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Joe Morra
COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
Joe Morra began playing the piano at the age of four when his parents discovered that he had perfect pitch. By the time he was a teenager, he had won a dozen classical piano competitions and performed as a soloist with two symphony orchestras. While attending Duke University, he studied voice and songwriting, and gave his first concert of original pop music. In the 1980s, Morra appeared regularly at night spots in New York City and Washington, D.C., and recorded his first album of original pop music "My Pleasure." He was a founding member of The Edge Theatre along with screenwriter and director Peter Hedges, director Joe Mantello, and actress Mary-Louise Parker, and also appeared on ABC-TV's daytime soap opera "One Life To Live" with veteran Broadway actress Shelly Burch. Morra studied law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, and currently practices in the Division of Trading and Markets at the Securities and Exchange Commission in D.C. In addition to writing, performing and recording original pop music, he serves as President of The Boomerang Fund for Artists (www.boomerangfund.org), a non-profit organization that raises money and awards grants to artists of all genres. In 1999, Morra released another album of pop songs entitled "Conversation With the Prophet" (www.cdbaby.com), which subsequently served as the music for "Wake Up," the first artistic collaboration between Morra and Mr. Horiuchi. "Le Reve" is Morra's fourth collaboration with Mr. Horiuchi.
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