Michael Ippolito
Composer

Michael Ippolito is a versatile composer and performer who has collaborated with classical, folk and jazz musicians in performances ranging from experimental improvisation to traditional Klezmer music. A graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, he studied composition with Joel Hoffman and Michael Fiday and improvisation with Alan Bern. Currently, he is a student at the Juilliard School, studying with John Corigliano.

As a composer, he has won recognition from the San Francisco Song Festival and the American Art Song Competition, the New York Art Ensemble and the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. He has received numerous commissions by ensembles such as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Miami University choruses and the Jeffers/Carlson piano duo. He has presented his music in master classes with Kaija Saariaho, Frederic Rzewski, Martin Bresnick and Zygmunt Krauze, among others.

Also an active performer, he has frequently presented his own compositions as well as the music of other young composers. As a pianist, he has performed in recitals at the University of Cincinnati, the Oregon Bach Festival, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and he has worked with Maurice Hinson and Lisa Moore in master classes. As an accordionist, he has performed with Klezmer bands as well as new music ensembles and improvisation groups.

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