Meredith Brammeier
Associate Professor, Theory, Musicianship
Davidson Music Center Room 123 | 805-756-5038 | mbrammei@calpoly.edu
Meredith M. Brammeier earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California, in August, 2000. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she received a Master of Music in Composition degree in 1995, and Princeton University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree in 1992. Her composition teachers have included Stephen Hartke, Christopher Rouse, Samuel Adler, Peter Westergaard, and Steven Mackey. While at USC, Dr. Brammeier received the Theory and Composition Departmental Award, a Pi Kappa Lambda Award, and the Peter David Faith Memorial Award in Composition.
Dr. Brammeier’s piece for women’s chorus entitled “Ocean Country” won the 2002 California ACDA’s Choral Composition Competition; her setting of Ben Jonson’s “Hymn for the Nativity” for mixed chorus received an honorable mention in the 2007 Roger Wagner International Choral Composition Competition. Recent works include “Let Us Rejoice” for mixed chorus, organ and brass quartet, commissioned by the San Luis Obispo United Methodist Church to commemorate the opening of its new sanctuary in 2008; and “Gloria” for double chorus and organ, written to celebrate the installation of the Forbes pipe organ in the Performing Arts Center of San Luis Obispo and premiered by the Cal Poly choirs in December, 2007.
Dr. Brammeier is currently Associate Professor of Music at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, where she coordinates the music theory and musicianship programs.