About
Micah Mooney (b. 1998) is a composer-theorist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan whose work explores music, story, and language. His research interests include musical theater, minimalism and post-minimalism, and the interaction of music and language in the composer’s creative process. A current project of his investigates text-setting in tonal languages for contemporary composers. He has presented his research at the Expression Language and Music Conference, the Musical Theater Interest Group at SMT, Music Theory Midwest, the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music, and AMS-Southwest. He has a B.M. in Music from Grove City College and an M.A. in Music Theory and an M.M. in Composition from Penn State University. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Theory at the University of Michigan. Composition teachers include Bright Sheng, Roshanne Etezady, Evan Chambers, Baljinder Sekhon, David Wolfson, Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice, and Joseph Hasper.
(updated Auguest 2025)