Carlyle Sharpe

Carlyle Sharpe is professor of music in theory and composition at Drury University. His works have attracted numerous performances and prizes including those from the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center, the Edinburgh International Festival, Trinity Wall Street, the San Diego Symphony, the American Guild of Organists, ECS Publishing and the Holtkamp Organ Company. Various commissions include those from the Seraphim Singers (Boston), Gargoyle Brass (Chicago), Providence Singers, and the Olympic Quartet for the 2002 Winter Olympics Festival Concerts celebrating the Cultural Olympiad. His works have been broadcast over WGBH Radio-Boston, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and in national broadcasts by the Mormon Tabernacle choir and have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. He is published by ECS Publishing, Hinshaw Music, Inc. and Colla Voce Music, Inc., and holds the BM summa cum laude and MM in composition from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the DMA in composition from Boston University.