Justin Casinghino

Justin Casinghino composes in a variety of genres, striving to create works that are lyrical, rich in harmony and possess a sound structural integrity. Also a performer in the jazz and popular idioms, this influence is often present in his music, but commonly at subtle levels. His studies of composition include work with, amongst others, Gunther Schuller, Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou and Richard Cornell. Casinghino has had pieces requested and performed by such groups as ALEA III, the Longy Chamber Orchestra, the Longitude New Music Ensemble, the Contemporary Players New Music Ensemble, the Libella Quartet, the Juventas New Music Ensemble, the Lorelei Vocal Ensemble, Vento Chiaro and the Rivers School Conservatory. Dr. Casinghino is a lecturer in the departments of composition and theory at Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is the Assistant Director of the Young Artists’ Composition Program at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is also the founder and director of the Boston Composers’ Coalition, a group that is dedicated to the collaborative creation, education and dissemination of new American music. A firm believer that pedagogy is an art within itself, Casinghino takes great pride in his students of composition, who have won awards including several ASCAP Young Composer and Downbeat composition prizes, and have earned commissions and performances by the Boston Pops, the Newton Symphony Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex and MYWE. Casinghino performs throughout the New England area on piano, Hammond organ, SATB saxophones and as a vocalist with a number of “popular” genre groups. More information about the Boston Composers’ Coalition can be found at www.bostoncomposers.org.