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        type="CHAR">Anderson</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Beth</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://www.users.interport.net/~beand/</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">beand@interport.net</ComposerEmail> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet
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            type="BLOB">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;</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Austin</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Dorothea</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Austin</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Elizabeth</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://www.amc.net/amc/member/Elizabeth-Austin/home.html</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">austin@uconnvm.uconn.edu</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Ayers</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Lydia</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">layers@cs.ust.hk</ComposerEmail> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Bell</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Elizabeth</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">belfri@msn.com</ComposerEmail> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Benary</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Barbara</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Bliss</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Marilyn</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">73304.1643@compuserve.com</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Bliss</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Tamara</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">Maria</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Bond</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Victoria</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://www.cris.com/%7EBond006/</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">Bond006@concentric.net</ComposerEmail> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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. </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Bouchard</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Linda</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Buckholz</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Dawn</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Campbell</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Karen</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">BME UIllinois, Summa Cum Laude; composer,
            performer, choreographer, writer. Editor American Women
            Composers magazine. Performed with Santa Fe Opera, Relache,
            Philly Pops, Philharmonia Virtuosi.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Chance</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Nancy</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">Laird</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Chen</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Justine</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR">Fang</ComposerMiddleName> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">jfchen@minerva.cis.yale.edu</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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. </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Chen</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Wendy</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR">Fang</ComposerMiddleName> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">Presidential Scholar 1988, NBC Today and Phil
            Donahue Shows, July 1988; commissioned Metropolitan Opera
            Guild (2). BMI Student Composers Award (2). Pianist,
            international performances.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Comolli</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Gia</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Connell</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Robin</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Cooper</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Constance</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Cory</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Eleanor</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Crowell</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Joan</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerEmail type="CHAR"/> <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">P.O.
            Box 904</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR">New York</ComposerState>
            <ComposerCity type="CHAR">Quogue</ComposerCity>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip
        type="CHAR">11959</ComposerZip> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
            type="CHAR">De Kenessey</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Stefania</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">M.</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">De Wys</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Margaret</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Fisher</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Susan</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">MM Composition Juilliard.
            Persichetti, Widdoes.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Fitz</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Tracy</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Harris</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Ruth</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR">Berman</ComposerMiddleName> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Hart</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Jane</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">Smith</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Harting</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Julie</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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. </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Hoover</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Katherine</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">Composer, flutist. NEA Composers Fellowship.
            Published by Presser, Fischer. Extensively recorded;
            performed world-wide. Performs, records frequently. Eastman;
            taught at Juilliard and Manhattan SM.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Inwood</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Mary</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">B.B.</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">Currently Ph.D. program in
            composition, NYU; Queens College BA, magna cum laude, MA
            composition; CUNY doctoral studies, teach theory and
            composition at NYU.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Joyce-Walter</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Mary</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR">Ann</ComposerMiddleName> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">BA, BM, Washington University; MA, Ph.D.
            Washington University (music theory and composition).
            Author, college teacher.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Kaminsky</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Laura</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB"/>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">King</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Patricia</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Lam</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Bun-ching</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Lann</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Vanessa</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://huizen.dds.nl/~lann</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">vlann33@hotmail.com</ComposerEmail> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/> <ComposerState
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCountry
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
        type="BLOB"/>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Leslie</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Jane</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">Enaj1029@aol.com</ComposerEmail> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/> <ComposerState
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCountry
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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. </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Lipper</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Binnette</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerEmail type="CHAR">binnette@aol.com</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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).</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Mamlok</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Ursula</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Mandel</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Julie</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR">718-268-3786</ComposerVoice> <ComposerFax
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">6923 Loubet
        St</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/> <ComposerState
            type="CHAR">New York</ComposerState> <ComposerCity
            type="CHAR">Forest Hills</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR">11375</ComposerZip>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
            type="CHAR">McMillan - (deceased)</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Ann</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">E.</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Moon</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Beata</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">moonbeat@earthlink.net</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">Composer, performer, educator.
