Contributors
photo: Ann Marsden
|
Libby
Larsen:
Libby Larsen is one of America's most prolific
and most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue
of over 200 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal
and chamber music to massive orchestral and choral scores She has
received numerous awards and accolades, including a 1994 Grammy
as producer of the CD: The Art of Arleen Augér. Ms Larsen
was the first woman to serve as a resident composer with a major
orchestra, she has held residencies with the California Institute
of the Arts, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, the Philadelphia School
of the Arts, the Cincinnati Conservatory, the Minnesota Orchestra,
the Charlotte Symphony, and the Colorado Symphony. In 1973, she
co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers
Forum, which has been an invaluable advocate for composers in a
difficult, transitional time for American arts. |
photo: Jerome de Perlingui
|
Augusta
Read Thomas:
Augusta Read Thomas is a Professor on the composition faculty at
Northwestern University, and is on the Board of Directors of the
American Music Center. She previously taught at the Eastman School
of Music, and she is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Thomas' chamber-opera LIGEIA won the prestigious International
Orpheus Prize. She has also received numerous prizes and awards
from: ASCAP, BMI, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, and the Koussevitzky Foundation- just to name a few!
|
photo: Steven J. Sherman
|
Joan
Tower:
Joan Tower is one of this generation's most dynamic and colorful
composers. Her bold and energetic music, with its striking imagery
and novel structural forms, has won large, enthusiastic audiences.
She was founder and pianist with the 1973 Naumburg Award-winning
ensemble the Da Capo Chamber Players. Today, she is composer-in-residence
for the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Ms Tower has been the recipient
of several prestigious awards including the Alfred I. DuPont Award
for Distinguished American Composers and Conductors. She is currently
Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College, where she has
taught since 1972. She is also composer-in-residence of the Yale/Norfolk
Chamber Music Festival, and composer-in-residence at the Muir Quartet
Festival at Park City, Utah |
photo:Michael Kuller
|
Judith
Lang Zaimont:
Judith Lang Zaimont is an internationally-recognized composer with
an impressive catalogue of close to 100 works, many of which are
prize-winning compositions. These include two symphonies, chamber
opera, oratorios and cantatas, music for wind ensemble, vocal-chamber
pieces with varying accompanying ensembles, a wide variety of chamber
works, and solo music for string and wind instruments, piano, organ,
and voice. Her many composition awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship;
Maryland State Arts Council creative fellowship and commission grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts and American Composers
Forum .
Formerly a member of the faculties of Queens College and Baltimore's
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Judith Zaimont currently holds the
post of Professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota
School of Music. She is also the founder and co-director of the
New York-based performing ensemble, AMERICAN ACCENT, and creator
and editor-in-chief of the critically acclaimed book series, The
Musical Woman: An International Perspective (3 vols., Greenwood
Press). |
| |
Karin
Pendle:
Musicologist Karin Pendle has written extensively on women in music.
Her articles have appeared in Musical Quarterly, Music and Letters,
Music Review, Journal of Musicology, Opera News, and the New Grove
Dictionary of Opera and Contemporary Music Review and second edition
of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She is editor
for Women
in Music, available from Indiana University Press. |
|
