Professor of Music

Education: Juilliard School of Music; M.A., University of Pennsylvania

Courses Offered at Wellesley: 122 (Pitch Structure in Tonal Music), 235/335 (Mahler: From The Crying Song to the Song of the Earth), 244 (Harmony), 213/313 (Twentieth-Century Analysis and Composition), 315 (Advanced Harmony), 314 Tonal Composition

Biographical Information: Principal teachers Vincent Persichetti and George Crumb. At Juilliard, received the Marion S. Freschl Award for Vocal Composition for her setting of Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII. Fulbright study in Florence, Italy with Luigi Dallapiccola. Before Wellesley, Music theory and composition taught on the faculties of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University. Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the ISCM for her "Three Songs from Quasimodo," 1982. Residencies at the MacDowell Colony since 1963, and named the Faye Barnaby Kent Fellow (awarded by the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation) during a recent residency. Awards for composition and performance activities from the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, Meet the Composer, and the Mellon Foundation. Commissions from the University of Texas Drama Department for the incidental music to Moli²re's "The Imaginary Invalid," the Concord Chorus for "Emerson Motets," the Rivers Music School (Weston, MA) 1996 Contemporary Music Seminar for the "Young for East, West of the Sun." In 2001, awarded a Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Recent compositions include the song cycle "Vox feminae" (texts from the "Carmina burana"), premiered at the Goethe-Institut Boston, March 2003, and "Il sabato del villaggio" (G. Leopardi), premiered at Brandeis University, June 2003 by the Lydian Quartet with Marion Dry, contralto. Her music is published by C.F. Peters Corporation and the Association for the Promotion of New Music (APNM at www.subitomusic.com).

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