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JP Galib

­­S.J.P. Galib is an award winning composer of choral, orchestral, and chamber music. His music has been performed in the United States and Europe.

In 2016, Mr. Galib was commissioned by Christ Church United Church of Christ of Norristown, Pennsylvania to compose In God Alone, a choral setting of select verses of Psalm 62, which was premiered at a joint service to welcome the new president of the United Church of Christ. The service was attended by the Bishop of Iceland, Agnes Sigurðardóttir. 

Mr. Galib was trained in counterpoint, harmony, musicianship, and analysis in the tradition of Nadia Boulanger at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris, France where he studied composition with Dr. David Conte and Dr. Narcis Bonet. Mr. Galib earned his Bachelors degree in Music from Franklin and Marshall College, where he studied composition with Dr. John Carbon, and was awarded the Music Departmental Award in Composition. Mr. Galib then earned his Master’s degree in Composition from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Dr. Stefan Young and Dr. Benjamin C.S. Boyle, and was a recipient of the Ruth and Raymond Young Composition Prize. Mr. Galib has also done postgraduate work in film scoring at Berklee College of Music's international campus in Valencia, Spain. 

Mr. Galib is also a trumpeter and a classically trained baritone. He has studied voice with Amadeo Lloris Martínez at the Conservatorio Superior de Música “Joaquín Rodrigo” de Valencia, Brian Meneely, and Louis Lebherz. He has studied trumpet with Dan Marino, Alex Sinievski, Frank Ferraro, and Dr. Kenneth Laudermilch. From 2015 to 2017, he played in the Main Line Symphony Orchestra, directed by Don Liuzzi of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and performs regularly in the Philadelphia area. He was the bass section leader at Christ Church UCC of Norristown, PA from 2015 to 2017. As a member of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Mr. Galib sang under the batons of Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Alan Gilbert, and Jacques Lacombe with the Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the New Jersey Symphony respectively. One of the highlights of his time in the Westminster Symphonic Choir was singing in Andrea Bocelli's Concerto, One Night in Central Park.

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