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Composer Loretta K. Notareschi was born in Canton, Ohio and raised in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She has received awards from the American Composers Forum, Ensemble Eleven, and the GALA Choruses and has written music for the Colorado State Music Teachers Association, Melody of China, the Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus, the San Francisco Community Music Center, the Napa Valley Youth Symphony, the Sacramento Youth Symphony Chamber Music Workshop, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, the Rivers Music School Brass Ensemble, clarinetist Peter Josheff, the Calliope Duo, Clogs, Nathan Davis of the ensemble Non Sequitur, the yesaroun' DUO, Ensemble Eleven, percussionists Yousif Sheronick and Joseph Gramley, and sopranist Zachary Gordin, among others. She is published by Friedrich Hofmeister. Notareschi is a faculty member at Regis University and a faculty member of The Walden School. She is also a member of ASCAP, the Amercian Composers Forum, and the American Music Center. Her music has been performed around the United States and in the United Kingdom. Notareschi holds a Bachelor of Music in composition from the University of Southern California and the General Diploma from the Zoltàn Kodàly Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemèt, Hungary, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She also holds a PhD in composition from the University of California at Berkeley. Her primary teachers in composition have been Morten Lauridsen, Erica Muhl, Rick Lesemann, Cindy Cox, and Jorge Liderman.