Samuel Hazo

Samuel Robert Hazo (born 1966) is an American composer, primarily of music for concert band.

Biography Hazo is the son of the poet and playwright Samuel John Hazo and his wife, Mary Anne. After elementary and secondary schooling in the Upper St. Clair School District, He taught music in the Upper St. Clair School District. Arabesque (Commissioned by the Indiana Bandmasters' Association for the 2008 All-State Honor Band) Ascend (Movement III of Georgian Suite)] As Winds Dance Autumn on White Lake (Commissioned by Lakeland High School Wind Ensemble in 2008) Blessings Blue and Green Music (Based on the painting by Georgia O'Keeffe) Books with Blank Pages: Clarinet Concerto (Commissioned by Robinson High School in memory of John "Jack" Stewart and Laura Onwudinanti) Bridges (Commissioned by Virginia Tech in memory of the victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007) For Heaven And The Future From Gold ...GO In Flight In Heaven's Air Jubilateo (Commissioned February 2012 by the Calgary Stampede Showband) Keltic Variations Minuet Mountain Thyme Novo Lenio Olympiada Our Kingsland Spring (Movement I of Georgian Suite) Our Yesterdays Lengthen Like Shadows (Commissioned by the South Carolina Band Director's Association for the 2008 All-State Honor Band) Parkour (Commissioned by the East Winds Symphonic Band, premiered November 6, 2011) 2003 - Perthshire Majesty — winner of the 2003 National Band Association William D. Rivelli Memorial Composition Contest Rising Star Rivers (Movement II of Georgian Suite) Rush (Noted in the score by Hazo to be Ride Part II) Seconds Out (Commissioned by Canon McMillan Middle School for the Symphonic Band in 2012) Sevens Síoraí September (Commissioned by the Notre Dame Concert Band, premiered May 11, 2010 at Carnegie Hall) Sky is Waiting (2006) Sòlas Ané (Yesterday's Joy) Southern Hymn (Commissioned by Providence High School Wind Ensemble, Charlotte, NC in memory of Neil Rasmussen) Stella Maris (Commissioned by The Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music and the friends and family of Marissa Alp). World Premier Performance conducted by Samuel Hazo, December 10, 2013, at the Lovinger Theatre, Lehman College, Bronx, NY. Their Blossoms Down Today is the Gift Three Concert Fanfares Three Minnesota Portraits: (Commissioned by the Edina High School Concert Band) Movement One: Hennepin County Dawn (Shrouds of Snow) Movement Two: Rest Movement Three: Across the Halfpipe Themes from Handel's "Water Music" Themes from Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusick" Voices of the Sky Whisper to Their Souls (based on Greensleeves) (Commissioned by the Eastside High School Band, in Covington, GA, in memory of their director's father. Thomas S. Fowler passed away on Christmas Eve, 2004, after serving as Santa Claus at Ross Park Mall in Pittsburgh, PA.)