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Student Stories : Sep 22, 2015

Joshua Mazur heads up Young Composers Composition Contest through GCC

This summer, the UF Chamber Singers performed Joshua Mazur’s (Ph.D. Music Composition student) Alleluia and Picklus Pepperus: In Mermoriam of Peter Piper at the Festival Coral de Medellin in Colombia, South America. This coming year, the Gainesville Civic Chorus, of which he is associate director and composer in residence, commissioned a festival processional and Hanukkah celebration for Double Choruses and Large Orchestra for the Sounds of the Season concert, as well as a 40th Anniversary Celebratory Fanfare to open the 40th Anniversary Celebration in April. Mazur is currently administrating a Young Composers Composition Contest through the Gainesville Civic Chorus.