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<Composers><Composer><name><first>Beth</first><middle></middle><last>Anderson</last></name><biography>A
composer of neo-romantic music, text-sound works and musical theater
events.  University of California, Mills College (MFA, MA).  Recorded by
North/South  Consonance, Opus One, 1750 Arch, and Newport Classics.
Taught: Greenwich House Music School, NYU, College of New Rochelle.
References: &quot;New Grove Directory of American Music&quot;, &quot;The
Pandora Guide to Women Composers&quot;, St. James Press&apos;
&quot;Contemporary
Composers.&quot;</biography><email>beand@interport.net</email><url>http://www.users.interport.net/~beand/</url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Dorothea</first><middle></middle><last>Austin</last></name><biography>Professor
at Queensborough Community College; Degrees: Performance, Teaching,
Royal College, Royal Academy of Music, London; M.A. Composition, Queens
College, NYC; Studied with Leo Kraft, George Perle; Style: 20th Century
Lyricism, Cell Manipulation, Motivic Interplay; Performed: Carnegie,
Merkin Hall, University Concert Series,
television.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Elizabeth</first><middle></middle><last>Austin</last></name><biography>Goucher
College(BA), Fontainebleau Conservatoire Americaine (1958:Boulanger),
Hartt School (M.M.), University of Connecticut (Ph.D.); Publishers:
Arsis Press, Peter Tonger Verlag; Recordings: Capstone; recent grants:
Connecticut Commission on the Arts; recent awards: Nashville Music
Awards nominee; ties to Mannheim (Germany) Musikhochschule, Brandenburg
(Germany) Colloquium for New
Music.</biography><email>austin@uconnvm.uconn.edu</email><url>http://www.amc.net/amc/member/Elizabeth-Austin/home.html</url><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Lydia</first><middle></middle><last>Ayers</last></name><biography>Dr.
Lydia Ayers, currently a Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, works with unlimited just intonation on the NeXT
computer and with a 75-tone Indian/Partch scale on a tubular percussion
instrument built by Woodstock Percussion.  She has extensively
researched the Partch, Indian, and Arabic, microtonal systems, has given
workshops in microtonal music and has worked with extended vocal and
woodwind techniques, including quarter tones, multiphonics, buzz tones,
and other unusual flute timbres. Microtonal research has taken her to
Tunisia, and she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Electronic
Music in New York in
1990.</biography><email>layers@cs.ust.hk</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Elizabeth</first><middle></middle><last>Bell</last></name><biography>Wellesley,
Juilliard (Mennin, Giannini) composition 1953. Music critic Ithaca
Journal, 1971-1975. Commissions: New York State Council on the Arts,
David Bradshaw/Cosmo Buono, Inoue Chamber Ensemble, North/South
Consonance, Putnam Valley (New York) Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, Vienna
Modern
Masters.</biography><email>belfri@msn.com</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Barbara</first><middle></middle><last>Benary</last></name><biography>Composer,
performer, ethnomusicologist (PhD Wesleyan U). Co-founder and artistic
director of Gamelan Son of Lion, repertory ensemble in NYC.
Compositional works for chamber orchestra and theater and dance. Styles
involve process and minimalism as well as traditional melodic forms from
western history and world music. Works distributed by Frog Peak Music
and American Gamelan
Institute.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Marilyn</first><middle></middle><last>Bliss</last></name><biography>M.M.
University of Pennsylvania; teachers: Crumb, Rochberg, Druckman;
fellowships: Tanglewood, Composers Conference, NY Foundation for the
Arts; Ives Prize; American Academy. Flutist/composer; co-founder Amara
Ensemble.</biography><email>73304.1643@compuserve.com</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Tamara</first><middle>Maria</middle><last>Bliss</last></name><biography>Manhattan
School of Music (MM), Barnard College B.A., Conservatoire de Musique,
Fontainbleau (France), Faculty Member The New School; Taught at: La
Escuela de Musica, Universidad de Mexico; Woverhamptom University
(England), and CUNY.  Teachers - Piano: Iturbi, Ashman, Zaslavsky,
Casadessus; Composition: Ulehla, Luening, Ruth
Anderson.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Victoria</first><middle></middle><last>Bond</last></name><biography>BM
University of Southern California, MM and DMA Juilliard; teachers:
Ingolf Dahl, Roger Sessions, Vincent Persichetti, Paul Glass. Awards:
Victor Herbert, ASCAP, Perry F. Kendig.
