Julia Scott Carey:
Biography
This early work for clarinet, violin
and cello was written for the
Baverstam Family Players
who perform it here.
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Julia Scott Carey began her formal musical training in piano and theory at the age of six
with Barbara Roth-Donaldson. At seven, she also studied harpsichord with Jim Nicolson,
president of the Cambridge Early Music Society, and became a student at the Longy
School of Music, studying composition and theory with Howard Frazin, Phil Ratliff and
Patsy Sampson. For eight years, Julia attended the New England Conservatory of Music,
where she was a composition student of Rodney Lister. Julia's private piano teacher at the
Conservatory is Sergey Schepkin. At her graduation from the New England Conservatory
Preparatory School, Julia received the Lanier Prize, becoming the first composition
student elected most outstanding graduating senior by faculty vote. Julia is presently a
sophomore at Harvard College and one of the first students accepted into in the newly
created New England Conservatory - Harvard University combined degree program (AB
Harvard 2008 / MM NEC 2009). She studies composition with Lee Hyla at the New
England Conservatory.
Julia has received a number of awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers (ASCAP), beginning with a citation for a three-movement string quartet
written at age nine. She has received seven consecutive Morton Gould Young Composers
Awards for a variety of orchestral works, and ASCAPlus Awards for the past four years.
Other national prizes include the Marilyn K. Glick Young Composers Showcase Award, the
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts Young Composer Award (Second Place),
the Harvard Music Association Composition Award, and the National Music Teachers
Association Composition Award. Julia received awards in the International Young
Composers Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1998, 1999 and 2002. Closer to home,
she has received composition prizes from the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association,
the New England Pianoforte Teachers Association and the Rivers School of Music
Contemporary Music Seminar. In 2001, Julia was chosen as a Pinnacle Scholar by the
American Psychological Association (her mentor is conductor Beatrice Affron) and also
was awarded a fellowship from the Davidson Institute for her achievements in music. Julia
was one of four young composers invited to the National Youth Orchestra Festival in
2002. Julia is the principal guest composer of the Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra for
the 2004-2005 season (her new piano concerto premiered with that orchestra on May 15,
2005) and is one of six Boston-based composers commissioned by the Bank of
America-Celebrity Series Rainbow Hexameron project, which premiered in the Jordan Hall
recital of Sergey Schepkin on April 16, 2005.
The Theodore Presser Company has published Julia's Pas de deux, a three-movement
work for violin and piano, and presently offers seven of Julia's orchestral scores through
its catalogue. Further information concerning Julia's compositions and their availability,
commissions, and awards is available at the web site for Theodore Presser Company, in
the Composers Gallery (www.presser.com/composers/carey.htm).
