Laura Schwendinger
The first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin Prize, Laura Schwendinger is a Professor of Composition at UW Madison. Her music, performed by leading artists of our day, Dawn Upshaw (on tour 1997-2013; TDK/Naxos DVD), Arditti& JACK Quartets, Jennifer Koh, Janine Jansen, Miranda Cuckson, Matt Haimovitz, ICE, Eighth Blackbird, New Juilliard Ensemble, Collage, StonyBrook Premiere, Boston Musica Viva, Aspen Ensemble, Dinosaur Annex, Trinity Choir NOVUS, American Composers Orchestra and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and at Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln-Center, Times Center, Symphony Space, BargeMusic, Corcoran Gallery, Institute of Advanced Study-Princeton and Tanglewood, Aspen and Ojai Music Festivals; and at the National Arts Centre Canada, Théâtre Châtelet, Wigmore Hall, and Berlin Philharmonic. She was recently the American League of Orchestras Composer in residency with the Richmond Symphony. Her honors include a Guggenheim, Koussevitzky (2), Fromm, Radcliffe Institute, Copland House, Harvard Musical Association, Chamber Music America, League of American Orchestras, New Music USA, two American Academy of Arts and Letters awards (a Goddard Leiberson Fellowship for “mid-career composer of exceptional gifts” and Ives scholarship), First-prize ALEA III, MacDowell (9), Yaddo (7), Tyrone Guthrie Center(5), Bogliasco and Rockefeller Bellagio Centers. Premieres include a Miller Theater commission, ACO UnSafe Commission, Sounding Beckett (Off-Broadway, Classic Stage Co.), and a National Opera Center award for her opera Artemisia, which will be produced in NY and SF. Her reviews include..“Evok(ing) a sense of serene mystery and infinite beauty”, “evincing an acute sonic imagination and sure command of craft.”, “darkly attractive, artful and moving…” "talent to burn…ballsy, confident music-making in both writing and execution…proves that serious contemporary music does not have to dumb down to be immediately accessible and emotional”,“…her music has at its core her own impressive point of view… … displays an acute ear for engaging melodic contours and evocative settings”, “not a single moment in her works sounds contrived, formulaic, or artificial…intensely and strongly "alive", “This was shrewd composing, the genuine article. Onto the ''season's best'' list it goes.” The NY Times Playlist review of her High Wire Acts, “The works grouped together on this captivating disc… she sketches musical short stories of somnambulant fragility and purpose.”
Titles:
- 1990 X814052 – the sky a silver dissonance
- 2008 X504095 – Song for Andrew
- 2001 X504097 – String Quartet in three movements
- 2014 X652714 – Wet Ink
- 2014 X815104 – Kay Ryan Songs for Voice, Cello and Piano
- 2011 R01575 – Shadings
- 2017 X662811 – Artist’s Muse, The
- 2008 R01577 – Chiaroscuro Azzurro
- 2010 X662808 – Brushstrokes
- 2012 X622509 – Treetop Studio
- 2005 R01574 – Betes de la Mer (Oceania)
- 2013 X503047 – Arc of Fire
- 2016 R01573 – Animal Rhapsody
- 1997 R01582 – Songs of Heaven and Earth for Mezzo-Soprano and Septet
- 2017 X520014 – For Paris for Wordless Choir and Solo Viola
- 1998 R01581 – Chiaro di Luna
- 2012 X815302 – Sudden Light, for Mezzo-Soprano and String Trio
- 2006 X503048 РC̩ la Luna Questa Sera?
- 1999 X662809 – Magic Carpet Music for Flute, Clarinet, Violin and Cello
- 1991 X503049 – Lament
- 2011 X110028 – Iridos
- 2003 R01572 – Nonet
- 2008 X203003 – Three’s a Crowd
- 2018 R01571 – Eclipse for Twelve Instruments
- 2002 X652712 – Celestial City
- 2013 X624512 – Constellations
- 2009 R01579 – Waking Dream
- 2009 X410114 – Magic Carpet Music for Piano
- 2016 X662812 – Until the Sunrise
- 2003 X531026 – Rapture for Cello and Piano
- 2013 X511054 – Violinists in My Life, The
- 2007 R01578 – Esprimere
- 1996 X410115 – Pointillisms
- 2015 X305005 – Aviary
- 1999 X111024 – Rapture for Flute and Piano
- 2011 X662810 – Mise-en-Scene
- 2008 X826201 – Cow Music
- 2005 X652713 – High Wire Act
- 2015 X211006 – Rapture for Horn and Piano
- 2009 X662504 – Garden of Earthly Delights
- 2010 X302009 – Equatorial Jungle, The
- 2008 X410116 – Van Gogh Nocturnes
- 2006 X540011 – Basso-Non-profundo
- 2017 X121011 – Far Over the Misty Mountains
- 1997 X622508 – Rumor
- 2013 R01576 – Sinfonietta
- 2006 X502022 – 2 Little Whos for Violin and Guitar
- 2015 X504096 – Creature Quartet
- 2005 X502021 – New 2 Little Whos for Mandolin and Guitar
- 1992 X510043 – Sonata for Solo Violin
- 2010 X530030 – All the Pretty Little Horses
- 2011 X811003 – About A Mountain, for Mezzo-Soprano and Flute
- 2008 X131023 – Rapture for Clarinet and Piano
- 2011 X940032 – Llorona
- 2016 X815008 – Love Sonnets, for Mezzo-Soprano and Violin
- 1986 X111023 – Duo for Flute and Piano