</biography><email>Bond006@concentric.net</email><url>http://www.cris.com/%7EBond006/</url><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Linda</first><middle></middle><last>Bouchard</last></name><biography>Composer-in
Residence, National Arts Center, Ottawa, Canada, 1992 - present.
Manhattan School of Music, NYC, Bennington College, Vermont. Conductor,
composer. Fellowships: MacDowell, (Alpha Chi Omega), Millay, Yaddo,
Sweet Briar and Camargo.  Prizes, awards: Indiana State University
Contest, NACUSA 1st, 4 prizes with BMI
Canada.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Dawn</first><middle></middle><last>Buckholz</last></name><biography>Cellist,
vocalist, educator. Graduated Manhattan School of Music and NYU. Member
CELLOVISION!, Soldier String Quartet, 1993 Young Composer/Choreographer
program at American Dance Festival, New Dramatists Composer/Librettist
Program 1993, Meet The Composer
Grant.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Karen</first><middle></middle><last>Campbell</last></name><biography>BME
UIllinois, Summa Cum Laude; composer, performer, choreographer, writer.
Editor American Women Composers magazine. Performed with Santa Fe Opera,
Relache, Philly Pops, Philharmonia
Virtuosi.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Nancy</first><middle>Laird</middle><last>Chance</last></name><biography>Bryn
Mawr, Columbia, Post. Luening, Ussachevsky. Perf: Orchestras -
Philadelphia, St. Louis, ACO, Jupiter; Chamber - Cleveland Chamber
Symphony, Group for Contemp. Music, League-ISCM, Da Capo, Continuum, New
Music Consort, Gregg Smith Singers, Relache (Phila), Contemp. Music
Forum (Wash, DC), Contemp. Chamber Players (Chicago), Goldman Memorial
Band, Wolff Trap Farm. Published: Presser, Schirmer, MMB. Nissim Prize
twice. Two NEA fellowships. Sundance Institute
Fellow.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Justine</first><middle>Fang</middle><last>Chen</last></name><biography>Born
Brooklyn 1975. Double major freshman at Juilliard: violin with Sally
Thomas, composition with David Diamond. Won composition awards from BMI,
ASCAP, Juilliard, Interlochen Arts Acad, Westminster Choir Col, Nat
&amp; NY Fed Music Clubs, Copland International Comp. Competition for
Children.  Performers include: Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble,
Interlochen Quartet, Juilliard Pre-College Orch, Min-Shen String Quartet
of Taiwan.
</biography><email>jfchen@minerva.cis.yale.edu</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Wendy</first><middle>Fang</middle><last>Chen</last></name><biography>Presidential
Scholar 1988, NBC Today and Phil Donahue Shows, July 1988; commissioned
Metropolitan Opera Guild (2). BMI Student Composers Award (2). Pianist,
international
performances.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Gia</first><middle></middle><last>Comolli</last></name><biography>Doctoral
Teaching Fellow, Temple Univ. contemplate completion 1993. Peabody: BM
Piano (Laires), 1987; BM Composition (Cotel), 1987. CCNY Graduate
Fellowship Composition (Del Tredici), MMA, 1989; Interlochen, Aspen.
