Composer Bryan Page received a double Bachelor of Music in Composition & Trumpet Performance from the University of Montevallo and a Master of Sacred Music from Westminster Choir College of Rider University. He currently studies composition with Dr. Bryan Clark of Vanderbilt University, formerly with Drs. Ed Robertson, Ron Hemmel & Joel Phillips. He has participated in master classes with George Crumb, David Cutler & Joseph Schwantner.

In 2002 he was awarded the Hoke Church Music award at Westminster Choir College for his Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis. In 2006 his realization of Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda was performed by The Metropolis Ensemble of New York City. His chamber work Portraits & Madrigals has been performed in Princeton, New Jersey; Birmingham, Alabama; & in 2008 in Los Angeles, California for the inaugural concert of Contempo Flux, UCLA’s contemporary music ensemble. Also in 2008 the Brass Band of Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama) performed his Kick the Duck – Rondo for Brass Band. In 2009 the Huntsville Master Chorale commissioned & premiered his Songs of Love & Loss, an 11-movement work for choir, soloists and chamber ensemble. Also in 2009 Bryan’s Misogyny Songs for amplified singer & rock trio was performed in Birmingham, Alabama by the Birmingham Art Music Alliance (B.A.M.A.) In 2010 he was awarded the Longfellow Chorus Award of Distinction for his art song The Little Moon.

With the majority of his compositional output being vocal, Bryan has worked with many different poets and literary sources. He has set to music the poetry of E. E. Cummings, D. H. Lawrence, William Blake, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Herbert, Hans Magnus Enzenberger and contemporary poet E. Louise Beach, as well as Biblical and traditional texts.

Bryan is Music Director at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Trumpet Instructor at the Hawthorne Conservatory and Solo Cornetist with the Brass Band of Huntsville. He lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife, Suzanne, their two children, Jack Ezra & Sarah Frances, and their two dogs, Iverson & Potter.