Mary Ann Joyce
Mary Ann Joyce
born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Mary Ann Joyce received her M.A. and Ph.D. in composition and theory from Washington University, St. Louis where she studied with Robert Wykes, Rosalyn Tureck, Paul Pisk, and Robert Baker.
In 1974 she moved to New York City to work with Dorothy Day at the Catholic Worker, and has remained in the New York area where she is an active composer and a Professor of Music at Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York. Her works have been performed throughout the United States, especially in the New York area, in Europe, and in Russia. Her latest major works are Cantata for the Children of Terezin (settings of poetry by the children of Therezianstadt) for Orchestra, SATB, and children's choir, Famine Sequence, chamber music on texts by the Irish poet, Desmond Egan, and Aceldama for flute and strings.
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