Shawn Crouch

Gramophone Magazine has praised Shawn Crouch as a “gifted composer,” while The New York Times describes his music as “gnarling atonal energy.” The Miami Herald hailed his Road from Hiroshima: A Requiem as “a staggering achievement, an imaginative, powerful and deeply moving work.” Most recently, his Visions and Ecstasies: A Mass was named “Best New Work” by the South Florida Classical Review.

Crouch has received grants and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The American Prize, ASCAP, BMI, Yale University, Meet the Composer, NewMusicUSA, and the Percussive Arts Society. He was also the inaugural recipient of the Dale Warland Singers Commissioning Award from Chorus America and the American Composers Forum.

His works have been commissioned and performed by ensembles across the United States, Canada, and Europe, including the Cleveland Orchestra, American Modern Ensemble, California E.A.R. Unit, Chanticleer, Del Sol String Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Phoenix Chorale, Prism Quartet, Seraphic Fire, Splinter Reeds, Variant 6, and Volti, among many others.

Crouch earned his B.Mus. in composition from the New England Conservatory with honors and distinction in performance, his M.Mus. from the Yale School of Music, and his D.M.A. from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. A BMI-affiliated composer, he is Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Composition and Theory at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he directs Ensemble Ibis. He also serves as Executive Artistic Director of IlluminArts, a Miami-based organization presenting site-specific collaborations with museums, galleries, and community partners.