Discipline: Music Composition

Gregory D'Alessio

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Cleveland Heights, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001, 2002

Greg D’Alessio is an associate professor of music at Cleveland State University, where he is also coordinator of the electronic and computer music studios. He has received numerous honors and Fellowships in recognition of his work as a composer, including a commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, The Aaron Copland Prize, The Cleveland Arts Prize, Two Ohio Arts Council Awards, a Fellowship from The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC), and the Board of Director’s Prize from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music (SEAMUS).


Studios

MacDowell

Gregory D'Alessio worked in the MacDowell studio.

Built in 1912, Pine Studio was renamed MacDowell Studio in 1943 in recognition of support from a group of Edward MacDowell’s music students. It was built as a composers’ studio and the stuccoed walls were intended to be soundproof. Like many of the studios on property, MacDowell was winterized in the 1950s when the program began welcoming…

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