David P. Sartor - Music

Music

Sartor is the composer of Synergistic Parable for Symphonic Band, for which he won the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Award for Symphonic Band Music, and Polygon for Brass Quintet, which received the National Fine Arts Award. Other notable works include Metamorphic Fanfare, commissioned by the Knoxville, TN Symphony Orchestra, Thy Light Is Come for chorus, organ, brass and timpani, commissioned by Christ Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tennessee and showcased at the Washington National Cathedral by the Cathedral Choral Society, Black Ball Counts Double for String Orchestra, which received a commendation in England's Oare International Composing Competition, Reveries for String Orchestra, winner of the Burlington (VT) Chamber Orchestra's 2009 Composer Competition and a Finalist in the Fauxharmonic Orchestra's Adagio Composition Contest, and Concerto for Orchestra, a Finalist in the Columbia Symphony Orchestra's American Composer Competition. Most recently, he received double honors in the 2012 American Prizes, national awards celebrating American excellence in the arts, garnering Third Place in the Choral Composition Division with his "Thy Light Is Come" and Finalist status in the Orchestral Composition Division with his "Portent and Apotheosis."

Sartor's compositions have been recognized with more than two dozen awards from ASCAP, Meet The Composer, Delta Omicron and New Music for Young Ensembles, among others. His music has been featured at the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festivals, the International Double Bass Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the International Music Festival in San Jose Costa Rica, The World's Largest Organ Concert, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and at Carnegie Hall, with broadcast performances on National Public Radio and local affiliates. As Guest Composer, Conductor and Lecturer his engagements include the Washington National Cathedral, Illinois State University, Middle Tennessee State University, the Nexus Chamber Orchestra and California State University, sponsored by New York City’s Meet The Composer Foundation. In addition to his concert music activities Sartor is an alumnus of the acclaimed Steven Scott Smalley Film Scoring Workshop as well as a recent workshop with Richard Glasser & Aaron Zigman and, to date, he has scored more than two dozen widely-distributed video documentaries and features.

In June 2007, Sartor was awarded the Thor Johnson Memorial Commission by the Delta Omicron Foundation. The Johnson Commission, awarded every three years to a distinguished concert music composer, funds the creation of a new work to be featured at the organization’s Triennial Conference. Sartor's work for string quartet, Passages, was premiered on July 17, 2009 at the 2009 Triennial Conference by the Atlantis String Quartet; the performance also coincided with and celebrated the 100th anniversary of Delta Omicron. Following the premiere, Sartor was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron in recognition of his accomplishments as a composer and conductor.

Sartor's works are recorded on the ERM Media label and are published by E.C. Schirmer, Shawnee Press, and Metamorphic Music. He currently resides in Middle Tennessee with his wife, the author Nancy Sartor.