Melissa Pausina composer
Melissa Pausina (b.1975) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts from Temple University's Boyer College of Music, Master of Arts from Tulane University and Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University. She studied composition with Matthew Greenbaum, Ph.D., Barbara Jazwinski, Ph.D, and Dinos Constantinides, Ph.D.
Her works have been internationally performed/presented/commissioned by the American Composers Forum Pascal Gallois Bassoon Competition, ACF New Voices (Philadelphia), Composers Collaborative inc. (NYC), Cygnus Ensemble (NYC), Ensemble Surplus (Freiburg, Germany), Momenta Quartet (NYC), and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. She was also a fellow at the Darmstadt Summer Festival for New Music.