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9_6	Early life and education
9_7	Cozette is the great-granddaughter of Warren Garner, an African slave who fought during the
9_8	American Civil War in the 4th Regiment Infantry of the United States Colored Troops. Cozette began
9_9	her formal music training at 8 years old by studying piano with Carmen Rummo, a Duquesne University
9_10	professor. She began studying flute at 10 years old. Her early flute teachers were Alois Hrabak, a
9_11	former flutist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Bernard Goldberg, the principal flutist
9_12	of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Cozette received the Victor Saudek Flute Award in 1969 to
9_13	study with Goldberg. She began her musical composition training at 16 years old with Joseph Wilcox
9_14	Jenkins, a Duquesne University music composition professor. Cozette's prize for winning an
9_15	honorable mention award in the Pittsburgh Flute Club Composition Contest in 1969 was to have
9_16	composition lessons with Jenkins.
9_17	Cozette attended Jacksonville University from 1971 to 1973 and her music composition teachers
9_18	included William Hoskins. Cozette attended Carnegie Mellon University from 1973 to 1975. Cozette
9_19	performed her senior recital in 1975 with Gary Chang, a fellow music composition student at
9_20	Carnegie Mellon. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
9_21	Degree in Music Composition. Her music composition teachers at Carnegie Mellon included Leonardo
9_22	Balada and Roland Leich. Cozette attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1977 with
9_23	a Master of Arts Degree in Music Composition from the university. Her music composition teachers at
9_24	University of Pennsylvania included George Crumb and George Rochberg. Cozette studied music
9_25	copying from 1977 to 1978 at the Juilliard School of Music with Arnold Arnstein, the personal music
9_26	copyist to Leonard Bernstein, Gian-Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber. She received her Master of
9_27	Public Administration Degree from Rutgers University in 2005. She received her doctorate degree in
9_28	education from Rowan University in 2009.
9_29	Music
9_30	From the beginning of her composing career Cozette's music style was influenced by the French
9_31	impressionistic composers, Debussy and Ravel. Cozette's music composition training directly stems
9_32	from Eusebius Mandyczewski, a close friend and amanuensis of Johannes Brahms through her music
9_33	composition instructors, Roland Leich and George Rochberg. Both of these instructors were students
9_34	of Rosario Scalero, a pupil of Mandyczewski. Cozette's Black heritage greatly influences her music
9_35	composition through her selection of music themes. Cozette completed two one act operas, Adea and
9_36	The Black Guitar in 1982. However, had difficulty with obtaining publications of her works and
9_37	recordings. Cozette started sketches on her opera based on the life of her great-grandfather who
9_38	fought as a soldier in the Civil War and turned to writing smaller compositions for solo flute and
9_39	piano.
9_40	Cozette won national music awards for her compositions. Her Nigerian Treasures for Solo
9_41	Unaccompanied Flute received a College Music Society Composition Award in 1985 and the work was
9_42	premiered at the College Music Society Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia during November,
9_43	1985. Cozette was named to Mu Phi Epsilon's member list of outstanding Artists, Composers,
9_44	Musicologists and Educators (ACME honor). With her sister, Hazel Ann Lee, she wrote the musical
9_45	Magazine Watchtime.
9_46	Cozette's original music compositions have not been published, however, over 45 of her vocal,
9_47	instrumental and operatic works are registered with the Library of Congress through the United
9_48	States Copyright Office.
9_49	Productions
9_50	From 1982 to 1984, Cozette produced and hosted her own classical music radio interview program on
9_51	WPEB Public Radio entitled Classical Reflections. Her radio program was a forum for