Honors/awards: Charles Ives Prize; Pennsylvania Government School of the
Arts; Southeastern Composers League (1st); National Collegiate; Klemm;
Brunswick; Meet The
Composer.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Robin</first><middle></middle><last>Connell</last></name><biography>MM
in Theory/Composition University of N. Colorado. Composer (jazz and
classical). Studied composition with Dr. Evan Copley, Dr. Robert Ehle
and Dr. Robert Schectman. Studied jazz composition with Don Sebesky,
Manny Albam and Bob Brookmeyer. Composer, Music Director, pianist,
educator. NEA Artist-In-Residence at Garden City Community College,
Kansas. Teaches at Interlochen National Music Camp.  Fomerly graduate
teaching assistant, University of Northern
Colorado.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Constance</first><middle></middle><last>Cooper</last></name><biography>Composer/pianist/singer
specializes in performances of contemporary music. Canadian premiere
Charles Wuorinen&apos;s Piano Sonata (1969). World premiere Marga
Richter&apos;s Sieben Lieder. Fellowship: Indiana University,
&quot;Music of Our Time,&quot;. Opus One Records. Commission honoring
the American Music Center; Doctoral Fellow, Princeton
University.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Eleanor</first><middle></middle><last>Cory</last></name><biography>Teachers
M. Kupferman, C. Wuorinen, Chou Wen-Chung and Bulent Arel; DMA Columbia.
Teaching Yale, CUNY, Manhattan School of Music. Pres. ACA. NEA, NYSCA,
NYFA, Hilles grants. ACA recording award. 1st Prize, Tapestries,
Hollybush International Competition. 1st Prize Music in the Mountains
Orchestral Competition.  Recorded CRI, OPUS ONE,
Advance.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Joan</first><middle></middle><last>Crowell</last></name><biography>Born
6/6/21.  Published novelist, essayist, poet; unpublished librettist and
composer.  BA: Bennignton College; MA (English): NYU; taught English
Lit. at NYU.  At age 60 studied music theory and harmony at Eastern
Suffolk School of Music and composition with Larry Alan Smith of
Julliard.</biography><email></email><url></url><title/><state>New
York</state><city>Quogue</city><country></country><zip>11959</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Stefania</first><middle>M.</middle><last>De
Kenessey</last></name><biography>States that she writes music in an
unabashedly consonant, triadic, tonal idiom, and is active in a wide
variety of genres. Performances throughout the United
States.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Margaret</first><middle></middle><last>De
Wys</last></name><biography>Composes chamber and orchestral music.  Her
works have been performed by the St. Louis Symphony, Hudson Valley
Philharmonic, and Da Capo Chamber Players.  She has curated an audiotape
of womens music and written for dance and
film.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Susan</first><middle></middle><last>Fisher</last></name><biography>MM
Composition Juilliard. Persichetti,
Widdoes.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Tracy</first><middle></middle><last>Fitz</last></name><biography>Mannes
School of Music; BS in music and film SUNY-Empire State College. Studied
with Johnny Reinhard at the Institute of Microtonality Her lyrics are
humorous and music is predominantly tonal. BMI
composer.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Ruth</first><middle>Berman</middle><last>Harris</last></name><biography>Harp
(Salzedo Lawrence), composition (Herder), Juilliard, SUNY. Formerly
freelance orchestral harpist and soloist: CBS, NBC, ABC. Original harp
music composed for radio and TV dramas on ABC and CBS. Harp works -
tonal structures. Other works: strong advanced contemporary harmonies,
melodic
lines.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Jane</first><middle>Smith</middle><last>Hart</last></name><biography>BS
Juilliard; MA Teachers Coll, Columbia. Chair Music Rev Comm, New
Rochelle Pub Lib. Appealing melodic works, strong American base. Pn,
sop, ten, cl, choral, vn. Tapes-Fantasy on American Spirituals, Sonata
for Flute and Guitar avail. Acclaimed book childrens songs, SINGING
BEE!, special award PARENTS CHOICE. Nat. Lg. Pen Women. CAAA, NYC
Chapter.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Julie</first><middle></middle><last>Harting</last></name><biography>Ms.
Harting is currently enrolled in the DMA program at Columbia University.
She received her BM from the Manhattan School of Music.  Her teachers
have included Mamlok, Davidovsky, and Monod. Recent awards: Rapoport
Prize from Columbia U. and Prospect Park Arts Program grant for a
music/dance collaboration.
