Melissa Pausina
Melissa Pausina, native of New Orleans, was born in 1975. Currently a Doctoral Candidate at Temple University's Boyer College of Music, she holds the degrees of 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. Recognized as a member of the "New Generation of American Composers" by Ensemble Surplus (Freiburg, Germany), she was also a fellow at the distinguished Darmstadt Summer Festival for New Music.
Among her recent endevearors include the composition of a chamber opera setting of Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener". The work was performed last May as part of Composers Collaborative inc.'s Serial Underground concert series at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City.