www.jocelynhagen.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\nAmanda Jacobs | b. 1962
\n<\/strong>Amanda Jacobs studied piano performance at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and pursued graduate studies in piano pedagogy, voice, jazz theory, and organ. For years she taught piano and performed as a chamber musician and for church services. Relocating to Rochester in 1996, she composed DANIEL: The Musical, a project that revealed her flair for orchestral composition. She orchestrated the Ohio Light Opera\u2019s revival of Sigmund Romberg\u2019s Maytime and its 2006 premiere of Jane Austen\u2019s Pride & Prejudice: A Musical Play. Jacobs also scores for film and animation and teaches vocal music.<\/p>\nEunyoung Kim
\n<\/strong>From Korea, Eunyong Kim received her doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in 2010. She studied organ with David Higgs and continuo playing, harpsichord and improvisation with William Porter at the Eastman. Dr. Kim is currently in Seoul, a lecturer of Organ Performance and Literature at Yonsei University, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, Kyung Hee University and Incheon Arts High School.<\/p>\nShe received her Bachelor\u2019s degree (1996) and Master of Music (1998) from Yonsei University, where she studied church music and organ with Kyunghee Jung and Tongsoon Kwak. Kim then pursued further studies with Harald Feller in Germany and earned the Meisterklassendiplom (2000) at the Musikhochschule in M\u00fcnchen. Eunyoung was a semifinalist in the 1996 International Organ Competition of Musashino-Tokyo and in the 1999 Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD, M\u00fcnchen. She formerly served as the organist at St. Paul\u2019s Church in Englewood(New Jersey), Our Lady of Lourdes in Brighton(Rochester), and the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford. Currently, she is the organist at Onnuri Church in Seoul.<\/p>\n
Larysa Kuzmenko | b. 1956
\n<\/strong>Larysa Kuzmenko is a Toronto-based composer, pianist and Juno nominee. Her music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by many outstanding musicians all over the world. She has appeared as a pianist in several countries, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, St. Lawrence Centre, England, USA, Roy Thomson Hall, among others. She is currently on staff at the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of music, where she teacher piano, harmony, and composition.<\/p>\nLori Laitman | b. 1995
\n<\/strong>Since 1991, American composer Lori Laitman has been writing primarily for voice, however, her works include music for film, theatre, and chamber music as well. Regarding her pieces, Opera News says, \u201cIt\u2019s a treat to hear contemporary art songs that showcase the voice as flatteringly as these, and which retain individuality and surprise without sacrificing accessibility.\u201d Ms. Laitman\u2019s pieces have been heard in venues such as Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall (New York), and The Kennedy Center (D.C.). She holds a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music.<\/p>\nLibby Larsen | b. 1950
\n<\/strong>Libby Larsen has been praised as \u201cthe only English-speaking composer since Benjamin Britten who matches great verse with fine music so intelligently and expressively\u201d (USA Today). She has written over two hundred pieces of music in nearly every major genre, from chamber music and song cycles, to large-scale orchestral and choral pieces. Well-known and highly regarded, Ms. Larsen is a composer whose works have become standard in the classical music repertory.<\/p>\nJane Leslie | b. 1954
\n<\/strong>A Native New Yorker, Jane Leslie holds a Bachelor and Masters degrees from the Juilliard school and a Doctoral degree from the Manhattan school of music. She has two albums of original piano solos, Southampton Sunset and Dreamsongs which have been featured on the internet and broadcasted in the U.S and abroad. Her compositions include numerous piano solos, music for voice, strings, woodwinds, percussion, and various ensembles.<\/p>\nMei Fang Lin |
\n<\/strong>Received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and her master’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is supported by the Frank Huntington Beebe Foundation in Boston and a George Ladd Paris Prize from UC Berkeley, she also spent three years in France studying composition and participated in the one-year computer music course “Cursus de Composition” at IRCAM. Awards for her music include those from the Seoul International Competition for Composers, Bourges Competition in France, Look & Listen Festival Prize in US (1st Prize – 2002), Pierre Schaeffer Competition in Italy (3rd Prize – 2002), and many others. Lin’s music has received performances by different groups nationally and internationally.<\/p>\nCaroline Lizotte | b. 1969
