Editing David Conte (section)

==Education and career==
Conte attended public schools in [[Lakewood, Ohio]], a suburb of [[Cleveland]]. &nbsp;His earliest musical experiences were attending rehearsals of Robert Shaw’s Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, of which his mother Nancy was a member, and singing in the doo-wop vocal group Shameful and the Seven Sinners. Conte earned his bachelor's degree from [[Bowling Green State University]], where he studied with Wallace DePue, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from [[Cornell University]], where he studied with [[Karel Husa]], [[Steven Stucky]], and [[Robert Moffat Palmer]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Aloi|first=Daniel|date=2016-12-16|title=Composer Karel Husa dies at 95|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/12/composer-and-conductor-karel-husa-dies-95|access-date=2020-12-18|website=Cornell Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Glaser|first=Linda B.|date=2017-03-17|title=Concert series pays tribute to composers Stucky, Husa|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/03/concert-series-pays-tribute-composers-stucky-husa|access-date=2020-12-18|website=Cornell Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Spergal|date=2015-11-02|title=BGSU Alumnus & Composer David Conte Reminisces on 60 Years in Music|url=https://blogs.bgsu.edu/cmanews/2015/11/02/bgsu-alumnus-composer-david-conte-reminisces-on-60-years-in-music/|access-date=2020-12-18|website=Bowling Green State University}}</ref> From 1975 to 1978, he studied with [[Nadia Boulanger]] in [[Paris]] and [[Fontainebleau]], where he was one of her last students.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Caliss|first=Jeff|date=2015-10-28|title=Composer David Conte Reminisces on 60 Years in Music|url=https://www.sfcv.org/events-calendar/artist-spotlight/composer-david-conte-reminisces-on-60-years-in-music|access-date=2020-12-18|website=San Francisco Classical Voice}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Fitzsousa|first=Brian|title=David Conte Interview|url=https://sfcm.edu/david-conte-interview|access-date=2020-12-28|website=San Francisco Conservatory of Music}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Francis|first=Kimberly A.|date=2016-02-18|title=Nadia Boulanger, teaching Stravinsky to David Conte|url=https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/nadia-boulanger-teaching-stravinsky-david-conte|access-date=2020-12-28|website=OUPblog (Oxford University Press)}}</ref>

Conte has been honored as a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright scholar]] in [[Paris]], a Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellow and an [[Aspen Music Festival]] Conducting Fellow.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Adams|first=Byron|title=Vaughan Williams Essays|publisher=Ashgate|year=2003|isbn=978-1138273733|location=Aldershot, Hants|pages=15}}</ref> He has served on the faculties of [[Cornell faculty|Cornell]], [[Colgate University]], Keuka College, 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. Since 1985, Conte has been Professor of Composition at the [[San Francisco Conservatory of Music]]. From 2000 to 2014, he was conductor of the Conservatory Chorus, and in 2014, he was appointed Chair of the Composition Department.<ref>{{Cite web|title=David Conte: Chair, Composition, Technology and Applied Composition; Music History and Literature|url=https://sfcm.edu/faculty/david-conte|access-date=2020-12-19|website=San Francisco Conservatory of Music}}</ref> He served as Composer-in-Residence with the theater company Thick Description from 1991–2008, for whom he composed two chamber operas:&nbsp;''Firebird Motel'' (2003; [[David Yezzi]] librettist) and ''America Tropical'' (2007; [[Oliver Mayer]], librettist).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Firebird Motel CD Insert|url=https://albums.primephonic.com/600313015427.pdf|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Primephonic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=America Tropical|url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/america-tropical-conte-david.html|access-date=2020-12-28|website=ECS Publishing}}</ref> In 1991 he served on the faculty of the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France ([[Fontainebleau Schools]]). Conte served on the composition faculty of the European American Musical Alliance in Paris from 2011–2022. In 2011, he joined the board of the [[American Composers Forum]], serving until 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Institute Faculty|url=https://europeanamericanmusicalalliance.org/institute/faculty/|access-date=2020-12-19|website=European American Musical Alliance}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Since 2014 he has been the Composer in Residence with [[Cappella SF]], a San Francisco-based professional chorus.<ref>{{Cite web|title=David Conte, Composer in Residence|url=https://www.cappellasf.org/artist-in-residence|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Cappella SF}}</ref> In 2017, Conte travelled to the UK as the judge of the ''Caritas International Young Composer Competition'' hosted by the [[Caritas Chamber Choir]], returning again in 2019 to judge the renamed ''Caritas International Emerging Composer Competition''. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/blog/post/david-conte-composer-residence-caritas-international-composers-competition|title=David Conte - Composer-in-residence at Caritas International Composer's Competition|website=www.ecspublishing.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.caritaschamberchoir.com/competition.html|title=Competition|website=www.caritaschamberchoir.com}}</ref> In 2018, he joined the faculty of the Choral Chameleon Summer Institute for Composers and Conductors in New York City, New York.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Summer Institute for Composers and Conductors|url=https://www.choralchameleon.com/summer-institute-for-composers--conductors.html|access-date=2020-12-29|website=Choral Chameleon}}</ref> In 2022, he joined the faculty of SongFest, an annual festival dedicated to the medium of art song,<ref>{{Cite web |title=SongFest-Sorel Composer Mentorship Program June 6–11, 2022 |url=https://www.songfest.us/composer-mentorship |access-date=2022-09-25 |website=SongFest}}</ref> and in 2021–22 he served as a composer-mentor for the National Association of Teachers of Singing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The NATS Mentoring Program for Composers |url=https://www.nats.org/Mentoring_Program_for_Composers.html |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=NATS}}</ref>

