Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma presents:
 

Samuel Magrill

Samuel Magrill, composer, is a Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma.

He received a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and a Masters and Doctorate from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. His composition teachers have included Joseph Wood, Randolph Coleman, Ben Johnston, Edwin London, Herbert Brün and Kenneth Gaburo.

He has received numerous awards and commissions, including ones from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Music Center, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Illinois Arts Council, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), the Oklahoma Music Teachers’ Association, the American Composers’ Forum’s Continental Harmony program and faculty research grants and merit credit awards from the University of Central Oklahoma.

In May of 1995, he performed his music at the Theremin Center, a computer music studio at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1997, he was chosen as the Hauptman Fellow for the College of Liberal Arts at UCO. In the spring of 2000, he was inducted into SAI as an Arts Associate and won the AAUP-UCO Distinguished Creativity Award for his work in opera. His fourth opera, Circe's Palace (2000) received its premiere in February 2001. His works have been performed throughout the United States and Australia.