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Argentinean born Adriana Verdié de Vas-Romero joined the faculty at CSULB in 2003—where she currently teaches composition and theory—after receiving a Ph.D in composition from the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Masters degree in composition from CSULB, where she was elected Outstanding Graduate for the College of the Arts, and degrees in choral conducting and music education from the University of Cuyo in Argentina, where she was an active conductor, theory instructor, composer, and arranger.

Dr. Verdié’s music has been featured at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Cal State Summer Arts, with performances by the New York New Music Ensemble and Speculum Musicae (NY), the Oregon’s Ernest Bloch Festival, The Berkeley EdgeFest 2005, the Society of Composers, Inc. NE Convention, and the International Alliance of Women in Music Festival, in addition to being frequently performed at the CSU Composers’ Guild and Faculty Composers concerts, the UC Berkeley Graduate Composers concerts, and the Berkeley New Music Project concerts.

Critic Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times calls her music “compelling and original,” and critic Allan Ulrich of the San Francisco Chronicle compares her piece Flute 3.2.4. with Varese’s Density 21.5 “in its vivid exploration of this instrument’s capabilities.”

Dr. Verdié has been commissioned to write orchestra, chamber, and solo pieces, and her music has received several honors and awards in the US and Argentina for original composition and arranging (Flute 3.2.4., Jira-Yira, El Polvoroso). She has had performances of her works in the regular concert seasons of the new music groups Synchronia (St. Louis, MO), I Cantori (Pasadena, CA), Zephyr (Spokane, WA), Oasis (Long Beach, CA), Earplay (San Francisco, CA), Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, Americas Vocal Ensemble (New York), Sacramento Symphony Orchestra, Columbus (OH) Sinfonia, Berkeley University Symphony Orchestra, Cal State Northridge New Music Ensemble, Favorable Winds Woodwind Quintet (Columbus, OH), and the Cole Conservatory Brass Quintet, String Quartet, Woodwind Quintet, and New Music Ensembles.

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