</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Katherine</first><middle></middle><last>Hoover</last></name><biography>Composer,
flutist. NEA Composers Fellowship. Published by Presser, Fischer.
Extensively recorded; performed world-wide. Performs, records
frequently. Eastman; taught at Juilliard and Manhattan
SM.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Mary</first><middle>B.B.</middle><last>Inwood</last></name><biography>Currently
Ph.D. program in composition, NYU; Queens College BA, magna cum laude,
MA composition; CUNY doctoral studies, teach theory and composition at
NYU.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Mary</first><middle>Ann</middle><last>Joyce-Walter</last></name><biography>BA,
BM, Washington University; MA, Ph.D. Washington University (music theory
and composition). Author, college
teacher.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Laura</first><middle></middle><last>Kaminsky</last></name><biography></biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Patricia</first><middle></middle><last>King</last></name><biography>Composer-in-Residence,
Amherst Music Festival. Faculty Chairperson, Dorothy Taubman School.
Consultant: National and International Piano Foundations. Publishers:
Theodore Presser, Neil A. Kjos Music Co. and Lee Roberts. Teacher, judge
and
clinician.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Bun-ching</first><middle></middle><last>Lam</last></name><biography>Born
in Macau. BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1976; Ph.D. in
composition from University of California at San Diego in 1981. Her
music reflects an oriental sensibility with western techniques and
aesthetics. Her works have been recognized by a Rome Prize, and awards
from the NEA, Meet The Composer, and The New York Foundation for the
Arts, and have been performed in Europe, Asia, and the United
States.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Vanessa</first><middle></middle><last>Lann</last></name><biography></biography><email>vlann33@hotmail.com</email><url>http://huizen.dds.nl/~lann</url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Jane</first><middle></middle><last>Leslie</last></name><biography>BM,
MM Juilliard, DMA Manhattan School of Music.  Music faculty
SUNY-Purchase, William Patterson College of N. J.  Member and Business
Director Long Island Composers Alliance.  1995 MTC grant.  Numerous
concert performances of her own music in NYC area.
</biography><email>Enaj1029@aol.com</email><url></url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Binnette</first><middle></middle><last>Lipper</last></name><biography>Hunter
College, Juilliard. Studied composition privately with Ulehla, Talma,
Herder, Kupferman. Former piano and Composition faculty, Hoff-Barthelson
Music School, presently Trustee of the school. Meet-the-Composer and
American Music Center grants, commissions. Judge, MTNA and Copeland
Composition Competitions.  Recordings: &quot;Evocations: American Music
from the Moscow Autumn Fesival&quot; (North/South
Recordings).</biography><email>binnette@aol.com</email><url></url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Ursula</first><middle></middle><last>Mamlok</last></name><biography>Publishers:
C.F. Peters, American Composers Edition, E.C. Schirmer. Recorded by:
Opus One, CRI, Grenadilla, Access, Leonarda. NEA grants. American
Academy Arts and Letters awards including Walter Hinrichsen award.
ACA/Opus One recording award. Koussevitzky Foundation commission. 1990
San Francisco Symphony
commission.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Julie</first><middle></middle><last>Mandel</last></name><biography>Julie
Mandel, a composer of both chamber music and musical theater, is
Treasurer of the Long Island Composers Alliance, and a member of the
American Composers Forum.  Majored in Music at UCLA.  Studied 12-tone
composition with Ernst Krenek and was in the BMI Musical Theater
Workshop.  Her new musical theater work featuring the Meridian String
Quartet will be produced in December of 1999 at Queens College.  Her
Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp; and her String Quartet #3 have been
published by Theodore
Presser.</biography><email></email><url></url><title/><state>New
York</state><city>Forest
Hills</city><country></country><zip>11375</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Ann</first><middle>E.</middle><last>McMillan
- (deceased)</last></name><biography>Bennington College, Berkshire Music
center. Honors include: Guggenheim, Rockefeller grants. Four recordings:
FOLKWAYS/SMITHSONIAN, OPUS ONE labels. Commissioned and premiered by
Quintet of the Americas, International Festival of New Music, Mexico;
Spoleto, USA; Guest editor, Contemporary Music Review; ACA, AMC,
BMI.</biography><email></email><url></url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Beata</first><middle></middle><last>Moon</last></name><biography>Composer,
performer, educator.  Juilliard School, BM-Piano (Adele Marcus).
