RESUME

 

Laura Elise Schwendinger

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Associate Professor of Composition
Artistic Director, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music

lschwendinge@wisc.edu
Main Office Phone: 608-263-1900; Fax: 608-262-8876
3561 Humanities, 455 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1483

lschwendinge@wisc.edu
http://www.lauraschwendinger.com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1993 Ph.D. in Music, University of California at Berkeley; Field of Study: Composition. Dissertation: Chamber Concerto

 

1987 M.A., University of California at Berkeley.

 

1985 B.M., Boston Conservatory of Music. Composition major.

 

1981 San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Composition major.

 

Principal studies with: Andrew Imbrie, Olly Wilson, John Thow, Larry Bell, John Adams.  Additional studies : Milton Babbitt, Martin Bresnick, Paul Chihara, Jacob Druckman, Donald Erb, Richard Felciano, Donald Martino, George Perle, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Joan Tower, Chinary Ung

 

HONORS

 

July 2011    MacDowell Residency, for Fall 2011

Feb. 2011   Yaddo Residency, for August, 2011

Jan. 2011    Nominated for Grawemeyer Prize in by Nicole Paiement, Artistic Director Ensemble Parallele

Jan. 2011   UW Madison, Fall Research Competition Grant recipient

Aug. 2010  Yaddo Residency

July 2010  American Composers Orchestra Commission, UnSafe series. Shadings premiered at Zankel hall/ Carnegie Hall, March 4, 2010, with composers Joan La Barbara, Henry Threadgill, Sean Friar

June 2010   23rd Annual Stony Brook Premiere Series Commission. Premiere at Stony Brook (11/16/10), Merkin Hall, New York (11/17/10)

Fall 2010    Nominated for Pulitzer Prize in Music by School of Music, UW Madison

Spring 2010   Recording Grant for CD with Albany records featuring concertos with Matt Haimovitz and Curtis Macomber; The Aaron Copland Fund for Music

2009 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters , "Given to to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts."

 

2009 Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome

 

2008 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

 

2008 Romnes Faculty Felowship, University of Wisconsin Madison

 

2008 Yaddo Colony, fellowship

 

2007 Copland House Award.

 

2006 Commission for a "Pocket Concerto" from Miller Theater, George Steel, Director. Columbia University

 

2006 July-Aug. MacDowell Colony Residency

 

2006 Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts, University of Wisconsin Arts Institute

 

Dec. 2005 Grant from Graduate Research Committee, University of Wisconsin, for cello Concerto, Esprimere.

 

Oct. 2005 Nomination, American Academy in Rome Fellowship.

 

2005 Yaddo Colony, Jane Adams Wait fellowship for June residency.

 

Winter 2005 Nonet nominated for University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award by the Chicago Chamber Musicians.

 

Summer 2004 MacDowell Colony residency.

 

Jan. 2004 Celestial City Nominated for University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award by Spectrum Concerts Berlin.

 

Jan. 2004 Commendation, Oare String Orchestra Third International Composing Competition.

 

Nov. 2003 Chosen for presentation at Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference Rapture for cello and piano.

 

Oct. 2003 Nomination, American Academy of Arts and Letters award in music.

 

May 2003 Jory copying assistance grant, from the American Music Center.

 

October 2002 Chancellor's External Grant award, University of Illinois at Chicago.

 

September 2002 Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

 

2002 North Shore MacDowell Society of Allied Arts Fellowship.

 

February 2002 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship.

 

August 2001 Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission.

 

June 2001 Illinois Arts Council grant.

 

Jan. 2001 Chosen for presentation at Society of Composers, Inc. 36th National Conference, Syracuse University, Rapture for flute and piano.

 

December 2000 Grant from Office of Vice Chancellor at University of Illinois at Chicago in support of a recording project with theChicago Chamber Musicians.

 

November 1999 Fromm Music Foundation Commission.

 

September 1999 Nomination for the Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

 

May 1999 American Academy in Berlin Prize Fellowship, musical composition. First composer to be awarded.

