Edwin Penhorwood (born 1939) is an American composer who is an assistant professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Biography

Penhorwood is a native of Toledo, Ohio, and studied music at the University of Iowa. He has taught at the International School of Zurich, Switzerland, at the Church Music Conservatory in Berlin, the University of Missouri, and Indiana University, and has accompanied singers and instrumentalists in North America and in Europe for many years. Penhorwood joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1993. He is the musical director of the Graduate Opera Workshop and has taught Accompanying.

Edwin Penhorwood

Penhorwood is the composer of many choral and vocal compositions. Penhorwood's songs have been broadcast by NPR, the Paris and Berlin radio networks and have been featured at Glimmerglass Opera, The Chautauqua Opera, the National NATS Convention, and Marilyn Horne's 70th Birthday Celebration. In 1999, the Indianapolis Symphonic Chorus, through the Lilly Foundation, presented Penhorwood with a commission for a choral work, The Christmas Story. Penhorwood's compositions have been published by Carl Fischer, Abingdon, Hinshaw Music, and T.I.S. Publications. In 2000, T.I.S., Inc. published his songs and song cycles.

Edwin Penhorwood

ECS Publishing published Penhorwood's comic opera Too Many Sopranos, commissioned by the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre and premiered in June 2000. The opera, now in its fifth printing, has been presented at the NATS Convention and The National Opera Association National Convention in New York City. It has received over 80 productions, most recently at The Baltimore Opera and Light Opera Oklahoma. In March 2008, the Hunter College Opera staged a new production of the opera, performed at the Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York City.

Edwin Penhorwood

Penhorwood has edited two volumes of Vincenzo Righini's vocal works for Southern Music. Many of these compositions received their American premières at the 2nd International Congress of Voice Teachers held in Philadelphia.

He is married to soprano Costanza Cuccaro.

References

First United Church Biography

Boston Skirt! article on Too Many Sopranos

PDF of University of Western Ontario's production of Too Many Sopranos

External links

Indiana University biography

Biography at T.I.S. Music Catalog

Too Many Sopranos reviewed by T.I.S. Music Catalog

Indiana University on Too Many Sopranos

20th-century classical composers

21st-century classical composers

American male classical composers

American classical composers

American opera composers

Male opera composers

University of Iowa alumni

1939 births

Living people

Musicians from Toledo, Ohio

Indiana University faculty

University of Missouri faculty

21st-century American composers

20th-century American composers

Classical musicians from Ohio

20th-century American male musicians

21st-century American male musicians