Composition
Composer (cellist and conductor), PAUL BRANTLEY, is a seven-time MacDowell Fellow who has
received fellowships from Banff Centre and Anderson Center.
Brantley has enjoyed recent performances of his music by Boyd Meets Girl, Flux Quartet,
Horszowski Trio, The Knights (at Tanglewood, BRIC, Dumbarton Oaks and Naumburg Concerts),
classical guitarist Dan Lippel, Memphis Symphony, Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, New Esterházy
Quartet, RiverArts Ensemble, and flutist Alice Teyssier. His cello concertino, The Royal Revolver, was
premiered in 2017 by Eric Jacobsen (The Knights) and the University of Michigan Symphony
conducted by Kenneth Kiesler. Filles de l’Élysée was released on the 2022 Boyd Meets Girl CD (Sono
Luminous/Naxos). His Aliénor Competition commission, Yeeremynd for solo harpsichord, was
premiered by Steve Beck in June 2022 at HKANA, The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra,
with soprano Jennifer Zetlan, gave the 25th anniversary performance of his On the Pulse of Morning
also in June 2022. Brantley recently received a 2023 Centennial Commission from The Curtis
Institute of Music.
Brantley has given composition seminars at Yale School of Music, Hunter College, Gabriel Fauré
Conservatoire (Angoulême), University of Michigan and University School of Music and University
of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Brantley co-founded the Seal Bay Festival and was
artist faculty at Yellow Barn Music Festival for many years. In addition to positions at Syracuse
University and Washington and Lee University, Brantley was Manhattan School of Music artist
faculty from 2000 to 2014. His music is published by Oxford University Press and Bill Holab Music.