Joyce Solomon Moorman
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Joyce Solomon Moorman (born May 11, 1946) is an American composer and educator.
Moorman was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on May 11, 1946, and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina.[1][2] She attended segregated public schools through high school.[1] Moorman earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1968 and in 1971, a masters of arts from Rutgers University.[2] She earned a masters of fine arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1975.[3] In 1982, she earned her doctorate from Columbia University.[2]
She taught at the Brooklyn Music School starting in 1982 and leaving in 1993.[2] She has also taught at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, St. John's University, York College, LaGuardia Community College, NYC College and at Brooklyn College.[2]
In 1976, she received a jazz study grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).[4] In 1998, she was the winner of the Vienna Modern Masters Millennium Commission Competition.[5]
