FIVE ASCAP THEATER

 MUSIC AWARDS IN A ROW!

1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 and

 2001!...as well as several

Meet-the-Composer grants

George Quincy

was born and raised in Oklahoma and is of Choctaw 

heritage. Mr. Quincy has two degrees from The Juilliard 

school and later taught there, became Musical Advisor 

to Martha Graham and went on to compose, orchestrate 

and conduct music for Theater, Dance, Film, Opera, 

Television and Concert. His music has been performed 

in Carnegie Hall, Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall and many 

other theaters in New York City.

Christmas, his album, has been re-released,

and can be found on AMAZON.COM.

THE NEW YORK 5, a chamber music group specializing 

in Mr. Quincy's music, played a concert at St. Peter's 

Church last winter, as well as Pen & Brush last October. 

Their new CD, "Torcher Chamber" has arrangements of 

torch songs for Chamber Music Ensemble and contains 

songs from the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's. These songs 

are published by Foxborough Jr. Music.

The Mummy, an opera by Mr. Quincy, was presented by

AMAS in April. Also, Home and the River, an opera of the

Civil War, written in collaboration with Benjamin Barber, was

presented by the Encompass Music Theatre at Christ and

St. Steven's Church. It was also presented in concert at the

Suffolk County College Performing Arts Series in November.

His song cycle based on the Crazy Jane Poems of 

W. B. Yeats was presented by the Yeats Society in New York 

at Columbia University. Two other concert songs based on 

the poetry of W. B. Yeats had their premier in November. 

He is currently engaged in researching a piece based on 

The Trail of Tears about the removal of the Choctaws to 

Oklahoma, then Indian Territory. 

With his wife, Thayer Bice Burch, as lyricist, Savage 

Expectations, a musical revue for Gen-X at NYU's Abe 

Burrows Theatre, opened in December at the Tisch School 

of Performing Arts directed by Sue Lawless.

Also, along with Thayer, George has composed 7 songs 

for the Times Square Bid Kidz. A group ranging from ages 

8-15 from the tri-state area. A TV pilot is being shot at this 

time for a weekly show about Kidz in Times Square. 

These songs are published by Foxborough Jr. Music. 

Mr. Quincy has just been commissioned by Rick Schussel  

to compose a ballet for New Dance Group Arts Center. 

His new Opera, The Tale of the Tell-Tale Heart (an opera 

based on the E.A. Poe story) will have a concert reading with 

orchestra sponsored by the Bronx Arts Ensemble in the Fall. 

The Encompass Opera Theater sponsored a piano reading.

THEATER  ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Passionate Extremes. Opera/Musical – 

       New York production  at St. Peter's Church

       produced by the Musical Theater Works.

Flowerstone. Musical-Drama World Premier

       at the National Theater of Denmark.

Mandrake the Magician. Musical – Lenox Arts Center. 

       This November at AMAS.

Give My Heart An Even Break. Revue – 

       Manhattan Theater Club.

Lines of Vision. Musical – St. Clements Church.

A Visit. Musical – Theater for the New City.

Life is Dream. Musical – INTAR

Sexual Perversity in Chicago. (Mamet) Incidental Music

Duck Variations. (Mamet) Incidental Music

Love and Death Play of William Inge. Incidental Music

The Sorrows of Frederick. Incidental Music

DANCE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Zodiac. London Contemporary Dance and the

       Bathsheva Company of Israel (performed in North

       and South America, Europe and the Middle East).

Wo-man. Alvin Ailey Repertory Company.

Tre. New Dance Group.

Murder in the Town Hall. (based on T.S. Eliot's

       Murder in the Cathedral) New Dance Group at

       The Museum of Natural History.

FILM ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The Heist. Feature – Nordisk Films  (Denmark)

The Messenger. Feature – Paramount  (unreleased)

Missing Parts. Documentary – Site Inc.

Splendor in the Sand. Documentary – Scaena Productions.

Death of a City. Documentary – Scaena Productions.

Does it Matter? Documentary – M. McManus Productions

TELEVISION/COMMERCIAL / INDUSTRIAL ––––––––

What a Life. (PBS)

Johnson & Johnson Corporate (winner of Silver Lion, Cannes)

Coca Cola, Tang, Palmolive, Armstrong Tire,

Time Magazine, Pier One, Place Ville Marie (in Canada)

Gentlemen's Quarterly Manstyle Awards (Radio City)

The Package and the Corporate Image, Mademoiselle

Magazine, Lever Bros, (all produced by M. P. Productions)

"George Quincy has created

an elegant collection

...for the next millenium."

–  J.B Keyboard

"The music has 

moments of great 

passion and charm.

An evening of 

extraordinary dimension."

       –  John Simon

New York Magazine

"Dazzling music!"

      – Anna Kisselgoff  

 The New York Times 

"Quincy could 

set the prose of  

the tax code  

compellingly –  

his music grabs 

you by the lapels 

and shakes you  

to attention." 

– The Village Voice

"Quincy has  

created the score  

with ravishing  

dividends."  

– The New York Times  

"Passionate Extremes  

can hold its own with 

the best of the of the 

comic repertoire!" 

– New York Post  

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