9_52	African-American classical musicians in Philadelphia to discuss their life and works. She also
9_53	promoted African-American classical musicians by being a classical music consultant for a weekly
9_54	radio show called The Marketplace created by Joe Adams for WUHY PBS Radio station from 1976 to 1977
9_55	(WUHY is now called WHYY-FM). Cozette produced and performed her one-woman show, Songs I Wrote For
9_56	Broadway, in 2001 for the Women of Color Festival in New York.
9_57	Writings Cozette began writing poetry and fiction in 2000, as well as non-fiction essays.
9_58	Lee, C.C. (2020). The Forgotten Schoolhouse: Original Poems and Stories on Faith, Love, Nature and
9_59	Wonder. Covenant Books, Inc.
9_60	Lee. C.C. (2014). Native American Music and Living Legends. Teachers Institute of Philadelphia.
9_61	Lee, C. (2010). D.O.O.R.S. of Change: Capacity Building to Differentiated Instruction. Dissertation
9_62	Published by ProQuest.
9_63	Lee, C. (November, 2000). Build a bias-free classroom. NJEA Review, 14-16.
9_64	Selected Works
9_65	Operas ADEA Opera in One Act and Three Scenes The Black Guitar (La Guitarra Negra)
9_66	Partway To Freedom
9_67	Orchestral Ebony Reflections for chamber orchestra Nepenthe Concerto for piano and orchestra
9_68	The Martyr for baritone and orchestra
9_69	Chamber Music Nigerian Treasures for solo unaccompanied flute
9_70	Pittsburgh Memoirs in 3 Movements for flute trio
9_71	Rivers: An African Tribute in 3 movements for solo unaccompanied flute
9_72	The Steps of the Art Museum Three Poems for the piano Paris String Quartet
9_73	Sweets for 4 Flutes in 3 Movements for flute quartet
9_74	Vocal/Choral Colors for Women’s Chorus and Percussion Ensemble
9_75	Las Canciones de Puerto Rico for SATB choir Make A Joyful Noise for SATB choir
9_76	The Doctor’s Song Cycle for soprano, voice and piano
9_77	Musicals Secretaries Slavery Year 3000 Songs I Wrote for Broadway, a Musical Review References
9_78	Extended References
9_79	Africa Enchants Me Top Cultural Event. (2016, June 11). The Philadelphia Sunday Sun. Retrieved
9_80	from https://www.philasun.com/local/africa-enchants-top-cultural-concert-event/
9_81	Borgstedt, A. and Crocca, C. (2017, May 16). Carl Dupont Annual Recital May 15, 2016. Viva Voce
9_82	Opera Guild of Rochester Newsletter. Retrieved from
9_83	http://www.operaguildofrochester.org/newsletters/2016-June.htm
9_84	Roland Leich Letters to Cynthia Cozette Lee Collection, 1976 to 2010, Pittsburgh Music Archives,
9_85	Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
9_86	Cynthia Cozette Lee Letters to Roland Leich Collection, 1976 to 2010, Pittsburgh Music Archives,
9_87	Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
9_88	Arnold Arnstein Interview with Cynthia Cozette Lee (Transcription). (1982, November 11), Roland
9_89	Leich Collection, 1976 to 2010, (Box MSS C, Folder 5-10), John de Lancie Library, Curtis Institute
9_90	of Music, Philadelphia, PA.
9_91	Orchestral Music of Women of African Descent - Cynthia Cozette Lee. (n.d.). Women’s Philharmonic
9_92	Advocacy. Retrieved from https://wophil.org/african/
9_93	Younge, E. M. (2013, February 22). Partway To Freedom - A Civil War Opera" A Beautiful Work In
9_94	Progress! Retrieved from https://eryounge.blogspot.com/
9_95	G., Perry. (2015, March 16). Partway to Freedom at the Free Library. Retrieved from
9_96	https://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/2198
9_97	Donahue, B. (2017, February 6). Rowan’s Faculty Spotlight Concert Honors Black History Month. The
9_98	Whit Online Rowan University’s Campus Newspaper. Retrieved from
9_99	https://thewhitonline.com/2017/02/arts-entertainment/rowans-faculty-spotlight-concert-honors-black-
9_100	history-month/
9_101	External links Official website Chamber Music America Interview with Cynthia Cozette Lee
9_102	Doolee Playwrights Database US Copyright Office Alpha Epsilon Lambda Honor Society
9_103	Mu Phi Epsilon Competition Contest Winners
9_104	1953 births 20th-century American composers 20th-century American women musicians
9_105	20th-century classical composers 20th-century women composers 21st-century American composers