Lincoln Center Institute: Teaching Artist.  Solo, chamber, orchestral
works.</biography><email>moonbeat@earthlink.net</email><url></url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Dorothy</first><middle>Rudd</middle><last>Moore</last></name><biography>Howard
Univ, Music Theory &amp; Composition, Magna Cum Laude. Teachers: Mark
Fax, Nadia Boulander, Chou Wen Chung. Co-founder Society of Black
Composers. Member ACA, BMI, New York Singing Teachers Assoc.  Opera
singer, member Lola Hayes Studio. Wrote music and libretto for
&quot;Frederick Douglass&quot;, premiered NYC, 1985 by Opera Ebony.
Former panelist National Endowment for the Arts and NY State Council on
the Arts.  Teaches privately: voice, sight-singing and ear
training.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Alla</first><middle></middle><last>Pavlova</last></name><biography>Alla
Pavlova is a composer, pianist and musicologist.  She received her
Masters Degree at The Gnessiny Academy of Music in Moscow in 1983.  She
has written a number of Compositions for Orchestra including two
symphonies as well as other instrumental and vocal works performed in
the United States of America, Canada and
Europe.</biography><email>alapalova@aol.com</email><url></url><title/><state>NY</state><city>New
York</city><country></country><zip>10025</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Elizabeth</first><middle>Hayden</middle><last>Pizer</last></name><biography>Composer,
keyboardist, synthesizer programmer, audio engineer, archivist, free
lance reviewer. Formal education: Boston Conservatory of Music.
Prize-winning, critically acclaimed compositions. Works performed and
broadcast internationally. Lyrical, sensitive music marked by strong
motifs and modern
harmonies.</biography><email>75317.1544@compuserve.com</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Marga</first><middle></middle><last>Richter</last></name><biography>Juilliard.
Performed world-wide. Atlanta, Milwaukee Symphonies, Minnesota, London
Philarmonic Orchestras, Dusseldorf Ensemble, Western Wind, Joffrey
Ballet, Jessye Norman, Menahem Pressler, Walter Trampler.  Dramatic,
personal, emotionally charged chromaticism (not 12-tone) combined with
strong tonal centers, modal orientation, strong rhythmic drive.  As of
October, 1995 has 19 works recorded on
CD/LP.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Judith</first><middle></middle><last>Sainte
Croix</last></name><biography>Pianist, vocalist, synthisist. Gaudeamus
winner, Pulitzer Prize nomination. Lyrical, dynamic style using
intricate rhythms and imaginative, bright, harmonic palette; graceful,
subtle flow, impressionistic, evocative. Communicates readily, yet
demands further hearings. Teaching artist: Lincoln Center, Guggenheim,
Meet The composer, New York Sate Council on the
Arts.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Ruth</first><middle></middle><last>Schonthal</last></name><biography>Born
Hamburg, Germany. Comp. Conservatory Stern, Berlin. Liljefors,
Stockholm, M.M. Ponce, Mexico, Paul Hindemith, Yale. Compositions for
solo instruments, voice, chamber music, orchestra, ballets and opera.
Published: Oxford, Hildegard, Sisra, C. Fischer, E. Schirmer, Fine Arts.
LPs &amp; CDs. Performed worldwide. Distributor: Fine Arts Music Co.,
Box 311, Wykagyl, NY
10804.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Linda</first><middle></middle><last>Seltzer</last></name><biography>BA
UPenn, BSEE UColorado, MS Cal Tech, non-degree UC Berkeley, MFA
Princeton, PhD student, Princeton.  Composer and electrical engineer.
