Gastkünstler im Internationalen Künstlerhaus

 

The first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin Prize, Laura Schwendinger, Prof. of Composition. Her music, performed and commissioned by leading artists of our day, including Dawn Upshaw (Tour 1997-2013; Voices of Our Time, TDK/Naxos DVD), the Arditti and JACK quartets, Jennifer Koh, ICE, Janine Jansen, Eighth Blackbird, New Juilliard Ensemble, Trinity Choir, American Composers Orchestra and Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra; At venues including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Trio, Alice Tully Hall-Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Berlin Philharmic, Carnegie Hall, Times Center, Miller Theater, Symphony Space, BargeMusic, MOMA, Theatre Chatalet, off-Broadway Classic Stage Co for Sounding Beckett, Tanglewood, Aspen and Ojai Music Festivals. Her honors include those from Guggenheim, Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations, Radcliffe Institute-Harvard University, Copland House, Harvard Musical Association, Chamber Music America, MacDowell and Yaddo , Rockefeller’s Bellagio Center, American Academy of Arts and Letters (Leiberson for “mid-career composer of exceptional gifts”) and First Prize ALEA III Competition. JV Rhein wrote (Eighth Blackbird), of High Wire Act (Chicago Tribune) “it evinced an acute sonic imagination and sure command of craft.” Of her Song for Andrew, A Tommasini wrote (NYT) “The piece is darkly attractive, artful and moving…” and of her Fable, R. Buell (Boston Globe) wrote “This was shrewd composing, the genuine article. Onto the ''season's best'' list it goes”. Acclaimed CDs featuring her work were released this year on Centaur and Albany labels including High Wire Acts and 3 Works, featuring Matt Haimovitz.