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Biography


Composer Justin Merritt (bn.1975) is an Assistant Professor and Composer-In-Residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.  In 2000 composer Justin Merritt  was the youngest-ever winner of the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolph Nissim Award for Janus Mask for Orchestra. He is also the winner of many other awards including the 2008 Copland Award, the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute Prize, the 2006 Polyphonos Prize, the 2000 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Composition Competition Award for The Day Florestan Murdered Magister Raro, and the 2001 Kuttner String Quartet Competition for Ravening.


He received his Bachelors in Music from Trinity University  and a Masters and Doctorate in Music from Indiana University.  He studied composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandström, Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund, and electronic and computer music with Jeffrey Hass.

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