Laura Elise Schwendinger composer

 

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Faculty page at UW Madison

Representation, Blakenship Robertson

Video, Leni Schwendinger's Night City with High Wire Act

Photo Gallery

When Laura Met Sting...

Some Upcoming Concerts    [check back in Summer 2016 for more]     _____________________________________________________

 

NEWS!

OPERA AMERICA ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF
OPERA GRANTS FOR FEMALE COMPOSERS

Supported by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

SEVEN COMPOSERS AND SEVEN OPERA COMPANIES
AWARDED A TOTAL OF $200,000
 

The most recent round of Discovery Grants attracted 68 applicants, and an independent adjudication panel selected seven composers to receive a total of $100,000. The recipients are Julia Adolphe for So Donia Speaks, Mary Ellen Childs for On Beyond, Emily Doolittle for Jan Tait and the Bear, Nkeiru Okoye for We’ve Got Our Eye On You, Rene Orth for Machine, Elena Ruehr for Crafting the Bonds and Laura Elise Schwendinger for Artemisia. This is the third round of Discovery Grants to be awarded since the program’s inception. See below for composer biographies and summaries of their operas.

Artemisia is a co-commission from Trinity Wall Street Novus, NY and the Left Coast Ensemble, SF.

http://operaamerica.org/Content/About/PressRoom/2016/04202016.aspx

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Until the Sunrise, Premiere. PianoForte Studios

Lakeshore Rush, Chicago, May 27, 2016

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Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra commission, Animal Rhapsody

Tuesday May 17, 7pm, Carpenter Theater Dominion Arts Center

Wganer Schickele, Guonod, and Schwendinger


The Residency of Laura Schwendinger is made possible through Music Alive: New Partnerships, a residency program of New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras. This national program is designed to establish new relationships between composers and orchestras, and to help orchestras present new music to the public and build support for new music within their institutions. Leadership funding for Music Alive is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music and The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund

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Llorona, a setting of the Mexican folk song

UW Concert Choir, Beverly Taylor Director

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Cortona Duo, Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway with CUSP, Princeton 2016

Love Sonnets, set to sonnets by William Shakespeare

for mezzo and violin, Cortona Sessions New Music Festival

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April 2, 2016 RICHMOND SYMPHONY

Altria masterworks series, Steven Smith Music Director, and featuring flutist Mary Boodell in Waking Dream

       part of a League of American Orchestras/ New Music USA residency

https://www.richmondsymphony.com/event/copland-appalachian-spring

RSO info page and [ Composer page]

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Seattle North Corner Chamber Orchestra plays Chiaro Di Luna

Dec. 13, 2015

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February 4, 2016

Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, The Edward T. Cone Series

High Wire Act with the New Millennium Ensemble

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Recent Concerts (featuring the JACK Quartet, Miranda Cuckson and Novus with Julian Wachner)

October 22, 24 2015

Ruckus Ensemble with Patricia Green

in performances of Lady Lazarus, and About a Mountain

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Oct. 9, 2015; C3 and Fonema

presents works, including the Kay Ryan Songs (2014)

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Nov. 8, 2015

Ensemble for These Times, 
Nannette McGuinness, The Jewish Music and Poetry Project 

Kay Ryan Songs (2014)
Peninsula Jeiwish Community Center, Foster City

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May 8, 2015 Creature Quartet Premiered with JACK with Animation by French Artist Pauline Gagniarre [ Promo here!]

at The Wisconsin Union Theater

Recorded by JACK on a forthcoming Albany CD 

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SINFONIETTA AT TRINITY CHURCH, MAY 21, 2015

with Julian Wachner and NOVUS NY

Video online at

https://vimeo.com/136732352

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Feb. 24 2015, at ZINC BAR, NY

Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen play Violinists in My Life

Recording of the work at Oktaven studio in June, 2015

 

Links to purchase

3 Works for Solo Instruments and Orchestra on Albany

High Wire Acts on Centaur