Garrett Byrnes

Garrett Byrnes composes a wide variety of concert music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, vocalists and instrumentalists. Byrnes’ music has been performed in many of the worlds leading concert halls, among them New York’s Carnegie Hall, The Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and Cité de la Musique in Paris. His music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire.

Byrnes has served as Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Ball State University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Composition at Illinois Wesleyan University, and as Associate Instructor of Composition at Indiana University. He received degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (DM), Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (MM), and The Boston Conservatory (BM). Awards include American Music Center, National Association of Composers, American Art Song Competition, ASCAP, USA International Harp Composition Competition, and has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and resided at the artist house of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He currently lives in southern New England and composes by the ocean when possible.

Garrett Byrnes composes a wide variety of concert music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, vocalists and instrumentalists. Byrnes’ music has been performed in many of the worlds leading concert halls, among them New York’s Carnegie Hall, The Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and Cité de la Musique in Paris. His music has been performed by orchestras and ensembles including the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire.

Byrnes has served as Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Ball State University, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Composition at Illinois Wesleyan University, and as Associate Instructor of Composition at Indiana University. He received degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (DM), Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (MM), and The Boston Conservatory (BM). Awards include American Music Center, National Association of Composers, American Art Song Competition, ASCAP, USA International Harp Composition Competition, and has received fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and resided at the artist house of St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He currently lives in southern New England and composes by the ocean when possible.

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