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Early life and education

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Cozette is the great-granddaughter of Warren Garner, an African slave who fought during the

9_8

American Civil War in the 4th Regiment Infantry of the United States Colored Troops. Cozette began

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her formal music training at 8 years old by studying piano with Carmen Rummo, a Duquesne University

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professor. She began studying flute at 10 years old. Her early flute teachers were Alois Hrabak, a

9_11

former flutist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Bernard Goldberg, the principal flutist

9_12

of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Cozette received the Victor Saudek Flute Award in 1969 to

9_13

study with Goldberg. She began her musical composition training at 16 years old with Joseph Wilcox

9_14

Jenkins, a Duquesne University music composition professor. Cozette's prize for winning an

9_15

honorable mention award in the Pittsburgh Flute Club Composition Contest in 1969 was to have

9_16

composition lessons with Jenkins.

9_17

Cozette attended Jacksonville University from 1971 to 1973 and her music composition teachers

9_18

included William Hoskins. Cozette attended Carnegie Mellon University from 1973 to 1975. Cozette

9_19

performed her senior recital in 1975 with Gary Chang, a fellow music composition student at

9_20

Carnegie Mellon. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts

9_21

Degree in Music Composition. Her music composition teachers at Carnegie Mellon included Leonardo

9_22

Balada and Roland Leich. Cozette attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1977 with

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a Master of Arts Degree in Music Composition from the university. Her music composition teachers at

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University of Pennsylvania included George Crumb and George Rochberg. Cozette studied music

9_25

copying from 1977 to 1978 at the Juilliard School of Music with Arnold Arnstein, the personal music

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copyist to Leonard Bernstein, Gian-Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber. She received her Master of

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Public Administration Degree from Rutgers University in 2005. She received her doctorate degree in

9_28

education from Rowan University in 2009.

9_29

Music

9_30

From the beginning of her composing career Cozette's music style was influenced by the French

9_31

impressionistic composers, Debussy and Ravel. Cozette's music composition training directly stems

9_32

from Eusebius Mandyczewski, a close friend and amanuensis of Johannes Brahms through her music

9_33

composition instructors, Roland Leich and George Rochberg. Both of these instructors were students

9_34

of Rosario Scalero, a pupil of Mandyczewski. Cozette's Black heritage greatly influences her music

9_35

composition through her selection of music themes. Cozette completed two one act operas, Adea and

9_36

The Black Guitar in 1982. However, had difficulty with obtaining publications of her works and

9_37

recordings. Cozette started sketches on her opera based on the life of her great-grandfather who

9_38

fought as a soldier in the Civil War and turned to writing smaller compositions for solo flute and

9_39

piano.

9_40

Cozette won national music awards for her compositions. Her Nigerian Treasures for Solo

9_41

Unaccompanied Flute received a College Music Society Composition Award in 1985 and the work was

9_42

premiered at the College Music Society Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia during November,

9_43

1985. Cozette was named to Mu Phi Epsilon's member list of outstanding Artists, Composers,

9_44

Musicologists and Educators (ACME honor). With her sister, Hazel Ann Lee, she wrote the musical

9_45

Magazine Watchtime.

9_46

Cozette's original music compositions have not been published, however, over 45 of her vocal,

9_47

instrumental and operatic works are registered with the Library of Congress through the United

9_48

States Copyright Office.

9_49

Productions

9_50

From 1982 to 1984, Cozette produced and hosted her own classical music radio interview program on

9_51

WPEB Public Radio entitled Classical Reflections. Her radio program was a forum for

9_52

African-American classical musicians in Philadelphia to discuss their life and works. She also

9_53

promoted African-American classical musicians by being a classical music consultant for a weekly

9_54

radio show called The Marketplace created by Joe Adams for WUHY PBS Radio station from 1976 to 1977

9_55

(WUHY is now called WHYY-FM). Cozette produced and performed her one-woman show, Songs I Wrote For

9_56

Broadway, in 2001 for the Women of Color Festival in New York.

9_57

Writings Cozette began writing poetry and fiction in 2000, as well as non-fiction essays.

