The phrase 'resident composer' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a composer who is employed by an organization, school, or city to solely compose music. For example, "The local school hired a resident composer to provide musical accompaniment to all of their theatrical productions."
The episode's music was composed by Fordham, Scrubs resident composer Jan Stevens, The Worthless Peons' Paul Perry, Tony Award-winning Broadway orchestrator Doug Besterman, and the Avenue Q writing team of Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez.
Lorin Maazel led it in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Oriental-inflected works composed by the orchestra's music director and resident composer, Marcel Khalife, a prominent Lebanese oud player and major musical figure in the Arab world.
One, Mark Bowden, has recently become BBCNOW's resident composer; his cello concerto Lyra is the first piece he's composed in his new role, and it was written for the soloist here, Oliver Coates.
From 2006 to 2009, Guto Pryderi Puw was resident composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the five pieces on this disc were composed for them.
She's the Almeida's first resident composer.
"Innovation J. S.," by Charles Coleman, the ensemble's resident composer, opened the program.
Julian Anderson spent four fruitful years as resident composer with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
With a little help from Randall Davidson, his resident composer-arranger, and Philip Brunelle, his inspired conductor-accompanist, he warbled Carmen's Habanera, incorporating proper yuppie plugs for Powdermilk Biscuit Croissants.
André Previn (1929-) German-born, American-resident composer, conductor and pianist.
By setting up resident-composer schemes, orchestras are able to attract extra money from the Arts Council and its devolved bodies through the maze of funding for new initiatives and outreach programmes that seems designed to make running a major arts organisation as complicated as possible.
The Programs in Theater and Music Theater host a workshop presentation of a new musical by Professor R.N. Sandberg and Resident Composer/Music Director Vince Di Mura that re-imagines Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1961 as the first black student enrolls at the University of Georgia.
