Chicago born composer Salvatore “Sonny” LoCascio is a student at Georgia State University pursuing his master's degree in composition. He has written for a broad spectrum of performers, having had works performed by Imani Winds, organist Alex Benford, bass Martin Hardin, flautist Heather Willyard, euphonist Paul Dickinson and select singers from the Clayton State Chorale.
He has also written for a variety of mediums. Some of which include: Stagnant Motion for wind band, Songs of William Blake for voice and piano, a string trio, Sonata P.H. for piano, Magnificat for choir and organ, Gibberish for trombone, viola, marimba, timpani and piano, a flute sonata, award winning Massa Brassa for euphonium, an opera scene from “The Importance of Being Earnest,” and Cinq petites Soirées for violin and piano and Mass in e for choir.
He is also an active performer. He has performed the snake in Bruce Tinkley's Eve's Odds and St. John the Beloved in the earliest notated musical drama in western history: Planctus Mariae. Other works of note include tenor arias from Messiah and Poulenc’s Banalités. In 2010 he won the Atlanta Mu Phi Epsilon Alumni Scholarship, where he was noted showing "achievement in both performance and composition" after performing excerpts of his own Songs of William Blake song cycle.
Sonny is a student of Nickitas Demos. He has also studied composition with J. Wes Flinn, Chris Arrell, and T. Alan Armstrong, and voice with Kurt-Alexander Zeller. He has also studeid viola with Maria Mejia-Acosta and Tania Maxwell Clements.