 

April 1999 Grant award from the OVCR-AAH, Office of the Vice Chancellor at University of Illinois at Chicago in support of a new concert work.

 

March 1999 Harvard Musical Association Commission.

 

January 1999 Nomination of Songs of Heaven and Earth by the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center for consideration by University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award.

 

Fall 1998, 1999 Nomination for Stoeger Prize of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

 

Oct. 1998 Nomination, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.

 

January 1998 Grant from the American Composers Forum Performance Incentive Fund for performance of Songs of Heaven and Earth.

 

December 1997 Grant from Meet The Composer, Sponsored by the Theater Chamber Players of Kennedy Center.

 

Nov. 1997 Aorewa for Orchestra chosen for the Berkeley Symphony, Under Construction.

 

Summer 1997 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Fellowship.

 

Summer 1997 Co-Winner of IAWM, 1997 National Annual Concert score search.

 

- Reviewed by Cecelia Porter of the Washington Post " Laura Schwendinger's clearly structured Rumor revels in sinewy counterpoint as the instruments alternately vie and entwine in heated discourse"

 

Spring1997 Co-Winner of IAWM, Chicago CUBE ensemble 1997 score search.

 

Nov. 1996 Chamber Concerto chosen by SCI panel of judges for CD series.

 

July 1996 Cascade Range chosen for presentation at Society of Composers, Inc. 30th National Conference, Florida International University.

 

April 1996 Teacher's Recognition Certificate from National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts.

 

January 1996 Chamber Concerto sponsored by ALEA III for consideration by University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award.

 

December 1995 Grant from Meet The Composer, Sponsored by the Theater Chamber Players of Kennedy Center.

 

Sept. 27,1995 First Prize Winner, ALEA III International Composition Competition for Chamber Concerto.

 

July 1995 Finalist, ALEA III International Composition Prize for Young Composers. Concert September 27, Boston. Premiere of Chamber Concerto.

 

Sept. 1995 Barlow Judges' Commendation, Barlow Endowment for Music Composition.

 

July 1995 Ellen Battell Stoekel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Music, Contemporary Music Program, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

 

April 1995 Fable chosen for presentation at Society of Composers, Inc. 28th National Conference, the University of Iowa. April 5-8, 1995.

 

April 1995 Scholarship from NEA for Atlantic Center For the Arts Residency.

 

1994 Norton Stevens Fellowship, the MacDowell Colony for the Arts.

 

1994 Honorable Mention, Friday Morning Music Club's Washington International Competition for Composers.

 

1993 Charles Ives Scholarship, The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

 

1993 Music Associates of Aspen scholarship for attendance at the Aspen Advanced Masterclass for Compositional Studies.

 

1993 Night Dances for Orchestra selected by the Marin Symphony for Composer's Symposium Orchestral Reading.

 

- Reviewed by Robert Commanday of the San Francisco Chronicle as "... a very intense, dark work, Night Dances, music of considerable power".

 

1992 Night Dances for Orchestra selected by the Women's Philharmonic New Music Reading Session.

 

1992 Finalist, Women's Philharmonic Commissioning Project.

 

1988- 1991 Finalist, ASCAP Young Composer's Competition.

 

1988,'90,'92 Nomination, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award.

 

1988 Prize recipient, Nicola De Lorenzo Music Competition, U.C., Berkeley.

 

1987- 1988 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship , U.C., Berkeley

 

1985, '86,'89 Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship at U.C., Berkeley

 

1984- 1985 Elected to Who's Who, Students in American Universities & Colleges.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

Current

-University of Wisconsin Madison

Professor of Composition

Artistic Director of the UW Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

 

-University of Illinois at Chicago, 1998- present

2004-2005 Associate Professor of Composition and Theory.

1998-2004 Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory.

 

-San Francisco Conservatory of Music

1998 Summer Faculty Composition Instructor, Summer Music West Program, Composition Intensive, San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ages 15-20.

1989- 1998 Faculty Instructor, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Prep Program.

