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Anne M. Guzzo, a Wyoming Arts Council Fellow in Music Composition, earned her Ph.D. in theory-composition from the University of California, Davis, USA, where she studied with Ross Bauer and Pablo Ortiz. She holds a Master of Arts degree in 20th Century music from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Guzzo’s compositions were recently heard at the American Composers’ Forum New Music Salon in Minneapolis, Minnesota and at the Art Point festival near Frankfurt Germany. Her music has been heard at the International Cello Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the Oregon Bach Festival Composers’ Symposium (OBFCS) performed by New York new music ensemble, Fireworks. In 2004 she was the recipient of a Crumb Commission from the OBFCS for a new work that celebrated the 75th birthday of composer, George Crumb. Her music has been played by the San Francisco Bay Area group, the Empyrean Ensemble; Boulder, Colorado’s Telling Stories; UnStaged Orchestra in Denver, Colorado; Third Angle Ensemble from Portland, Oregon; the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra in Wyoming; the Davis Composers’ Collective in California, and the Scotia Festival of Music Modern Young Artists in Halifax, Canada. Research interests include silent movie music, cartoon composers, and contemporary women composers. Guzzo teaches music composition and theory at the University of Wyoming, and is the director of New Frontiers: The Laramie Contemporary Music Project.