Anne Marie Guzzo (1968) is an award-winning composer and director of New Frontiers Festival of contemporary music based in Laramie, Wyoming.

A native of Wyoming, Guzzo earned her Ph.D. in theory and composition from the University of California, Davis, where she studied composition with Ross Bauer and Pablo Ortiz. Her master’s degree is in 20th Century Music from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and she received a bachelor of music in clarinet performance from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Guzzo’s music was recently heard in June 2010 at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy performed by DuoSolo (Mary Fukushima-Kirkendoll, flute and Michael Kirkendoll, piano) and her music for Amoeba Theater director, Denise Rinehart’s solo piece, Ci Piacciamo, was premiered at the Made In Woman festival in Bologna, Italy in June 2010. The Adzel Duo (Mariam Adam of the Imani Quintet and KU’s Stephanie Zelnick, clarinets) commissioned and performed Guzzo’s new duo, Color of Honey in June 2010. Guzzo’s compositions have been heard at numerous festivals, including the American Composers’ Forum New Music Salon in Minneapolis and the ArtPoint Festival near Frankfurt Germany in 2009, the 2007 International Cello Encounter 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 renowned composer, George Crumb. As a composition fellow, Guzzo studied with master composer Chen Yi at the Ernest Bloch Festival of Music in 2003, and her music has been played by the San Francisco Bay Area modern music group, the Empyrean Ensemble; Telling Stories from Boulder/Denver; the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra; Third Angle in Portland, Oregon, and a number of other ensembles.   Passionate about contemporary music, Guzzo performs with and composes for the new music quartet, SPaNK along with soprano, Maureen Sorensson, flutist Nicole Riner, and pianist, Theresa Bogard and directs New Frontiers, a yearly festival of new music at the University of Wyoming.   Guzzo teaches theory and composition at the University of Wyoming Research interests include the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Shulamit Ran, the cartoon music of Carl W. Stalling, and silent movie music.