Joyce Solomon Moorman

Joyce Solomon Moorman (born May 11, 1946) is an American composer and educator.

Biography Moorman was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on May 11, 1946, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. She attended segregated public schools through high school. In 1982, she earned her doctorate from Columbia University. In 1998, she was the winner of the Vienna Modern Masters Millennium Commission Competition.

Works Moorman's work, "The Soul of Nature" premiered with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1990. She composed Race Riot, a work based on Andy Warhol's piece of the same name. It premiered in 2000 at the Pennsylvania Academy. Cape Coast Castle describes The Door of No Return in Ghana.

Her opera, Elegies for the Fallen, is based on the poetry of Rashidah Ismaili and is a commemoration of the Soweto Massacre.