Zae Munn is Professor of Music at Saint Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana where she has taught composition, theory, and orchestration since 1990. She teaches at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan in the summers. During her 2003-04 sabbatical, Munn is a Visiting Scholar in the University of Michigan Composition Department. She is currently composing an opera based on Karen Hesse's book Witness. The libretto is by Peg Lauber and the opera will be directed by Laurel Thomas with a premiere scheduled for April 2006. Her DMA and MM degrees in composition are from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and her BM in composition is from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University.
Born in 1953, Munn's early musical training was as a cellist, with additional studies in piano, voice, and conducting. In recent years Munn has written choral music for Amasong, Madison Children's Choir, Nova Singers, South Bend Chamber Singers, Southlake Children's Choir, and for choirs at Harvard, Central Michigan, Otterbein, Saint Mary's College, Valparaiso, and the University of Illinois. She has written vocal music for Nancy Walker, Deborah Norin-Kuehn, and Georgine Resick.
Munn has written instrumental music for La Catrina String Quartet, Arbitrio, Camerata Quintet (WIU), Con Tempo (U. of Notre Dame), Valparaiso University Orchestra, Walker Chapel Brass (Chicago), Keith Aleo (percussion), Randall Faust (horn), David and Sandra Jackson (trombone and clarinet), Christine Rutledge (viola), Joanne Swenson-Eldridge (viola), Kelland Thomas (saxophone), Tim McAllister (saxophone), and Barbara Sturgis-Everett (violin).
Zae Munn her works are published by Amoriello Guitar Publications, Arsis Press, Earthsongs, Frank E. Warren Music, HoneyRock, Jaymar Music, JOMAR Press, and Yelton Rhodes Music. Recordings are available from Amasong, Capstone Records, Centaur Records, and Pro Organo.
Web: http://www.under.org/cpcc/zmunn.htm (2005)