Classes taught: Counterpoint, Harmony, Form and Analysis, Conducting. Composition, coordinator of composition concerts, conducting of student works.

 

-University of California Santa Cruz

Spring 1998 Lecturer, Music 13: Beginning Theory and Musicianship

Winter 1998 Film Music- Music 80m, Music 14: Theory and Musicianship.

Fall 1997 Music 13: Beginning Theory and Musicianship.

 

-Smith College

Spring 1997 Visiting Lecturer: Film Music.

 

-University of California at Berkeley

1987- 1990 Instructor, Young Musicians' Program,

 

Duties included conducting sectional rehearsals and individual coaching.

Courses taught: Theory, Ear Training, Composition, Flute, Chamber Music Coach, in charge of composition concerts, conducting student works.

1988- 1989 Teaching Assistant to Conductor Michael Senturia of the U.C.Symphony

 

1986- 1987 Graduate Student Instructor for Intro to Music, a Music History survey course, U.C., Berkeley.

Teaching duties included three sections per week (80-120 students) music 27; (music appreciation, music history, and musicianship).

 

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2006- Current Artistic Director, University of Wisconsin Contamporary Chamber Ensemble

August 2011 National Endowment Judging panel.

2006-present Artistic Director, University of Wisconsin Contemporary Chamber Ensemble

Feb. 2011 University of Illinois, Red Note Festival, Composition competition judging panelist.

Feb. 2011 MTNA Composition competition judging panel.

Jan. 24, 2011 Masterclass Presenter, University of California, Davis

Dec. 10, 2010 Masterclass Presenter, University of Boulder, Colorado

Oct. 9, 2010 Masterclass Presenter, an Francisco Conservatory of Music

May 20, 2010 Panelist, Kentucky Arts Council

Spring 2010 Speaker, Humanities Center Luncheon Series

March 26, Presenter featured composer, Illinois State University New Music Festival, with Sheila Silver and Augusta-Read Thomas
2009

Spring 2008 Ragdale Colony, Composition panel

Spring 2006 Managing Director, University of Wisconsin Contemporary Chamber Ensemble Organized UWCCE's Spring tour with Universities of Minnesota and Iowa

 

Nov. 24 2006 Presenter at Royal Irish Academyof Music , Composition Seminar.

 

Nov. 14 2006 Presenter at University of Oklahoma , Composition Seminar.

 

Nov. 13 2006 Presenter at Oklahoma City University , Composition Seminar.

 

Oct. 14 2005 Presenter at University of California Berkeley , Composition Seminar.

 

Oct. 9 2005 Presenter at San Fransisco Conservatory of Music, Composition Seminar.

 

January 2005 Featured in Voice of America Radio production on NPR about the MacDowell Colony.

 

June 2004 Presenter at Northwestern University Composition Seminar.

 

1997-2003 Co-editor, New Modern Music, a web journal funded by the Ditson Fund of Columbia University.

 

April 7, 2003 Presenter at Harvard University Composition Seminar. with the Harvard Group for Contemporary Music.

 

March 21, 2003 Presenter at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Harvard University.

 

March 15-May2, 2003 Solo show of Photography at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; 2003 Harvard University.

 

March,2001-2003 Adjudicator: National Parent Teachers Association Reflections Composition Competition.

 

Dec. 2002 Adjudicator: 2002 Music Teachers National Association Composition Competition.

 

June 6, 2002 Presenter at Northwestern University Composition Seminar.

 

April 26, 2002 Coordinator of Spring Festival of Student Composers with students from Northwestern University, De Paul University, Roosevelt University and Columbia College.

 

April 26, 2002 Coordinator of UIC-CSO Forum with Anders Nordentoft and Simon Bainbridge, Augusta Reed Thomas-moderator.

 

Feb. 22, 2001 Coordinator of UIC-CSO Forum, Augusta Reed Thomas- CSO Composer in residence, presenter.

 

Feb. 5, 2001 Presenter at Cleveland State University Composition Seminar.

