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Eddie Healy

About Me

Eddie Healy received his Bachelor’s Degree in classical guitar performance at The University of North Texas. He then completed a Master of Music degree with at Southern Methodist University.Eddie currently teaches at The University of Texas at Dallas, Eastfield College, the Spring Creek and Central Park campuses of the Collin County Community College District and the Gray School of Music. He has performed with the vocalists of The Orchestra of New Spain as well as string soloists from The Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He has been a judge at the Annual Texas International Guitar Competition/Festival and a co-director of the Annual Eastfield Collegiate Guitar Competition/Festival. He traveled to Spain in 2008 for a series of concerts and to Mexico in 2009 to perform at the 19th Annual International Guitar Festival of Morelia.His original compositions have been performed in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. Some were utilized as competition pieces by the Collin College One O’clock Guitar Ensemble when they received First Prize in their category at the University of Texas at Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Competition in 2007 and by the Guitar Arts Advanced Guitar Trio of Houston, Texas at the same competition in 2009. He has composed the theme to a series of podcasts produced by UTD titled, “A Conversation With…” and the alma mater for Rogers Middle School in Prosper, Texas. He is a member of ASCAP.Eddie has recorded for the label, Schaefers Recording Cooperative. He is currently pursuing his PhD at UTD with his first guitar instructor, Dr. Madriguera, serving as his advisor."Eddie Healy performed each number with much care and precision and at the same time managed to deliver the emotional quality of which the classical guitar is capable."-Gelene Simpson, Corsicana Daily SunSpan style="text-align:center;position:absolute; background-repeat:no-repeat; height:32px; width:100%;left:0px;top:200px;

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/09/2006
Band Members: Eddie Healy-composer/guitaristFeatured Performers:John Galvan-Guitar James Wilder-Guitar Jennifer McElroy-FluteDan Bock, Jason Wald, and Charles Watson on "War"
Influences: Stravinsky, Rodrigo, John Williams (composer), Eric Whitacre, Poulenc, Bad Religion, Palestrina, James Newton Howard, Ian Krouse, Faith No More, Thomas Newman, Leo Brouwer, etc.
Record Label: www.schaefersrecordingcooperative.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

60 Seconds

         Well, UTD has been using my piece, 20 Seconds, for radio ads as well as the theme for the podcast series, "A Conversation With...". I have heard those ads on NPR and have been told they are p...
Posted by on Sun, 17 May 2009 19:33:00 GMT

War

     So, I just put up War. It was a piece I wrote in 2006... guess what it's about!!!     This is a recording from my UTD faculty concert of a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to Charlie Watson and Jimmy ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:23:00 GMT

Invocation

     Hey, everyone.      I just put up a new video. It is my Collin College guitar ensemble playing a composition of mine titled Invocation at their concert a c...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:50:00 GMT

"A Conversation With..." theme.

       Well, the UTD communications center has posted the first installment of "A Conversation With...", the podcast series for which I composed and recorded the theme. I...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:04:00 GMT

Composing for a Living

       That's a Huey Lewis and the News song, right? Ah, it was something like that.        So, I've been very lucky to keep busy performing...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:30:00 GMT

This Night is a Rope

       This is a new piece for solo guitar. I conceived of it during the recording process. This was the second time I had done this over a couple of weeks. Ultimately, t...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Spain

       I've been back from Spain for just over a week. A lot of you have already asked me about the trip, but I have yet to talk to some of you. So...     ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:53:00 GMT

Eastfield Festival ’08

     Thanks to all of you who participated in the festival in some capacity. Thanks also to those of you attended some or all of our festival events. We had a good time and some very ex...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Solo Recital in Corsicana

         The Corsicana Daily Sun published an article about a solo recital I did there a couple of weeks ago. The author of the article was very positive and encouraging. Here...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:34:00 GMT

'Round Midnight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UubpGAGSQjY Here is The Garland High School Guitar Ensemble playing an arrangement I did of Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight. It's a little jazz and a little c...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 20:51:00 GMT