Michael J. Veloso

Michael J. Veloso (b. 1977) was born in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his B.A. in Music in 1998 from Williams College, where he studied composition with Lewis Spratlan, Robert Suderburg, Karl Korte, and David Kechley. After graduating Cum Laude and with Highest Honors in Music, he continued his education at New England Conservatory, earning an M.M. in 2001 and Graduate Diploma in 2002 while studying composition with Michael Gandolfi and piano with Douglas Buys. Michael has written dozens of works for a wide range of musical forces. He has composed music for Joshua Lawton, David Stansbury, Sharon Hsin-Yi Chen, Fireworks, New Century Voices, and Roseae Feminae, and has received commissions from the NOW Ensemble and the Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus. His setting of E.E. Cummings’s poem love is the every only god was recently awarded First Prize in Singing City’s annual choral competition. For four years, Michael was General Manager of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, a Boston-based chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of new music. For two years, he hosted a two-hour show on public radio called “Bouquets of Drone” on which he broadcast electronica and all kinds of classical music. He has also accompanied for Allegra Martin’s New Century Voices, a chorus focused on performing 20th- and 21st-century music. A full-length CD of his chamber music is scheduled for release in early 2009.