JUDITH SAINTE CROIX
Composer/Performer
Ms. Sainte Croix began playing professionally at the age of sixteen, performing the Poulenc
Organ Concerto with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She went on to study composition with
John Eaton and Iannis Xenakis, receiving a Masters of Composition at Indiana University
School of Music.
Her awards and performances include the Gaudeamus Competition in the Netherlands for
the orchestral work Love Brings Good Fortune, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation
for performances in Europe, the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s premiere of the opera The Secret
Circuit, the Canton Ohio Symphony's premiere of Anodos (The Goddess Arising), as
well as a Creative Associate Fellowship in Buffalo, NY, and support from the National
Endowment for the Arts, for the development of her ensemble, The Sonora Ensemble.
In New York City, her music has been performed at Lincoln Center, the Kitchen, the
Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Art Museum, Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, the Dia
Art Foundation, the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Elebash Recital Hall, the Steinway Co.,
New York University and Merkin Concert Hall and the Americas Society.
She has been sponsored in concert by the Chamber Music America, the Orchestra of St.
Lukes, The Long Island Composer's Alliance, The Kitchen, Meet the Composer, The
American Composer's Forum, Raw Impressions Music Theatre, New Dramatists and the
New York State Council on the Arts.
Performances outside New York include, The Philharmonia Gaudi in Vienna, Austria, The
Rhode Island Philharmonic, The Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, the North Carolina
Symphony, Taos Chamber Music Group, Serenada of Santa Fe, the Atlantic Center for the
Arts & performances internationally of the Kachina Piano Preludes by Norman Krieger.
Ms. Sainte Croix has received foundation support for her music from, The Wurlitzer, The
Heathcote Arts and The Jerome Foundations as well as The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust Recording Fund. In 2001 she received the Chamber Music America Commissiong
Award to create Vision III which also received an NEA Touring Grant for the 2002-2003
season and a Department of Cultural Affairs development grant.
In June of 2001 her string quartet Renewal was included on the Capstone CD release,
Diverse Light. She had a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Jan 2002 and was a
visiting artist at Art Omi, July/Aug. 2003. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded
her a NYFA Fellows Award in Music Composition in May of 2002 and the Concordia
Career Advancement Award in June of 2003. In the 2003 National Geographic TV feature
on temperate rainforest conversation, entitled “Branching Out”, she sings her operatic
rainforest music 200 feet above ground in the forest canopy. In 2004 she received a
Continental Harmony Commission for the state of Rhode Island. She just completed
concerts and outreach for the Durango, Colorado and Bozeman, MT Symphony with Native
American Flutist, R. Carlos Nakai as soloist, performing her work Vision II. She recently
completed a fellowship to attend the Julia and David White Artist Colony in Colon, Costa
Rica.
Selected Recent Performances
 Under the Radar, music by the Sonora Ensemble, Woodstock, NY, Oct 2009 Byrdcliffe
Artist Colony with Mark DeGarmo and Dancers
 Sound Sky Wing Breath Tour, Sonora Trio, New York Area, 2009 Season
 Los Pajaros Blancos de la Noche Profunda, piano and flute version premiered by
Andrew Bolotowsky and Mime Stern-Wolf, Greenwich House, NYC March 25, 2009
 Arctic Wind, performed by Zara Lawler, South Nyack Recital Series & Rockland
Conservatory of Music, Jan - March, 09
 Visionary Dance with Mark DeGarmo and Dancers Fundraiser, Fall, NYC 2008
Force of Music and Water & Sound Sky Wing Breath Tour, Sonora Trio, NY State
 Arctic Wind premiered, Oct. 08 by Andrew Bolotowsky, NYC
 Melodies and Trees Tour, Sonora Trio, Yonkers and Valhalla,
 Vision II . Carlos Nakai and the Bozeman Symphony, Oct 2006
 The Colors of Musical Creation Tour, New York Area with A. Bolotowsky, flutes;
J. Sainte Croix, voice, piano , synthesizer, works by Sainte Croix and others, 2005-6
 Vision II with R. Carlos Nakai and the San Juan Symphony, Feb 2005
 The Flower Aria, Branching Out, National Geographic TV, 2003
 Vision III, The Quintet of the Americas; commissioned by Chamber Music America;
premiere, The Americas Society, NYC, March 2002; showcased at The Chamber Music
America Conference, NYC, Jan. 2002
 Renewal, Meridian String Quartet, premiere CUNY Graduate Center, NYC June, 2001
released on Capstone Records, June 2001
 From Far Beyond the Blue Sky, Haus Der Musik, Vienna, Austria, for chamber
orchestra, May 2001, Gaudi Philharmonia; comm.by the Queen's Chamber Band,
harpsichord, string quartet, fl, ob, guitar, ctenor, mask, prem. at Merkin Concert Hall
6/6/00.
 In January, 2000 The Rhode Island Philharmonic premiered Gateway to Eternity: The
Song of the Angel of Fulfillment for orchestra, dancer, soprano and two global jazz
drummers, a collaboration with jazz drummer Bob Fish in Providence, Rhode Island.
 Three Lives, One Journey, commissioned by the Uroborus Dance Co., Nancy Allison,
choreographer, NYU Distinguished Faculty Dance Concert, September 1999.
 Visions of Light and Mystery, New Music by Composer Judith Sainte Croix, funded
by the Jerome and the Heathcote Art Foundations at Merkin Concert Hall, June 1998.
 Heart Like a Wild River, string trio, Orchestra of St Luke's at the DIA Art Found. May
1998.
 Rise Up! The Enemy is Us, a work of abstract musical chamber theatre, at Carnegie's
Weill Recital Hall and the Kitchen, May/October 1998.
Partial Listing of Important Works
 Chamber Music
Los Pajaros Blancos de la Noche Profunda and Las Flores de la Luz Abren el Cielo,
for electric quitar, flute and piano
Vision III for wind quintet, indigenous instruments & festival images from Central and South America
Renewal, String Quartet
The Bright Leaf Trios for flute, cello and piano
Heart Like a Wild River for violin, viola and cello
Vision II for oboe, oboe d’amore, Native American flute & drum, violin, viola & cello
 Chamber Orchestra
Vision I for flute, Native American flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, horn, piano, percussion & strings
From Far Beyond the Blue Sky for flute, oboe, keyboard, strings, mask, singer, electronics
 Orchestra
Love Brings Good Fortune
Anodos (The Goddess Arising)
Burning in the Center for chorus and string orchestra
Gateway to Eternity for drummers and soprano dancers and orchestra
 Opera & Abstract Musical Chamber Theatre
How Music Came Into the World
The Rainbow Mother
Topography of Light
The Vine of the Soul (in progress)
The Secret Circuit & The Art of Triumph
Rise Up! The Enemy is Us for harp, dance, voice
Dear One for tenor and tape