Bio

Casey Hale is a composer and guitarist. Called by the Cleveland Plain Dealer "a skilled craftsman with a keen ear for colorful and yearning sonic possibilities," he has worked primarily in the context of orchestral and chamber music, and has written for the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra and the Da Capo Chamber Players, among others. As an instrumentalist, he has performed repertoire from the 15th century to the present in a broad range of styles, playing guitar and lute as a soloist and with ensembles both small and large. His composition teachers have included Joan Tower, Margaret Brouwer, Tania León, David Del Tredici, Zhou Long and Lee Hyla; he has studied guitar with David Leisner, Luis Garcia-Renart, Gregory Dinger and Christopher Laughlin, and lute with Richard Kolb. He received his BA from Bard College and his MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music; he currently lives in New York City, where he is pursuing his PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center and teaching at Brooklyn College.

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