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  <Composer>
      <first>Beth</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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: "New Grove Directory of American Music", "The Pandora Guide to Women Composers", St. James Press' "Contemporary Composers."</biography>
<email>beand@interport.net</email>
<url>http://www.users.interport.net/~beand/</url>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Dorothea</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Elizabeth</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Lydia</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Elizabeth</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Barbara</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Marilyn</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></url>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Tamara</first>
      <middle>Maria</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Victoria</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Linda</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Dawn</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Karen</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Nancy</first>
      <middle>Laird</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Justine</first>
      <middle>Fang</middle>
    <name>
      <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></url>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Wendy</first>
      <middle>Fang</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Gia</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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<country></country>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Robin</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Constance</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <last>Cooper</last>
    </name>
<biography>Composer/pianist/singer specializes in performances of contemporary music. Canadian premiere Charles Wuorinen's Piano Sonata (1969). World premiere Marga Richter's Sieben Lieder. Fellowship: Indiana University, "Music of Our Time,". Opus One Records. Commission honoring the American Music Center; Doctoral Fellow, Princeton University.</biography>
<email></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Eleanor</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Joan</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state>New York</state>
<city>Quogue</city>
<country></country>
<zip>11959</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Stefania</first>
      <middle>M.</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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<country></country>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Margaret</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Susan</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <last>Fisher</last>
    </name>
<biography>MM Composition Juilliard. Persichetti, Widdoes.</biography>
<email></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Tracy</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Ruth</first>
      <middle>Berman</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Jane</first>
      <middle>Smith</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Julie</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Katherine</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Mary</first>
      <middle>B.B.</middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Mary</first>
      <middle>Ann</middle>
    <name>
      <last>Joyce-Walter</last>
    </name>
<biography>BA, BM, Washington University; MA, Ph.D. Washington University (music theory and composition). Author, college teacher.</biography>
<email></email>
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<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Laura</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <last>Kaminsky</last>
    </name>
<biography></biography>
<email></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Patricia</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Bun-ching</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Vanessa</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <last>Lann</last>
    </name>
<biography></biography>
<email>vlann33@hotmail.com</email>
<url>http://huizen.dds.nl/~lann</url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Jane</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Binnette</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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: "Evocations: American Music from the Moscow Autumn Fesival" (North/South Recordings).</biography>
<email>binnette@aol.com</email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Ursula</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Julie</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state>New York</state>
<city>Forest Hills</city>
<country></country>
<zip>11375</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Ann</first>
      <middle>E.</middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Beata</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Dorothy</first>
      <middle>Rudd</middle>
    <name>
      <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 "Frederick Douglass", 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></email>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Alla</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state>NY</state>
<city>New York</city>
<country></country>
<zip>10025</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Elizabeth</first>
      <middle>Hayden</middle>
    <name>
      <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></url>
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<state></state>
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<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Marga</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
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<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Judith</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Ruth</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Linda</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Ann</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Judi</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Sheila</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Jeanne</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Mira</first>
      <middle>J.</middle>
    <name>
      <last>Spektor</last>
    </name>
<biography>
</biography>
<email></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Joyce</first>
      <middle>Hope</middle>
    <name>
      <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 "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."  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></title>
<state>NY</state>
<city>New York</city>
<country></country>
<zip>10025</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Hillary</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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>
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<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Awilda</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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' 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></title>
<state>New York</state>
<city>New York</city>
<country></country>
<zip>10025</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Joelle</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <last>Wallach</last>
    </name>
<biography></biography>
<email>joellewallach@hotmail.com</email>
<url>http://www.joellewallach.com/</url>
<title></title>
<state>NY</state>
<city>NY</city>
<country>USA</country>
<zip>10027</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Eva</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <last>Wiener</last>
    </name>
<biography>Composer, pianist. MA composition Brooklyn College. Solo and chamber works.</biography>
<email>doverb@tiac.net</email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Susan</first>
      <middle>G.</middle>
    <name>
      <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 "Joey Runs Away" 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></email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Rain</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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 "intensely personal".  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></title>
<state>NY</state>
<city>NY</city>
<country>USA</country>
<zip>10011</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Chen</first>
      <middle></middle>
    <name>
      <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'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's Digest Program, Cary Trust.  Published by Theodore Presser Co., CD's available on Nimbus, Cala, New Albion, Teldec, CRI and CRC.</biography>
<email>chenyi@aol.com</email>
<url></url>
<title></title>
<state>New York</state>
<city>Brooklyn</city>
<country></country>
<zip>11232</zip>
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  </Composer>

  <Composer>
      <first>Judith</first>
      <middle>Lang</middle>
    <name>
      <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></title>
<state></state>
<city></city>
<country></country>
<zip></zip>
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  </Composer>

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