Dr. Forrest Pierce is composer-in-residence of the Seattle New Music Ensemble, and assistant professor of music at Lewis & Clark College. A student of Don Freund, Stephen Paulus, and Dominick Argento, Pierce earned degrees from the University of Puget Sound summa cum laude, the University of Minnesota, and Indiana University, where he received the dean's prize in composition.
Dr. Forrest Pierce is composer-in-residence of the Seattle New Music Ensemble, and assistant professor of music at Lewis & Clark College. A student of Don Freund, Stephen Paulus, and Dominick Argento, Pierce earned degrees from the University of Puget Sound summa cum laude, the University of Minnesota, and Indiana University, where he received the dean's prize in composition.
Pierce has composed over one hundred works for soloists and ensembles representing orchestral, vocal, choral, and operatic forces. His works has been performed by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, the Brave New Works Core Ensemble, the Northwest Repertory Singers, the Oregon Repertory Singers, the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Seattle New Music Ensemble, and distinguished soloists in North America and abroad.