Clint Joseph Borzoni is an award-winning composer known for his lyrical music, praised for its "natural gift for melody and harmonic structure" (The Huffington Post) and "sweeping melodies and emotional and dramatic range" (Opera News). His operas and songs have been performed internationally, with notable collaborations with librettist John de los Santos. Their first opera, When Adonis Calls, set entirely to poetry by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard, premiered at Asheville Lyric Opera and had a subsequent production in Chicago. Their second opera, The Copper Queen, won Arizona Opera’s SPARK commission, premiered as an award-winning feature film, and has had multiple workshops, including one at Opera America. Their third opera, The Christmas Spider, developed with The American Opera Project, has been produced by Opera Louisiane, Ovation West, Marble City Opera, and Skylark Opera Theatre.

Borzoni has also collaborated with Judith G. Wolf on the opera In Love Alone and the oratorio After, which focuses on the period between the crucifixion and resurrection. His earlier oratorio, The Wife of Lot, commissioned by the Gavin Dillard Poetry Library & Archive, is part of the Senator John Heinz History Center’s collection. His other operatic works include Margot Alone in the Light, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day, and Antinous and Hadrian, commissioned by operamission. The orchestral suite from Antinous and Hadrian won the Queer Urban Orchestra’s 2018 composition competition and was recently performed by the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra.

Borzoni has composed songs and song cycles for leading vocalists, winning BARIHUNKS Best New Song (2015), Best New Solo Work for Baritone (2017), and multiple prizes in Sparks & Wiry Cries’ songSLAM. He has been honored with the Morton Feldman Award and the Boston Metro Opera Festival Award, and served as Resident Composer for Musica Marin from 2016 to 2020.

Beyond opera, Borzoni’s musical My Life as a Bald Soprano had an Off-Broadway run at the Midtown International Theater Festival, and he has scored three films for JR VISION, which were featured at the Take Two Film Festival, Miami Short Film Festival, SeriesFest, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, and Anthology Film Archives.

His music has been presented by Minnesota Opera, the Merola Opera Program, Glimmerglass Festival, the Bay View Music Festival, the Wintergreen Festival, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Symphony Space, La MaMA, and many other venues and universities.