Composer Profile: Conrad Winslow
Conrad Winslow holds an M.M. degree in composition and film scoring from NYU, where he was a student of Justin Dello Joio, and an Honors A.B. degree in music from Rollins College, where he studied composition with Daniel Crozier. He composed the annual commencement music for the college and wrote music for theater. Winslow has also composed music for student films and The Last Romantic (2006), which went to several film festivals, including SXSW and the Independent Film Festival Boston. Conrad was a participant in the American Composers Orchestra’s Underwood New Music Readings in 2008, where Brad Lubman conducted his piece The Violence of Ragtime. He collaborated with Natalie Weiss (of experimental art-pop project Unicornicopia) and Travis Stewart (Machinedrum) on Camp Wanatachi, the musical commissioned by Ian Pai (co-founder of the Blue Man Group) presented in the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. He will continue graduate studies in composition with John Corigliano at the Juilliard School this fall.