Rachel DeVore Fogarty

Composer

Years at Source: 2015
Biography: Rachel DeVore Fogarty's works have been commissioned, awarded and performed by organizations in the U.S. and internationally, including ACDA, KMEA, IAWM, NATS, the Bryan Symphony, the Oak Ridge Symphony, St. Olaf College, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, SACRA/PROFANA, Oklahoma State University, University of Kentucky, Conundrum, Tapestry Singers, Muse (Cincinnati Women's Ensemble), Making Waves (Ukraine), the Young New Yorkers' Chorus, the Concert Chorale of Nashville, the Astoria Choir, Fresh Squeezed Opera Company NYC, the Six Degree Singers, the Astoria Music Project, the Princeton Girlchoir, Dulciana (Ireland), Voces Inauditae (Scotland), the Luna Nova Music Ensemble, Roane Choral Society with the Marble City Opera Company, the Sparks & Wiry Cries SongSlam, the Pittsburgh Compline Choir, the Capital Hearings and VocalEssence. Her works have been chosen for inclusion in Vox Reflexa's New Millennium Composers project, the Cro Patria Choir Festival, and in the London Contemporary Church Music Festival. Her string quartet, sky darkening early, was selected as part of a reading session with the Grammy-nominated JACK Quartet. A transplant from East Tennessee, she lives in Astoria, NY with her husband, Kevin Fogarty and gray cat, Haydn.
Website: www.racheldevorefogarty.com
Source Moment: Friendship with fellow composers, especially roomie Jessica Rudman ; also the text setting workshop with Libby Larsen and honestly all of the concerts.