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, Th?�tre Ch�telet, 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:
- – Nightingales for two violins and orchestra
- – Artemisia
- 1986 – Duo for Flute and Piano
- 1990 – the sky a silver dissonance
- 1991 – Lament
- 1992 – Sonata for Solo Violin
- 1996 – Pointillisms
- 1997 – Rumor
- 1997 – Songs of Heaven and Earth for Mezzo-Soprano and Septet
- 1998 – Chiaro di Luna
- 1999 – Rapture for Flute and Piano
- 1999 – Magic Carpet Music for Flute, Clarinet, Violin and Cello
- 2000 – `POP See Chiaro di Luna Bellagio Suite
- 2001 – String Quartet in three movements
- 2002 – Celestial City
- 2003 – Rapture for Cello and Piano
- 2003 – Nonet
- 2005 – Betes de la Mer (Oceania)
- 2005 – New 2 Little Whos for Mandolin and Guitar
- 2005 – High Wire Act
- 2005 – Respiro
- 2006 – Basso-Non-profundo
- 2006 – 2 Little Whos for Violin and Guitar
- 2006 – Cé la Luna Questa Sera?
- 2007 – Esprimere
- 2008 – Van Gogh Nocturnes
- 2008 – Rapture for Clarinet and Piano
- 2008 – Chiaroscuro Azzurro
- 2008 – Cow Music
- 2008 – Three’s a Crowd
- 2008 – Song for Andrew
- 2009 – Waking Dream
- 2009 – Garden of Earthly Delights
- 2009 – Magic Carpet Music for Piano
- 2010 – Equatorial Jungle, The
- 2010 – Brushstrokes
- 2010 – All the Pretty Little Horses
- 2011 – Mise-en-Scene
- 2011 – Iridos
- 2011 – Shadings
- 2011 – Llorona
- 2011 – About A Mountain, for Mezzo-Soprano and Flute
- 2012 – Sudden Light, for Mezzo-Soprano and String Trio
- 2012 – Treetop Studio
- 2013 – Arc of Fire
- 2013 – Sinfonietta
- 2013 – Violinists in My Life, The
- 2013 – Constellations
- 2014 – Wet Ink
- 2014 – Kay Ryan Songs for Voice, Cello and Piano
- 2015 – Rapture for Horn and Piano
- 2015 – Aviary
- 2015 – Creature Quartet
- 2016 – Animal Rhapsody
- 2016 – Love Sonnets, for Mezzo-Soprano and Violin
- 2016 – Until the Sunrise
- 2017 – Three Movements for Solo Viola
- 2017 – For Paris for Wordless Choir and Solo Viola
- 2017 – Artist’s Muse, The
- 2017 – Far Over the Misty Mountains
- 2018 – Eclipse for Twelve Instruments