SHREVE, Georgia

  New York-based American composer Georgia Shreve is a respected contemporary artist. As a composer, Shreve's creative voice, passion for music, words and visual imagery, combined with her interest in poignant, timeless themes and exploring the nature of relationships, has resulted in a growing body of compelling, dynamic works for orchestra, voice and small ensemble. Her settings of original texts and texts by renowned poets and writers have been performed by the Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, American Opera Projects, and singers and musicians who regularly perform on top orchestral, operatic, Off-Broadway and Broadway stages. Her music has been performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill and Zankel Halls, Cami Hall, Steinway Hall, and National Sawdust in New York City and at the UK's Royal Over-Seas League in London, to name a few. A versatile, triple threat, Shreve's interests not only are in music, but span the written word and film.