Anthony Barrese

BMI award-winning work: Very Dangerous Banjo, for banjo and chamber ensemble
Anthony Barrese was born in Chicago in 1975 and is the son of Marie and Robert Barrese of Medfield, Massachusetts. He received a B.M. degree cum laude in composition in 1997 from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a M.M. degree in composition in 1999 from the New England Conservatory (NEC). He has studied composition with Robert Ceely, Timothy Kramer and Roberto Andreoni, guitar with David Underwood, and piano with April Abraham. Barrese was the 1996 winner of the Carolyn Calvert Scholarship for study abroad at the Institute for European Studies, and received an "honorable mention" in the BMG National Young Composers Competition in 1997. In 1999, he was the winner of the NEC Contemporary Ensemble Composition Competition and received a grant from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund for one year of study in Milan, Italy. His music has been performed at the 1998 SCI Convention in Bloomington and on numerous occasions in Boston, San Antonio, and Milan, Italy.