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Monica Houghton

http://www.monicahoughton.com

Monica (Niki) Houghton was born in Bennington, Vermont, and grew up in Reno, Nevada. She received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University and more recently, an M.M. in Composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Margaret Brouwer. Ms. Houghton began composing in 1993, studying first with composer Mary Ann Griebling and later with Dennis Eberhard. Her works  have been performed by the Contemporary Youth Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, the University Circle Wind Ensemble and the CIM Orchestra, and on concerts of the Cleveland Composers Guild, the Tuesday Musical Club, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, the AKI Festival of New Music and the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, and and broadcast on WCLV’s “Not the Dead White Male Composers Hour.” Her solo organ work "Erebus" is available in a Cleveland Museum of art recording on the AZICA label. Monica has composed an opera entitled, “The Big Bonanza,” scenes from which have been presented at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and the Virginia Arts Festival John Duffy Composer Institute. Ms. Houghton currently serves on the faculty of the Preparatory and Continuing Education Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music and as Instructor of Composition for the Joint Program with Case Western Reserve University.