Edward Smaldone, born in Wantagh New York, received his B.A. and M.A. in Music from Queens College and holds a Ph.D in composition from the City University of New York, where he now serves as an Associate Professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College.
His composition teachers include George Perle, Ralph Shapey, Henry Weinberg and Hugo Weisgall. Smaldone is the recipient of awards such as the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as grants and awards from ASCAP, The Macdowell Colony, Yaddo Corporation, The Charles Ives Center for the Arts and the American Music Center.
Smaldone's music has been performed by the Munich Radio Orchestra, the Denver Chamber Orchestra, The Memphis Symphony and many other ensembles throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
An active composer for the dance, Smaldone arranged music by and attributed to Pergolesi which has been performed world wide by Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project . Other collaborations have been with the Hartford Ballet and the dancer-choreographer Yin Mei.
Recently, a new recording of Smaldone's music, "Scenes from the Heartland", has been released on CRI (Composers Recording, Inc.). Smaldone's music has also been recorded on the New World Records, Gadfly, Capstone, and New Music Manitoba labels.
To hear Edward Smaldone's music in concert, go to the Schedule of live music.
