About Me
Musician's Bio
Mariana Joyce is a graduate of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School (where she received the Composition Department Award), and of Berklee’s advanced professional certificate program in film scoring. She is the recipient of both the A. Ramon Rivera Contemporary Music Award (2022) and the Alice Proctor Composition Award (2023). In 2023, she was a semifinalist for ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award. Her works have been performed in Williams Hall, Jordan Hall, and at BUTI Tanglewood, and selected for programming in the seventh annual Research on Contemporary Composition Conference at UNG. Mariana has worked with the Arneis String Quartet, the Gordon College Choir, NEC’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and pianist Elena Drabkin to have pieces performed, read, and recorded. She has completed four piano sonatas, a symphony, and a viola concerto among many smaller solo, film, and chamber works, and has been commissioned for the Rivers School Conservatory Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young.