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Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series
A performance of works by Laura Schwendinger with Christopher Taylor, Sarah Brailey, Sally Chisholm, Dawn Dongeun Wohn, Conor Nelson, Alicia Lee, Trace Johnson, Matthew, and Matthew Schneider
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Laura Schwendinger, composer of Artemisia, winner of the 2023 American Academy of Arts and Letters Opera award, was the first composer to win the Berlin Prize. A Professor of music composition at UW–Madison, her works have been championed by Dawn Upshaw, Jennifer Koh, Janine Jansen, Matt Haimovitz, the Arditti, JACK and Spektral Quartets, International Contemporary Ensemble, Eighth-Blackbird, Juilliard, American Composers Orchestra, and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Hungary.
Her music has been performed at the Kennedy & Lincoln Centers, Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore & Carnegie Halls, Miller Theater & Théâtre Châtelet, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ojai, Talis, & Bennington Music Festivals. She has received further fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, First Prize of the 1995 ALEA III International Competition, as well as multiple fellowships from the American Academy Arts Letters, Copland House, Fromm, Koussevitzky and Bogliasco Foundations, MacDowell and Yaddo Colonies.
Her music has been called “captivating, artful and moving”, “music of infinite beauty” in the New York Times, as well as “the genuine article..onto the ’season’s best list “ in the Boston Globe. Recent premieres include her second opera, Cabaret of Shadows, a Fromm Commission produced by Musiqa in Houston, Nightingales for Eleanor Bartsch and Ariana Kim, a consortium commission with the Dubuque & UW Symphony Orchestras, and a harp concerto, Second Sight for Atlanta Symphony Principal Harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson, commissioned for the 100th anniversary of the Emory University Orchestra program, a solo cello work, commissioned as part of Matt Haimovitz’s Primavera Project and Silent Springs for Cantori’s 40th anniversary concert. A San Francisco Classical Voice review of her opera read “Artemisia is sumptuous on every level” and Colin Clarke wrote of her JACK CD QUARTETS, “the sheer intensity of the music is spellbinding…the passion shines through like..light.”
