Meira Warshauer

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Meira Warshauer’s music expresses her personal spiritual journey and her love for the earth. As Music Web International wrote, “Warshauer’s music is shot through with and inspired by mystical and spiritual matters that span a love and respect for Mother Earth and the Jewish faith.” Review of Living Breathing Earth (NV5842). Performers and commissioners of her music include Dayton Philharmonic (OH), Allentown Symphony (PA), Slovak Radio Symphony, Orchestra Warsaw National Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic, South Carolina Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony, Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic (NY), Indiana State University Orchestra, Western Piedmont Symphony (NC) and Royal Scottish National Orchestra ; choruses Zamir Chorale of Boston, Rottenberg Chorale (NYC), Colla Voce (SC); ensembles Jerusalem Lyric Trio, Kaleidoscope Ensemble (U.K.), Arioso Ensemble (AK), Upton Trio, Cross Island, North South Consonance (NYC), Phillip Bush-Elizabeth Loparits Piano Duo, Orange Road String Quartet, Cello8ctet Amsterdam, Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo, Kobayashi-Grey duo, Opus Two, CUBE Contemporary Music Ensemble (Chicago); and soloists Paula Robison, Richard Stoltzman, Daniel Heifetz, Paul Lustig Dunkel, Haim Avitsur, Janet Hopkins, Mariya Kaganskaya, Ina Esther Joost, Richard Nunemaker, and Robert Jesselson. Tekeeyah (a call), the first ever Concerto for shofar, trombone, and orchestra, commissioned and premiered by a five-orchestra consortium, was paired with the American Prize-winning Symphony No. 1: Living, Breathing Earth (a three-orchestra commission) for Navona Records’ acclaimed 2011 release, Living Breathing Earth (NV5842). Hadassah Magazine wrote “Symphony No.1: Living Breathing Earth” is a shimmering, joyous and soothing ode to the world’s beauty…” Both works have been broadcast repeatedly on Performance Today, and Aileen LeBlanc’s profile of the Symphony was aired twice on PRI’s Living on Earth. Call of the Cicadas, a stand-alone movement from the Symphony, was featured in the Allentown Symphony’s “Go Green” concert honoring the 50th anniversary of Earth Day in spring 2020. Streams in the Desert, an all-Warshauer CD of music for orchestra and chorus inspired by the Torah includes Shacharit (Sabbath Morning Service), Ahavah (Love) (commissioned by SC Philharmonic) and Like Streams in the Desert (commissioned by Dayton Philharmonic). Recorded in Bratislava by Kirk Trevor and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Chorus, the Albany Records CD (Troy 973) has received wide praise. Choral works Akhat Sha’alti (One Thing I Ask) and Oseh Shalom (Maker of Peace) were part of the 2017 Ansonica CD release Chévere, and a second Ansonica CD Coro del Mundo (2018) featured We Are Dreamers. Both were recorded by Schola Coralina in Havana, Cuba. Ocean Calling for two pianos, a plea for the world’s live-giving oceans, was released on Navona (NV6535), 2023 as was Five Reflections for string quartet on Parma’s release Strung Together. For other recordings, please visit the discography page on her website: https://meirawarshauer.com/recordings/. She has received Residency Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Georgia’s Hambidge Center, and two Artist Fellowships in Music Composition from the South Carolina Arts Commission. She has also been awarded the American Prize 2024 Charles Ives Chamber Music Award, the 2017 National Flute Association’s Newly Published Music Competition and The International Alliance for Women in Music’s 2004 Miriam Gideon award. Symphony No. 1 Living Breathing Earth received a 2019 American Prize for Orchestra Composition. Other awards have come from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and the American Music Center. The Wilmington, NC native divides her time between Columbia, S.C. and Wrightsville Beach, N.C. For more information, visit meirawarshauer.com.

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