\n<\/strong>Harpist and composer Caroline Lizotte holds the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s second harp position and has been first substitute to the principal harp since 2003. She plays with many ensembles and orchestras in Eastern Canada and records with several classical and popular artists. Lizotte is a Canadian Music Centre Associate Composer. Her compositions and transcriptions for harp are played all over the world, as well as many international harp competitions. Among her works, Raga for two harps and Suite Glactique for solo harp are recorded by harpists Jennifer Swarts, Lori Gemmell on ATMA Classique. La Madone, lullaby for solo harp is recorded by Val\u00e9rie Milot on ANALEKTA label. Born in Qu\u00e9bec City, Mrs. Lizotte graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Qu\u00e9bec and studied at the Eastman School of Music. She is now professor of harp at the Conservatoire de Musique de Trois-Rivi\u00e8res and on the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Music Faculty www.clayne.com<\/p>\nAlma Schindler Mahler | 1879-1964
\n<\/strong>Alma Schindler Mahler studied counterpoint and composition with Zemlinsky and had written about a hundred songs by the time she was 22, when she married composer Gustav Mahler, director of the Vienna Opera. He made her promise to quit composing, something he deeply regretted in 1910 when he took a second look at her music following a marital crisis. After Mahler’s death in 1911 and an affair with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, Alma married architect Walter Gropius. After their divorce, she married Franz Werfel in 1929. During the Third Reich they fled Vienna leaving everything behind, including her manuscripts, which were destroyed when the house was bombed. They eventually settled in California to be near their friends, Bruno Walter, Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg.<\/p>\nKye Ryung Park | b. 1974
\n<\/strong>As a resident of both Asia and the United States, composer Kye Ryung (Karen) Park, has successfully integrated a number of multi-cultural elements into her own artistic identity. She is an accomplished pianist as well as an active Kayagum player. Her compositions have been performed at numerous music festivals and conferences including the International Festival of Women Composers, Nevada Encounters of New Music, Pan Music Festival, June in Buffalo and College Music Society’s Regional, National, and International Conferences as well as Grumo festival and Corso internazionale d’interpretazione in Italy.\u202f Recently her piano suite Reminiscences (2008) was broadcast on KGCS radio in Missouri.\u202f Future premieres also include performances in international venues such as Egypt, Taiwan, and Korea.\u202f She is currently on the faculty at Edison State College in Fort Myers, Florida.<\/p>\nLuise Reichardt | b. 1779-1826
\n<\/strong>Luise\u2019s father was composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt. She moved to Hamburg in 1809, teaching singing and directing a women\u2019s chorus which by 1819 evolved into the Hamburg Singverein<\/em>. Her life knew tragedy: Her fianc\u00e9 died shortly before they were due to be married; somewhat later, she lost her voice. Known for her translations and arrangements of Handel\u2019s oratorios, she composed over 90 song and choruses of her own.<\/p>\nClara Schumann | b. 1819-1896
\n<\/strong>Hailed as Europe\u2019s \u201cQueen of Piano,\u201d Clara Schumann began composing at the age of nine. Her sixty-six works include songs, partsongs, pieces for piano and orchestra, pieces for solo piano, and cadenzas for piano concertos. Greatly admired by her contemporaries, Ms. Schumann was awarded the title of \u201cRoyal and Imperial Chamber Virtuosa, With Great Distinction\u201d in Vienna, by the Emperor. Ms. Schumann\u2019s compositional style is characterized by virtuosity, poeticism, bold harmonies, rhythms, and modulations.<\/p>\nLucy Simon | b. 1943
\n<\/strong>Lucy Simon is the composer of the new musical Zhivago<\/em> which had its premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in 1991 as the composer of The Secret Garden<\/em>, for which she received Tony and Drama Desk nominations, the DramaLogue Award and a Grammy nomination for the recording of the score. She received two Grammy Awards for her In Harmony<\/em> albums, which she co-wrote and produced. Simon wrote songs for the film A Simple Wish<\/em> and contributed songs for the long-running review A… My Name is Alice<\/em>. She began her professional career at the age of 16 with her sister Carly as part of The Simon Sisters.<\/p>\nSuzanne Sorkin | b. 1977
\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Music, is active as a composer and educator.\u202f She has received awards and commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Chamber Music Now, Third Millennium Ensemble, counter) inducation, ASCAP, and others.\u202f Her work has been programmed on Piano Spheres in Los Angeles, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Denison University New Music Festival, Chamber Music Quad Cities, Florida State University Festival of New Music, and Vassar Modfest.\u202f She has written for ensembles including the Mannes Trio, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Third Angle, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.\u202f She has been a composition fellow at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Ernest Bloch Composers Symposium, the Advanced Masterclasses in Composition at the Aspen Music Festival, and the Oregon Bach Composers Symposium.\u202f Residencies include Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Artists\u2019 Enclave at I-Park, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. \u202fShe received her Ph.D. in composition from the University of Chicago through the support of a four-year Century Fellowship in the Humanities. At Saint Joseph’s University she teaches courses in music composition and music theory, serves as Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Film, and co-directs the Music Industry minor.<\/p>\n Dana Suesse | 1909-1987
