Melissa Pausina composer
Melissa Pausina was born in New Orleans in 1975. She studied composition with Matthew Greenbaum, Barbara Jazwinski, and Dinos Constantinides and holds the degrees of Doctor of Musical Arts from Temple University, Master of Arts from Tulane University, and a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University.
She composes orchestral, chamber, electro-aucoustic and vocal music. Her chamber opera "Bartleby", inspired by Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street", received its premier in NYC.
Dr. Pausina is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including American Composers Forum Pascal Gallois Bassoon Competition and American Composers Forum New Voices Competition. She was also a fellow at the Oregon Bach Festival's Composer Symposium and at the Darmstadt International Institute for New Music.
Her works have been internationally performed/presented/commissioned by Cygnus Ensemble (NYC), Ensemble Surplus (Freiburg, Germany), Momenta Quartet (NYC), Composers Collaborative inc. (NYC), and the Oregon Bach Festival (Eugene, OR).