Acknowledgements

Raphael Fusco, Transcriber-Arranger

Raphael Fusco (b. 1984) is in high demand as a composer, keyboardist, and conductor in America and in Europe. A native of New Jersey, he began his piano studies at age eight and composed his first pieces when he was ten. His catalog includes over 100 compositions of vocal, chamber, and orchestral music. A specialist in early music and modern improvisation, his musical language combines jazz and pop sonorities with gestures and techniques of the Baroque and Classicals eras. The Hartford Courant praised his music as “full of energy and lyricism” and El Mundo noted Mr. Fusco as “one of the most outstanding emerging composers.” Mr. Fusco is professor of analysis, piano, music history and composition at Seton Hall University and Mahanaim College and serves organist for the historic Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan. He holds degrees in composition from Mannes College of Music and G. Verdi Conservatorio of Turin where he studied with Carl Schachter, David Loeb, Arthur Hass and Giulio Castagnoli. He also studied piano with Laszlo Gereb at the Vienna Konservatorium and analysis, harmony and fugue with disciples of Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Schola Cantorum. For more please visit www.raphaelfusco.com