ROBERT CONVERY studied at The Curtis Institute of Music, Westminster Choir College, and The Juilliard School where he received his doctorate in musical composition. His teachers have been Ned Rorem, David Diamond, Gian Carlo Menotti, Vincent Persichetti and Richard Hundley. Mr. Convery has received commissioning grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Opera America.