Composers Bureau

Dr. Robert Boury

• 2002 - Composition student Philip Gordon won the Beyer Award for Music Composition ($4000) and performed his songs at the National Convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs.
• East Coast premiere of Boury's comic opera Bowl, Cat and Broomstick at West Park Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, performed by the New York Metro Vocal Ensemble.
• 2001 - Premiere of Boury's Folk Symphony for string orchestra at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Manhattan, by the Antara Ensemble. The composer's Poem for flute and piano and the song group, American Names were performed at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California.
• 2000 - Premieres and performances by the Boston recorder ensemble Windsong, The International Poetry Forum, the University of Colorado, the Music at the Mansion series, Oglebay Park, West Virginia - by the Conway String Orchestra (High School), and at New Mexico State University.
  
• 1999 - The art song group, American Names was performed at Redlands University, and at the Roerich Museum in New York.
  
• 1995 - Visiting artist in songwriting to Public Schools K-6. The composer teaches the core curriculum through songwriting and a different continent each year.
  
• 1981 - Resident composer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock.