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
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.
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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.
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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
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:
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
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