 

June 2, 2000 Public Lecturer, American Academy in Berlin.

 

Nov. 29, 1999 Co-Coordinator UIC-CSO Forum,with Philippe Manoury. Panel discussion at University of Illinois at Chicago. Panelists included Marta Ptaszynska, and Howard Sandroff, University of Chicago Faculty.

 

Nov. 5, 1999 Presenter at Illinois State Music Teacher's Association.

 

Sept. 29, 1999 Presenter at Northwestern University Composition Seminar.

 

April 21, 1999 Co-coordinator of John Harbison Panel Discussion at University of Illinois at Chicago. Panelists included Henry Fogel- President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Augusta Reed Thomas- CSO Composer in Residence.

 

March, 1999 Departmental Initiator for $36,000. awarded by the Provost, University of Illinois at Chicago, for Digital Audio and Computer Music Technology lab.

 

Feb. 4,1999 Presenter at The University of Chicago Composition Seminar.

 

October 1998 Presenter at Roosevelt University Composition Seminar.

 

October 1998 Presenter at Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Italy..

 

1997 Developed Film Music Colloquium for Smith College.

 

Spring 1997 Research Associate, Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, MA.

 

October 1995 Adjudicator: 1995 California Association of Professional Music Teachers, Inc./ Music Teachers National Association, Inc. Student Composition Contest.

 

March 12,1993 Presenter at the University of Southern California Composer's Colloquia.

 

1988 Graduate Composition representative serving on the Graduate Committee of the Department of Music, U.C., Berkeley.

 

1987 President and Concert Coordinator of New Music at Berkeley at U.C. in charge of grant writing, programming and concert preparation.

 

1984-1985 North House Music Society Publicity Manager at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, in charge of concert programming and publicity.

 

June-Aug.'84-86 Concert Coordinator at the Musical Offering Record Store, Berkeley.

 

1979- 1988 Private flute instructor in Berkeley, CA.

 

 

FESTIVAL FELLOWSHIPS AND ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES

 

July 2011    MacDowell Residency, for Fall 2011

Feb. 2011   Yaddo Residency, for August, 2011

Aug. 2010  Yaddo Residency

2009 Visting Artist, American Academy in Rome

 

Sept. 2008 Resident Composer, KOFOMI Festival Austria

 

Oct. 2008 Artist in Residence, Land Salzburg; Salzburg Austria

 

Oct. 2008 Residency, Tryone Guthrie Center, Ireland

 

2008 Yaddo Colony, fellowship

 

2007 for July 2008 residency, Copland House Award.

 

July-August 2006 Residency, MacDowell Colony

June 2006 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland.

Feb 2005/2006 Celestial City and High Wire Act presented at Florida State University New Music Festival

Nov. 2005 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland.

 

May/June 2005 Wait Residency, Yaddo Colony.

 

May 2005 Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland.

 

July 2004 Resident Fellow, MacDowell Colony for the Arts. Also in residence:

May 2002, July-Aug. 2000, June 1997, July 1996, June 1994

 

August, 2003 California E.A.R. Unit Composer Residency, Arcosanti.

 

July-August 2003 Resident Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Also in residence June-July 2001, July 1999, and accepted for residency June 1995.

 

June 2002 Resident Fellow, Ragdale Foundation.

 

Feb. 2002 Resident Fellow, Bogliasco Foundation's Liguria Center, Genoa, Italy.

 

Spring 2000Resident Fellow, the American Academy in Berlin, as recipient of the 1999 Prize Fellowship in musical composition.

 

July 1998 Composition Fellow, Ernest Bloch Music Festival with Donald Martino. Ce la Luna Questa Sera? premiered.

 

July 1997 Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference Center. Project: Songs of Heaven and Earth for The Theater Chamber Players.

 

August 1996 Resident Fellow, Yaddo Corporation.

 

June 1996 Composition Fellow, the American Composer-Conductor Program, at the Conductor's Institute at the Hartt School of Music.

 

July 1995 Composition Fellow, Ernest Bloch Music Festival with Paul Chihara Asherah for solo saxophone performed by Joseph Wytko.

