Discipline: Music Composition

Marc Satterwhite

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Louisville, KY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995
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Marc Satterwhite’s music has been performed in diverse venues all over the United States, as well as in Europe, England, Australia, the Americas, South Africa, Japan, Hong Kong, China and South Korea. Among the groups that have performed and recorded his works are the Boston Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the Verdehr Trio, eighth blackbird, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Core Ensemble, Tales & Scales, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the London Composers Ensemble, Percussion Group Falsa, tubist Gene Pokorny, and clarinetist Richard Nunemaker. He has received residencies at many artist colonies, including MacDowell and Yaddo, and lectured at colleges and conservatories both in the U.S. and abroad. He is a graduate of Michigan State University and Indiana University and was for several years a professional orchestral bassist before switching his emphasis to composition. He has taught in Texas, Indiana, and Michigan and is professor of composition and music theory at the University of Louisville School of Music where, in addition to his teaching duties, he directs the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. At MacDowell, Marc worked on a number of chamber pieces, including And What Rough Beast…? for tuba and percussion, recorded by Chicago Symphony tubist Gene Pokorny with CSO percussionist Ted Atkatz on the Summit label. It has been played all over the U.S. and in several other countries.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Marc Satterwhite worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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