David Conte

David Conte (1955-) is an American composer. He has been a Professor of Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 1985, and Composer-in-Residence with Thick Description since 1990.

Conte earned a BM from Bowling Green State University and a MFA and DMA from Cornell University, where he studied with Karel Husa and Steven Stucky. Conte studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship, and in 1982 worked with Aaron Copland while preparing a study of Copland's manuscript sketches. Conte received a Conducting Fellowship at Aspen Music Festival, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship. He has served on the faculties of Cornell University, Colgate University, and the Interlochen Center for the Arts. While at Cornell, he served as both the assistant director and acting director of the Cornell University Glee Club, for whom he composed numerous works.

Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony, and has composed songs for Barbara Bonney, Thomas Hampson, and Phyllis Bryn-Julson. He works list includes three operas, works for orchestra, and numerous pieces for solo organ, chorus and organ, solo voice and organ, and chorus and orchestra. Conte's music is published exclusively by E. C. Schirmer and his music is represented on numerous commercial CD recordings.

Operas

• Gift of the Magi
• The Dreamers
• Firebird Motel
• America Tropical