Tarik Ghiradella

Tarik Ghiradella - Composer

Education:

MMA, Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY

BFA, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY

Drum and Percussion studies, New York Percussion Academy, Long Island, NY

Principal Instructors:

Richard Danielpour, George Tsontakis, Samuel Zeyman, Edgar Grana, Anthony Newman

Tarik Ghiradella has written for the choir at Grace Church Brooklyn Heights, New Band, American String Quartet, Astoria Symphony, Greensboro Philharmonia and the Ebony String Quartet.  In 2008, his orchestra piece Cenotaph, premiered by Silas Huff and the Astoria Symphony, was given honorable mention by Aaron J. Kernis and the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute.  Recently the Round Rock Symphony premiered American Panoramas, a tone poem for orchestra.