Performance studies: piano, vocal (Hidusthani and Western). Digital
signal processing approach to computer
music.</biography><email>lseltzer@phoenix.princeton.edu</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Ann</first><middle></middle><last>Silsbee</last></name><biography>Composer,
pianist. Born Cambridge, Mass. BA Radcliffe, MM Syracuse, DMA Cornell
(Karel Husa). NEA, MacDowell, Yaddo, Ives, NYSCA, MB Rockefeller.
Performed:  Orient, Europe, NS America, Canada. Member BMI.
</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Judi</first><middle></middle><last>Silvano</last></name><biography>Composer,
arranger and voice. Classical, jazz idioms. Temple U. Performed
classical, world premiere, choral works with Ormandy, Phildelphia Orch.
Composition with Bob Brookmeyer, Gunther Schuller. Compositions recorded
by Joe Lovano. Performances: Muhlenberg, Merkin, Maison de Culture
(Amiens, France), Cami, Knitting Factory, Greenwich House Music School.
Song Form to more contemporary ensembles: voices, winds, harp, strings
and percussion. Comm: Opus One Chamber
Ensemble.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Sheila</first><middle></middle><last>Silver</last></name><biography>BA
Berkeley; PhD Brandeis. Berger, Shapero, Ligeti, Karkoschka. Prix de
Rome, Prix de Paris, ISCM National Competition Award (2). Associate
Professor Music SUNY-Stony Brook. American Institute of Arts and Letters
Composers Award. Performed U. S. and
Europe.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Jeanne</first><middle></middle><last>Singer</last></name><biography>Pianist.
BA Barnard College, Phi Beta Kappa, Honorary Ph.D. in Music. Performed
world-wide. Annual ASCAP awards. Numerous grants, awards, commissions.
Style is tonal, melodic, neo-romantic. Scores of all works available
from composer irrespective of publisher
listed.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Mira</first><middle>J.</middle><last>Spektor</last></name><biography>
</biography><email></email><url></url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Joyce</first><middle>Hope</middle><last>Suskind</last></name><biography>Joyce
Hope Suskind has become established as a composer, performer and teacher
in New York, her native city.  Her interest in Yeats developed after
setting &quot;The Lake Isle of Innisfree.&quot;  Enthralled by the
seeminly endless supply of wondrous poems, she is now working on her
twentieth Yeats song.  But she has not abandoned other poets.  A song to
a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins has recently been released on a
CD.</biography><email>jsuskind@att.net</email><url></url><title/><state>NY</state><city>New
York</city><country></country><zip>10025</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Hillary</first><middle></middle><last>Tann</last></name><biography>Welsh
composer. Chair, Performing Arts Dept., Union College, Schenectady, NY
12308. MFA, PhD Princeton University. House composer Oxford University
Press. Editorial Board PNM. Executive Committee ILWC. ASCAP.
</biography><email>tannh@union.edu</email><url>http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/PARTDEPT/TANNH</url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Awilda</first><middle></middle><last>Villarini</last></name><biography>A
native of Puerto Rico who has made New York City her home for the past
fifteen years, composer-pianist Awilda Villarini has gained increasing
international attention for her unique synthesis of Hispanic and
European musical traditions    Educated at the Juilliard School of Music
and New York University (where she received a Ph.D. in piano
performance) in New York, the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and the
Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna, Dr. Villarini has created work for
piano, chamber music, theatre and orchestra.  While residing in New York
City she has taught at N.Y.U. and C.U.N.Y.    International honors
include awards from Artists International and commissions from the
National Endowment for the Arts and The Louis Vogelstein Foundation.
Her work has been performed at the American Composers&apos; Orchestra
Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York, at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, at
the Brahms Saal in Vienna, and other international musical venues.
Her musical style is eclectic and her works are strikingly innovative.
