hashima". He obtained a Master's of Music in composition at The Juilliard School where he studied with John Corigliano, Steven Stucky, and Samuel Adler and was recipient of the Richard Rodgers Scholarship




= Musical career

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Healy's work has been performed at The Apollo Theater, the New York Philharmonic's Biennial series, the Aspen Music Festival, on "New Sounds" with John Schaefer (WNYC) and "Making Music" (WBAI), The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet, (le) Poisson Rouge, and Midsummer's Music. In 2021, he worked with Kanye West on his album Donda as an arranger, transcriber, and director on live performances. His commissions include Copland House, the Great Lakes Chamber Festival, Novus New Music, Kyo Shin-An Arts, Robert Fleitz and Carrie Frey, Nancy Allen, and others. In 2018, Healy's work, "Kolmanskop," was presented by EarShot (the National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network) and the Jacksonville Symphony. He was also composer in residence at Midsummer's Music in 2021.
In 2014, Healy founded ShoutHouse, a collaborative artistic project and band made up of four composers, five rappers, three jazz soloists, and more than a dozen classical musicians. Their first full length album, "Cityscapes," was released by New Amsterdam Records in 2019.




Awards and honors


As a composer and arranger, Healy is the recipient of awards including the 2023 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award, a 2017 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the W.K. Rose Fellowship, a JFund commission from the American Composers Forum, Musiqa's inaugural Emerging Composer Commission Program, prizes in the Juilliard and Kaleidoscope Orchestra Composition Competitions.




Selected works






= Large Ensemble

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Passages (2023) for singer, two emcees, instrumental soloists and wind ensemble
Orbits (2022) for chorus, emcee, instrumental soloists and large ensemble
Future Caprices (2019) for string orchestra
Kolmanskop (2016) for large orchestra




= Chamber

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Root Position (2023) for piano quartet
Mariners (2022) for clarinet, violin, and piano
Small Spaces (2022) for flute, vibraphone, viola, and cello
Machine Learning (2020) for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano
Threats/Threads (2020) for saxophone quartet
Highwire (2019) for octet
Sonata for Saxophone and Piano (2018) for alto saxophone and piano
Speaking (2015) for soprano saxophone and piano
Upper West Stomp (2015) for saxophone octet (SSAATTBB)
Synapses for Wind Quintet (2013) for wind quintet




= Instrumental Solo

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Omens (2017) for solo piano
The Wisher (2017) for solo harp
Prelude for Rrita (2016) for solo piano
Etudes for Melancholy Robots (2014-2017) for solo piano
Nocturnes for Jamie (2013) for solo piano
Orbit (2012) for solo harp




= Choral

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Scrawl (2019) for SSAATTBB a cappella
Tell Me (2019) for SSAATTBB and piano




= Cityscapes (2019)

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Mannahatta (2016)
Hudson Drones (2017)
Grand Central (2015)
ANTS (2015)
Rebuild (2016)




= ShoutHouse, Music of Will Healy (2015)

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The Song I Wanted to Hear (2014)
Fully Mechanized (2014)
Light (2014)
On Lucid Dreams (2014)
Meet Halfway




References






External links


Official Website

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• All Kinds of Everything
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• The Secret Life of Pets 2
• Will Healy (composer)
• Matty Healy
• Scott Healy
• The Nice Guys
• George Daniel
• About You (The 1975 song)
• List of songs by Matty Healy
• I'm in Love with You (The 1975 song)
• It's Not Living (If It's Not with You)
• Living for the Weekend (The Saturdays album)