about the composer

Carl Schroeder of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a graduate of St. Olaf College, writes music for concert band, orchestra, choir, chamber ensembles and piano that often draws inspiration from American history and current events. His large ensemble works have been performed by more than 30 concert bands, orchestras and choirs, including the Air Force Band of Mid-America and Ukraine's Chamber Choir Kyiv.

Schroeder has studied composition primarily with Timothy Mahr and Peter Hamlin, and has also taken lessons with composers Mark Camphouse, Donald Grantham and Dana Wilson. In 2001, he was named "Composer with Most Potential" by the Minnesota Music Educators Association, and in 2004 he was one of three under-25 American composers chosen to participate in the National Band Association’s Young Composer Mentor Project. In 2006 his choral work Two December Carols received the ERM Media Masterworks Prize. He composed The Eagle's Island in 2001 and revised the work on a 2007 commission.

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AWARDS &  HONORS
First Place, 2002 Minnesota Music Educators Association Collegiate Composition Competition

CONCERT PERFORMANCES
June 3, 2001: Minneapolis Southwest High School Wind Ensemble; Keith Liuzzi, conductor - Minneapolis, MN premiere
October 23, 2007: Minneapolis Southwest High School Wind Ensemble; Keith Liuzzi, conductor - Minneapolis, MN

RECORDINGS
The Minnesota Portraits and other music by Carl Schroeder - St. Olaf Norseman Band; Paul Niemisto, conductor