Brad Cutcliffe has written extensively for nearly every genre of contemporary concert music and his works have been performed across the nation. Among his works are a piano concerto, a chamber opera, and numerous orchestral pieces including Recordare, a work commemorating the victims of September 11.  He is proud of his six seasons as composer-in-residence with the Kansas City-based Northland Symphony Orchestr.

His B.M. and M.M. in music composition were earned at the University of Denver, where he was the student of Dr. Donald Keats. He received his Ph.D. in music composition at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) where he studied with Paul Chihara, Roger Bourland, Paul Reale, Ian Krouse, and David Lefkowitz. 

Although his primary focus is composition, he is also in demand as a professional singer. He has served in several church and community choirs in both Denver and Kansas City, and is currently the bass section leader/soloist for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and the Kansas City Symphony Chorus. His student work with the Lamont Opera Theater included nearly a dozen roles such as Bartolo in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte.    

Dr. Cutcliffe is an adjunct instructor of music theory at Maple Woods Community College in Kansas City, MO.