9_58

Lee, C.C. (2020). The Forgotten Schoolhouse: Original Poems and Stories on Faith, Love, Nature and

9_59

Wonder. Covenant Books, Inc.

9_60

Lee. C.C. (2014). Native American Music and Living Legends. Teachers Institute of Philadelphia.

9_61

Lee, C. (2010). D.O.O.R.S. of Change: Capacity Building to Differentiated Instruction. Dissertation

9_62

Published by ProQuest.

9_63

Lee, C. (November, 2000). Build a bias-free classroom. NJEA Review, 14-16.

9_64

Selected Works

9_65

Operas ADEA Opera in One Act and Three Scenes The Black Guitar (La Guitarra Negra)

9_66

Partway To Freedom

9_67

Orchestral Ebony Reflections for chamber orchestra Nepenthe Concerto for piano and orchestra

9_68

The Martyr for baritone and orchestra

9_69

Chamber Music Nigerian Treasures for solo unaccompanied flute

9_70

Pittsburgh Memoirs in 3 Movements for flute trio

9_71

Rivers: An African Tribute in 3 movements for solo unaccompanied flute

9_72

The Steps of the Art Museum Three Poems for the piano Paris String Quartet

9_73

Sweets for 4 Flutes in 3 Movements for flute quartet

9_74

Vocal/Choral Colors for Women’s Chorus and Percussion Ensemble

9_75

Las Canciones de Puerto Rico for SATB choir Make A Joyful Noise for SATB choir

9_76

The Doctor’s Song Cycle for soprano, voice and piano

9_77

Musicals Secretaries Slavery Year 3000 Songs I Wrote for Broadway, a Musical Review References

9_78

Extended References

9_79

Africa Enchants Me Top Cultural Event. (2016, June 11). The Philadelphia Sunday Sun. Retrieved

9_80

from https://www.philasun.com/local/africa-enchants-top-cultural-concert-event/

9_81

Borgstedt, A. and Crocca, C. (2017, May 16). Carl Dupont Annual Recital May 15, 2016. Viva Voce

9_82

Opera Guild of Rochester Newsletter. Retrieved from

9_83

http://www.operaguildofrochester.org/newsletters/2016-June.htm

9_84

Roland Leich Letters to Cynthia Cozette Lee Collection, 1976 to 2010, Pittsburgh Music Archives,

9_85

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

9_86

Cynthia Cozette Lee Letters to Roland Leich Collection, 1976 to 2010, Pittsburgh Music Archives,

9_87

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

9_88

Arnold Arnstein Interview with Cynthia Cozette Lee (Transcription). (1982, November 11), Roland

9_89

Leich Collection, 1976 to 2010, (Box MSS C, Folder 5-10), John de Lancie Library, Curtis Institute

9_90

of Music, Philadelphia, PA.

9_91

Orchestral Music of Women of African Descent - Cynthia Cozette Lee. (n.d.). Women’s Philharmonic

9_92

Advocacy. Retrieved from https://wophil.org/african/

9_93

Younge, E. M. (2013, February 22). Partway To Freedom - A Civil War Opera" A Beautiful Work In

9_94

Progress! Retrieved from https://eryounge.blogspot.com/

9_95

G., Perry. (2015, March 16). Partway to Freedom at the Free Library. Retrieved from

9_96

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/2198

9_97

Donahue, B. (2017, February 6). Rowan’s Faculty Spotlight Concert Honors Black History Month. The

9_98

Whit Online Rowan University’s Campus Newspaper. Retrieved from

9_99

https://thewhitonline.com/2017/02/arts-entertainment/rowans-faculty-spotlight-concert-honors-black-

9_100

history-month/

9_101

External links Official website Chamber Music America Interview with Cynthia Cozette Lee

9_102

Doolee Playwrights Database US Copyright Office Alpha Epsilon Lambda Honor Society

9_103

Mu Phi Epsilon Competition Contest Winners

9_104

1953 births 20th-century American composers 20th-century American women musicians

9_105

20th-century classical composers 20th-century women composers 21st-century American composers