Today, considered one of the most gifted younger composers working on
the international scene, Ms. Villarini continues to extend her musical
vocabulary, exploring the possibilities of electronic sound and
multimedia.  </biography><email></email><url></url><title/><state>New
York</state><city>New
York</city><country></country><zip>10025</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Joelle</first><middle></middle><last>Wallach</last></name><biography></biography><email>joellewallach@hotmail.com</email><url>http://www.joellewallach.com/</url><title/><state>NY</state><city>NY</city><country>USA</country><zip>10027</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Eva</first><middle></middle><last>Wiener</last></name><biography>Composer,
pianist. MA composition Brooklyn College. Solo and chamber
works.</biography><email>doverb@tiac.net</email><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Susan</first><middle>G.</middle><last>Winthrop</last></name><biography>Manhattan
School of Music (Composition). Bronx Medal  1989 NY International Film
and TV Festival for Original Music  Score to animated video &quot;Joey
Runs Away&quot; co-written and produced at her studio.   Audio engineer.
Has recorded works by Davidovsky, Babbitt, Mamlok, Hoover,  Diamond and
Ulehla for Guild of Composers concert series. Music Director and  tenor
saxophonist for the Hot Lavender Swing Orchestra in
NYC.</biography><email/><url/><title/><state/><city/><country/><zip/><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Rain</first><middle></middle><last>Worthington</last></name><biography>Primarily
self-taught, Rain Worthington has played her solo piano music in concert
and was director, keyboardist, and composer for two new music ensembles,
performing extensively in NYC.    Since 1994 Ms. Worthington has
composed for chamber ensembles and orchestra.  Her music has been
premiered by the Sirius String Quartet and was selected for the American
Composers Forum-NY 1998 Annual Concert.    Ms. Worthington describes her
music as &quot;intensely personal&quot;.  Having travelled and lived in
the Near East, these tonalities, together with contemporary urban
sounds, also influence her compositions.    Ms. Worthington has received
grants from Meet The Composer and American Composer Forum.  She has a BA
from SUNY and works as an Orff-Schulwerk music teacher in NYC public
schools.</biography><email>solorain@aol.com</email><url></url><title/><state>NY</state><city>NY</city><country>USA</country><zip>10011</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Chen</first><middle></middle><last>Yi</last></name><biography>Born
in China; BA &amp; MA, Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing; DMA,
Columbia University in NYC.  Teachers: Davidovsky, Chou, Wu and Goehr.
Composer-in-Residence, Women&apos;s Philharmonic, Chaticleer (93-96).
Composition Faculty, Peabody Conservatory (96-).  Fellowships:
Guggengeim, NEA, and the AAAL.  Winner of Lili Boulanger Award, 1996
Sorel Medal for Excellence in Music, the 1997 CalArts Alpert Award, adn
the top prize from the Chinese National Composition Competition.  Major
commission awards from the Koussevitzky, Fromm Music Foundations,
Chamber Music America, MTC/Reader&apos;s Digest Program, Cary Trust.
Published by Theodore Presser Co., CD&apos;s available on Nimbus, Cala,
New Albion, Teldec, CRI and
CRC.</biography><email>chenyi@aol.com</email><url></url><title/><state>New
York</state><city>Brooklyn</city><country></country><zip>11232</zip><expires/></Composer><Composer><name><first>Judith</first><middle>Lang</middle><last>Zaimont</last></name><biography>Queens
College, Columbia University. Performances world-wide. Professor  of
Composition, University of Minnesota School of Music (1992-present),
Music Department Chair, Adelphi University (1989-1992); Fellowships:
Guggenheim, Woodrow Wilson, Maryland Arts Council, NEA, Presser.
Commissions:  Connecticut Opera, Greenville Symphony, Baltimore Dance,
Exxon, Gregg  Smith, Florilegium, Huntingdon, Vox Nova, Arleen Auger,
American Guild  of Organists. Profiled: American Groves, others.
Recordings on Koch, Arabesque, Leonarda, 4-Tay, Albany.</biography><email>jzaimont@worldnet.att.net</email><url>http://www.joblink.org/jzaimont/</url><title/><state></state><city></city><country></country><zip></zip><expires/></Composer></Composers>
