Michael Braz**

Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University, Michael Braz chairs the theory-composition area. He recently completed a term as Charter President of the Coastal Georgia Alumni Association of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. In January 2005, Braz presented a choral composing workshop to school choir directors at the Georgia Music Educators 2006 In-Service Conference in Savannah. He is currently completing the orchestration of a two-act opera concerning racial politics in 1941 Georgia and the firing of a respected college president by the populist governor of the state. The work, A Scholar Under Siege, is Braz’s second opera, and will be premiered spring 2007 as a part of Georgia Southern’s Centennial celebration. Currently, Dr. Braz has 18 compositions and arrangements in print, published by Hinshaw and Colla Voce. He can be contacted at (912) 681-5397 (school) or at  mbraz@georgiasouthern.edu.

Premieres

A setting of Deep River was commissioned by Musical Director Thomas Sibley for the Raleigh Boychoir; the premiere performance was conducted by the composer at the Boychoir’s American Music Festival in 2005.

Publications

The Heavens Are Telling (Haydn, arr. 2-part), originally written for the Statesboro (GA) Youth Chorale; Hinshaw Music.

Recordings

 Holidays With Friends, eleven arrangements and performances by the composer.

**Sigma Alpha Iota Friend of the Arts

Further Information

• 2003-2004 American Composers Update
• 2002-2003 American Composers Update
• 2001-2002 American Composers Update
• 2000-2001 American Composers Update
• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update