Laura Schwendinger
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Laura Elise Schwendinger January 26, 1962 Mexico City |
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| Years active | 1994- |
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Laura Elise Schwendinger (born January 26, 1962) was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin's Berlin Prize.
Schwendinger is a Professor of Composition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, where she studied with Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson. Schwendinger has been invited to present her music to seminars at Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.
Schwendinger was born in Mexico City D.F. Mexico. Before her position in Madison, she taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Music Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Smith College and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Preparatory Division, where she started a program for young composers in 1985.
Her setting of in Just- spring was performed on tour by Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish from 1997 to 2013 at venues including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre Châtelet in Paris, Morgan Library, the National Arts Center in Canada and at the Tanglewood and Ojai Music Festivals. It is available on a Naxos TDK/DVD, Voices of Our Time, with Upshaw and Kalish and was recorded at The Theatre Chatalet.
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