In 1982, Conte lived and worked at the home of [[Aaron Copland]], where he undertook a study of the manuscript sketches of Copland’s last orchestral work, “Inscape,” which became the basis of his doctoral thesis at Cornell University.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Conte|first=David|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b61aefd482e9d6d891c291/t/5f3a1781b504254b11ebcb33/1597642635211/Conte_DMA+Thesis.pdf|title=A Study of Aaron Copland's Sketches for Inscape|publisher=Doctoral Dissertation|year=1983}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> &nbsp;Conte’s choral music has been the subject of four doctoral theses, and he is the author of articles on Copland, Vaughan Williams, and on the pedagogy of choral composition, all published in ''The Choral Journal'', the membership-based monthly publication of the American Choral Director’s Association.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Conran|first=Michael Artemus|url=https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/280405?show=full|title=A study of David Conte's secular SATB choral works with non-orchestral score complement|publisher=Doctoral Dissertation|year=2003|location=The University of Arizona}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Keating|first=Gary E.|title=In Praise of Music: A Motivation for Choral Conductors|year=2011|location=University of Miami Scholarly Repository|citeseerx=10.1.1.835.7525}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Simmons|first=Stephen A.|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b61aefd482e9d6d891c291/t/57b7896abebafbd8b0564c63/1471646116002/ConteDissertationbySimmons.pdf|title=The Published Choral Music of David Conte|publisher=Doctoral Dissertation|year=2000|location=University of South Carolina}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilkins|first=Marlen Dee|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760072455|title=An analysis of selected choral works of David Conte utilizing ensemble accompaniment|publisher=Doctoral Dissertation|year=2011|location=University of Northern Colorado|oclc=760072455}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Choral Journal|url=https://acda.org/category/choral-journal/|access-date=2020-12-21|website=American Choral Directors Association|date=29 October 2019 }}</ref>

One of his best-known works is the opera ''[[The Gift of the Magi (Conte opera)|The Gift of the Magi]]'' (Nicholas Giardini, librettist), which has received over 30 productions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Russia. His opera ''[[The Dreamers (opera)|The Dreamers]]'' (Philip Littell, librettist), led to a commission from the Oakland Symphony for ''The Journey'' (a cantata, 2001).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Journey|url=https://www.ecspublishing.com/the-journey-piano-vocal-score.html|access-date=2020-12-20|website=ECS Publishing Group}}</ref> Film scores include ''Orozco: Man of Fire'' for the PBS American Master's Series (2006), and ''Ballets Russes'' shown at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals (2005).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Orozco: Man of Fire|url=http://www.lauriecoylefilms.com/orozco.html|access-date=2020-12-20|website=Pleiades Productions Laurie Coyle Films}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ballet Russes|url=https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/balletsrusses|access-date=2020-12-20|website=Zeitgeist Films}}</ref> Other prominent works include “Fantasy for Orchestra”, and “A Copland Portrait” (orchestra and band), and ''Soliloquy'', and ''Pastorale and Toccata'' (organ). Many of his choral works have received wide acceptance, including ''Cantate Domino'', ''Invocation and Dance'', ''Ave Maria'', ''Charm me asleep'', ''Elegy for Matthew'' (in memory of Matthew Sheppard, text by John Stirling Walker), ''September Sun'' (in memory of 9/11, with text also by Walker), ''An Exhortation'' (composed for the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama), and ''Three Mexican Folk Songs''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shrock|first=Dennis|title=Choral Repertoire|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780195327786|location=New York|pages=757}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-02-09|title=Inauguration song lyrics echo Obama's words|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Inauguration-song-lyrics-echo-Obama-s-words-3176427.php|access-date=2020-12-21|website=SFGATE}}</ref>

Conte's work is represented on many commercial CD recordings, including ''Chamber Music of David Conte'' (2015) on the Albany label; ''Facing West: Choral Music of Conrad Susa and David Conte'' (2016) on the Delos Label; and ''Everyone Sang: Vocal Music of David Conte'' (2018) on the Arsis label.