Z. Randall Stroope

Z. Randall Stroope is an internationally recognized composer and conductor, having conducted concerts in 26 countries and published over 200 musical works.  Randall is the Artistic Director of an international summer music festival in Rome, and has directed music for Vatican mass 12 times.  Recent guest conducting engagements include Jakarta (Indonesia), Milan, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Dublin, Stockholm, Berlin, and Tallinn.  In the United States, Randall has directed 41 performances at Carnegie Hall and numerous other conducting workshops, clinics, and performances at universities and festivals.

Randall has his own publishing entity for several of his newest works (w.zrstroope.com) as well as publishing through several other companies, including Oxford, Walton, and Alliance Music Publishing.   The Conversion of Saul,  Lamentations of Jeremiah,  Amor de mi alma, Tarantella, Dei Matris Cantibus, Christi Mutter, We Beheld Once Again the Stars, The Pasture, Revelation, I Am Not Yours, Hodie! (This Day), and the 30-minute choral/orchestral work, In Paradisum, are among his best known works.

Besides maintaining a very active guest conducting schedule throughout his career, Randall was also as a Distinguished Professor of Music at three universities. He holds degrees in music education, voice performance, piano performance, and conducting. He did post graduate conducting/score study with Margaret Hillis, Chorus Master of the Chicago Symphony and over a decade of composition study with Normand Lockwood (Prix de Rome winner) and student of the famous French teacher, Nadia Boulanger (who studied with Gabriel Fauré). Randall has a home/studio near Santa Fe, New Mexico and one on Merritt Island, Florida.