\n<\/strong>Was an American composer known for her popular songs. In the United States she studied piano with Alexander Siloti, Franz Liszt\u2019s last surviving pupil. She studied in France with Naadia Boulanger. She composed for productions such as, Sweet and Low (1930), You Never Know (1938), Crazy With the Heat (1941), The Seven Year Itch (1952), and others.<\/p>\nHilary Tann | b. 1947
\n<\/strong>Welsh-born composer Hilary Tann lives in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York where she is the John Howard Payne Professor of Music and Union College. She holds degrees in composition from the University of Wales and from Princeton University. She was a guest composer in residence in the Women in Music Festival in 2011. Praised for her lyricism and formal balance, her music is influenced by her love of Wales and strong identification with the natural world. Her compositions have been performed and recorded by the European Women\u2019s Orchestra, Meininger Trio, BBCNOW, KBS Philharmonic in Seoul (Korea), etc.<\/p>\nJeanine Tesori | b. 1961
\n<\/strong>Jeanine Tesori (Music, Shrek<\/em>) has written three Tony-nominated scores for Broadway: Twelfth Night<\/em> (Lincoln Center); Thoroughly Modern Millie<\/em> (lyrics, Dick Scanlan); and Caroline, or Change<\/em> (lyrics, Tony Kushner; director, George C. Wolfe). The National Theatre production of Caroline, or Change<\/em> in London received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical. Her first musical, Violet<\/em>, written with Brian Crawley, received the NY Drama Critics Circle Award. She has received Drama Desk and Obie Awards, and was cited by ASCAP as the first woman composer to have “two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway.” She composed the music for the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Mother Courage<\/em>, directed by George C. Wolfe and translated by Tony Kushner. Film scores include Nights in Rodanthe<\/em>, Winds of Change<\/em>, Show Business<\/em> and Wrestling With Angels<\/em>. She composed songs for the movie Shrek the Third<\/em> and for the Disney DVD releases Mulan II<\/em>, Lilo and Stitch II<\/em> and The Little Mermaid III<\/em>. Ms. Tesori is a member of the Dramatists Guild. She is a graduate of Barnard College and lives in Manhattan with her husband, Michael Rafter, and daughter, Siena.<\/p>\nTellu Turkka | b. 1969
\n<\/strong>Is a Finnish fiddler and singer of contemporary folk music. She studied at the Sibelius Academy. She is known for her work with the band Hedningarna; during this time she developed a strong interest in ancient Finnish runo-songs, which compose the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. Tellu has performed with ensembles such as Loituma, Piniartut, Tallari, Luna Nova, and many others. Her most famous work is Kevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden.<\/p>\nGwyneth Walker | b. 1974
\n<\/strong>Gwyneth Walker is a graduate of Brown University and the Hartt School of Music. She holds BA, MM and DMA Degrees in Music Composition. A former faculty member of the Oberlin College Conservatory, she resigned from academic employment in 1982 in order to pursue a career as a full-time composer. She now lives on a dairy farm in Braintree, Vermont. Her recent works include two new SATB choral\/orchestral sets, The Morning Train and Alpha and Omega, as well as Blessings from the Children and The Circus of Creation.<\/p>\nChen Yi | b. 1953
\n<\/strong>In 1986, Chinese-born composer Chen Yi became the first woman to earn a master\u2019s degree in composition in China. She is a recipient of a Grammy award and the Charles Ives Living Award, and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well commissions from Yo-Yo Ma & the Pacific Symphony and the LA Philharmonic. She has served on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory and currently teaches composition at the Conservatory of the University of Missouri \u2013 Kansas City.<\/p>\nJudith Lang Zaimont | b. 1945
\n<\/strong>Judith Lang Zaimont is an internationally known composer, famous for her one hundred works in genres ranging from symphonies to chamber music and solo works. Her music has been described as \u201cpowerful\u201d, \u201cexpressive\u201d, \u201cprovocative\u201d, and \u201cbrilliant\u201d. Among major ensembles that have commissioned and performed her works are the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony. Ms. Zaimont is also a respected teacher, having served on the faculties of Queens College and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amy Beach | 1867-1944 Composer and pianist Amy Beach wrote over three hundred works in a variety of genres including a mass, a symphony, a piano concerto, and works for chamber ensembles, piano, mixed chorus, and solo voice. Considered the foremost American female composer of her time, she was highly disciplined and known for her ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"coauthors":[5],"class_list":["post-682","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpautop"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/682\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdc-f5-www-esm.rochester.edu-vs.its.rochester.edu\/wmf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}