 

June1995 Composition Fellow, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival of the Yale Summer School of Music Composition & Contemporary Music Seminar, These Verses Hold... premiered.

 

May 1995 Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL. Associate Artist. with Chinary Ung.

 

January 1995 Associate Artist, Atlantic Center, FL., with M. Davidovsky.

 

Sept.1994 Resident Artist, Millay Colony for the Arts ( Also accepted for June 1993 residency)

 

July 1994 Composition Fellow, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. (Also accepted with scholarship,Summer 1993)

 

June 1994 Composition Fellow, June in Buffalo at SUNY Buffalo. Fable for sextet performed. With Milton Babbitt, Donald Erb, Roger Reynolds and David Felder.

 

May 1994 Composition Fellow, May in Miami Young Composer's Festival, Florida International University with Bernard Rands. Lament for string trio performed.

 

January 1994 Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Associate Artist with Milton Babbitt.

 

Nov. 1993 Composition Fellow, Pierre Boulez Composers/Conductors Workshop, Carnegie Hall.

 

Summer 1993 Composition Fellow with full scholarship. Advanced Masterclass Program, Aspen Center for Composition with Bernard Rands and Jacob Druckman. Fable performed by Aspen Contemporary Music Ensemble.

 

June 1993 Composition Fellow, June in Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo with Bernard Rands, Charles Wuorinen, Donald Erb and David Felder. Lament for string trio performed.

 

August 1992 Resident Composer, Summer Program of the Charles Ives Center for American Music. Sonata for solo violin performed by Victor Schultz.

 

July 1992 Composition Fellow, Ernest Bloch Music Festival with Chinary Ung.

 

Summers1989-1991,'92 Composition Fellow, Composer's Institute at Gunther Schuller's Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho with Milton Babbitt, Andrew Imbrie, George Perle, Gunther Schuller.

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

See Works for works list

 

2012               CD: High Wire Acts; Chamber Music by Laura Elise Schwendinger on Centaur Records

2012               CD: Chiaroscuro Azzurro, Works for solo instrument and orchestra: Esprimere with Matt Haimovitz; Chiaroscuro Azzurro with Curtis MaComber and Waking Dream

                        with Christina Jennings, with the UW Sinfonetta and members of the ProArte String Quartet, Albany Records

Upcoming      CD: Complete piano music, featuring Christopher Taylor-piano

Upcoming      CD: Sole Nero with Jessica Johnson and Anthony Di’Sanza; Equatorial Jungle on Equilibrium Records

August 2011   CD: The Lincoln Trio, Notable Women; works by Higdon, Thomas, Garrop and Schwendinger: Cé la Luna Questa Sera? Cedille Records

Sept.14, 2009  Remembering Dina Koston, NewMusicBox, The Web Journal from The American Music Center; http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6118

2007               The View From Here, published in the November Issue of Poetry Magazine

2004              DVD Voices of Our Time, In Just Spring-Dawn Upshaw recital at the Theatre Chatelet, Paris. TDK Naxos

2001              Chansons Innocentes for voice and piano. Hildegard Publishing, Bryn Mawr. Available from Theodore Presser.

July 1997       Chamber Concerto SCI CD Series,#10 Capstone Records - 8639. - Reviewed by the American Record Guide as " a melodic and atmospheric work"

Spring 1998   A Composer's Guide to Music Festivals, New Modern Music (1). CD review: Chamber Music of Andrew Imbrie, New Modern Music (1).

                     Web journal funded through Columbia Ditson Fund: academic.csuohio.edu/nmmusic

Dec.1992      Point of Balance, score for piano. Freeland Pub. #34: Berkeley, CA

June 1990     the sky a silver dissonance, score for Baritone Voice and Piano, Poem by E.E. Cummings. Freeland Publications: Berkeley, CA. FP 19

July- August 1989 Co-author, "The Listening Composer: George Perle as Bloch Lecturer", Cum Notis Variorum

 

 

 

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