Vendor: Justin Merritt Music

Justin Merritt Music

Composer Justin Merritt was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation Rudolph Nissim Award. He is also the winner of a host of other awards including the McKnight Fellowship, the Copland Award, and the Polyphonos Prize. His music has been played by the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, and on A Prairie Home Companion.

His evening length cantata, The Path, was premiered at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis in April 2018. The work is a setting of a collection of Buddhist Pali scriptures translated by the composer and set for multiple choirs, soloists, and large orchestra.

He received his Bachelors from Trinity University and his Masters and Doctorate from Indiana University. He studied composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandstrom, Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund, and electronic and computer music with Jeffrey Hass. He is currently Professor and Chair of Music at St. Olaf College. He resides in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife Faye and their children Cullen Fang Ouxiang and Molly Fang Qinghe.

5 Preludes

A Gauze of Misted Silver

A London Thoroughfare, 2AM

Adoro Te Devote

Agnus Dei

Album Leaves

Album Leaves for Piano and Solo Instrument

Bar for Hans Sachs

Blender Project

Broken Consort

Chaconne: Mercy Endures

Corde Natus

Coupling

Cube Dance

Dissonance

Drum Break

Ephemera

Five Prophecies

Halloween Blizzard

House on the Hill

Inferno

Invocation

Ithaka

Janus Mask

Klang

Lachryme

Lamentations

Lamentations