Conrad Susa
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Conrad Stephen Susa, born on 26 April 1935 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, is an American composer. He was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Juilliard School, where his teachers included William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti and, so he says, P. D. Q. Bach. He is currently Chair of the Composition Department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
His compositions include choral works, incidental music for various plays and a number of operas.
Transformations will be one of the featured operas of the 2006 Wexford Opera Festival
Selected works
Operas- Transformations (1973)
- Black River (1975, revised 1981)
- The Love of Don Perlimplin (1984)
- The Wise Woman (1994)
- The Dangerous Liaisons (1994, revised 1996-97)
- Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1972)
- Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest (1992)
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