            Juilliard School, BM-Piano (Adele Marcus).  Lincoln Center
            Institute: Teaching Artist.  Solo, chamber, orchestral
        works.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Moore</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Dorothy</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR">Rudd</ComposerMiddleName> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Pavlova</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Alla</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerEmail type="CHAR">alapalova@aol.com</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR">212 580-0878</ComposerVoice>
            <ComposerFax type="CHAR">212 580-0878</ComposerFax>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">304 W. 92nd
        Street</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite
        type="CHAR">2N</ComposerSuite> <ComposerState
        type="CHAR">NY</ComposerState> <ComposerCity type="CHAR">New
        York</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip
        type="CHAR">10025</ComposerZip> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Pizer</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Elizabeth</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">Hayden</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">75317.1544@compuserve.com</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Richter</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Marga</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Sainte
        Croix</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Judith</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Schonthal</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Ruth</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Seltzer</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Linda</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">lseltzer@phoenix.princeton.edu</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Silsbee</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Ann</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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. </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Silvano</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Judi</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Silver</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Sheila</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Singer</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Jeanne</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Spektor</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Mira</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">J.</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB"> </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row>
            <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Suskind</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Joyce</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">Hope</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">jsuskind@att.net</ComposerEmail> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR">212-662-9009</ComposerVoice> <ComposerFax
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">610 W. 119th
        St</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite
        type="CHAR">12A</ComposerSuite> <ComposerState
        type="CHAR">NY</ComposerState> <ComposerCity type="CHAR">New
        York</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip
        type="CHAR">10025</ComposerZip> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Tann</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Hillary</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/PARTDEPT/TANNH</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail type="CHAR">tannh@union.edu</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.
        </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Villarini</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Awilda</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR">212-666-0738</ComposerVoice> <ComposerFax
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">808 West End
        Ave.</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite
        type="CHAR">1211</ComposerSuite> <ComposerState type="CHAR">New
        York</ComposerState> <ComposerCity type="CHAR">New
        York</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip
        type="CHAR">10025</ComposerZip> <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.
        </ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Wallach</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Joelle</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://www.joellewallach.com/</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">joellewallach@hotmail.com</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR">(212) 662-6134</ComposerVoice>
            <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">552
            Riverside Drive</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite
        type="CHAR">#5E</ComposerSuite> <ComposerState
        type="CHAR">NY</ComposerState> <ComposerCity
        type="CHAR">NY</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry
        type="CHAR">USA</ComposerCountry> <ComposerZip
        type="CHAR">10027</ComposerZip> <ComposerBio type="BLOB"/>
    </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Wiener</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Eva</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">doverb@tiac.net</ComposerEmail> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">Composer, pianist. MA composition Brooklyn
            College. Solo and chamber works.</ComposerBio>   </Row>
        <Row> <ComposerLastName type="CHAR">Winthrop</ComposerLastName>
            <ComposerFirstName type="CHAR">Susan</ComposerFirstName>
            <ComposerMiddleName type="CHAR">G.</ComposerMiddleName>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Worthington</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Rain</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">solorain@aol.com</ComposerEmail> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR">212-924-4275</ComposerVoice> <ComposerFax
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">225 West 12th
        Street</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite
        type="CHAR">6-I</ComposerSuite> <ComposerState
        type="CHAR">NY</ComposerState> <ComposerCity
        type="CHAR">NY</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry
        type="CHAR">USA</ComposerCountry> <ComposerZip
        type="CHAR">10011</ComposerZip> <ComposerBio
            type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Yi</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Chen</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerURL type="CHAR"/> <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">chenyi@aol.com</ComposerEmail> <ComposerVoice
        type="CHAR">718-435-0657</ComposerVoice> <ComposerFax
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerStreet type="CHAR">728 41st
        Street</ComposerStreet> <ComposerSuite
        type="CHAR">4E</ComposerSuite> <ComposerState type="CHAR">New
        York</ComposerState> <ComposerCity
        type="CHAR">Brooklyn</ComposerCity> <ComposerCountry
        type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR">11232</ComposerZip>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>    <Row> <ComposerLastName
        type="CHAR">Zaimont</ComposerLastName> <ComposerFirstName
        type="CHAR">Judith</ComposerFirstName> <ComposerMiddleName
        type="CHAR">Lang</ComposerMiddleName> <ComposerURL
        type="CHAR">http://www.joblink.org/jzaimont/</ComposerURL>
            <ComposerEmail
        type="CHAR">jzaimont@worldnet.att.net</ComposerEmail>
            <ComposerVoice type="CHAR"/> <ComposerFax type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerStreet type="CHAR"/> <ComposerSuite type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerState type="CHAR"/> <ComposerCity type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerCountry type="CHAR"/> <ComposerZip type="CHAR"/>
            <ComposerBio type="BLOB">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.</ComposerBio>   </Row>  </ResultSet>
