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    First Berlin Prize Winner in Music

    LAURA ELISE SCHWENDINGER

    NEWS!

              2020 FROMM FOUNDATION awardee

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    Artemisia, the opera, Ginger Strand and Laura Schwendinger

    were featured in online event from the National Gallery of Art London. Nov. 6th, 2020

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     ARTEMISIA  

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    an opera about Artemisia Gentileschi, fueled by passion, betrayal and art in 17th Century Italy

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    Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Proves That Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand

    By Rebecca Wishnia , June 3, 2019 

    - Left Coast Chamber Ensemble; World premiere of chamber version, SF, Z Space June 1/ 2, 2019

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    NY Times review https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/music/classical-music-youtube.html

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    INTERVIEW ON KDFC https://www.kdfc.com/2019/05/artemesia-from-left-coast-chamber-ensemble/

    ON BBC Radio 3, a Jo Wheeler production, featuring Laura and Ginger Strand

    @ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000cyzs

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    With a libretto by Ginger Strand, Featuring: Artemisia: Bethany Cofland; Tomasso: Kyle Stegall; Susanna: Marnie Breckenridge; Abra/Tuzia: Nikki Einfeld ; Jonathan Smucker and Igor Vieira; Elder 1/ Tassi, Elder 2/ Cosimo, Matilda Hofman, conductor. With amazing projections by Andrew Lucia.

     

    excerpts on Artemisia page, link here

    "talent to burn..."-Fanfare 

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    Orchestral world premiere by Trinity Wall Street NOVUS, with Christopher Alden - stage director and

    Lidiya Yankovskaya conductor, Libretto by Ginger Strand

     

    Artemisia received its orchestral premiere on the Time’s Arrow, Festival -- March 7 and was reviewed by the NEW YORK TIMES

    https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/video/times-arrow-artemisia

     

    FULL TRINITY PRODUCTION AT

    https://vimeo.com/334827356

    Featuring: Augusta Caso – Artemisia Gentileschi; Heather Buck – Susanna; Oliver Mercer – Agostino Tassi/Elder 1,

    Christopher Burchett – Cosimo di Medici/Elder 2, Richard Troxell – Tomasso/Oculist, and Melissa Baker Flute

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    NEW YORK TIMES Review-

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    "Artemisia” lasts just 80 minutes, but fits in big themes set to music of quivering intensity. The story of the rape is there, blended with Gentileschi’s unbearably compassionate painting of the biblical character Susanna, who was ogled and shamed in her bath. But larger questions of idea and form, image and projection, sight and gaze also find nuanced and intelligent treatment." CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM

    NY Times review https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/music/classical-music-youtube.html

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    "The Genuine Article..onto the season's 'best list' it goes"                                                                                              -Boston Globe

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     "Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Proves That Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand"    

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    "Laura Schwendinger's Artemisia, on the other hand, is sumptuous on every level...Schwendinger’s score is striking. ...

     Tommaso’s aria,   a breathtaking piece of worry and longing...Most memorably, the music underscores Artemisia’s  

     deteriorating vision." -SF Classical Voice 

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      FULL LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE PRODUCTION AT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkj70NE8LKg

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    link to full performance of Artemisia here

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    Sara Jobin conducts a CCO rehearsal
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    CCO Artemisia -side by https://sside
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    Laura meets Artemisia
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    snapshot from LCCE performance with Nikk
    CHOIR ending Artemisia LCCE
    CHOIR ending Artemisia LCCE
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
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    Laura at MacDowell
    Rome
    Rome
    Trinity at Carnegie Hall
    Trinity at Carnegie Hall
    Concert featuring Laura's Six Choral Settings for choir and featuring Matt Haimovitz on cello
    SHADINGS
    SHADINGS
    American Composers Orchestra at Zankel, Carnegie Hall. And UnSafe Commission. Collaboration with lighting artist Leni Schwendinger. George Manahan, conductor. 2014Playing It UNsafe, opens the laboratory to more experienced composers. The orchestra commissioned Joan La Barbara, Laura Schwendinger, Henry Threadgill, Sean Friar and David Heuser to use the orchestra as a canvas, creating new works from scratch — or in some cases, from a notebook full of ideas — in five public workshops and a c
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    Laura at Carnegie Hall
    Before the performance of her Six Choral Settings with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Julian Wachner conducting and featuring Matt Haimovitz
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    192579_10150105829969212_6615764_o
    Lincoln Center, after a premiere
    Lincoln Center, after a premiere
    The New Juilliard ensemble, under Joel Sachs premieres the Sinfonietta in three movements (2014)
    MacDowell Colony
    MacDowell Colony
    Watson Studio
    MacDowell Composers
    MacDowell Composers
    Summer 2015
    Laura
    Laura
    Frankfurt Germany
    MacDowell Colony
    MacDowell Colony
    Laura Schwendinger has had ten MacDowell residencies
    Master Artists ACA 2018
    Master Artists ACA 2018
    Laura Schwendinger, Matt Madden and Tracie Morris, ACA #170
    Laura at ACA
    Laura at ACA
    Laura in Regensburg
    Laura in Regensburg
    During Laura's artistic residency at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf Germany
    New Music on the Point
    New Music on the Point
    Faculty composer, 2012
    Lincon Trio plays Arc of Fire
    Lincon Trio plays Arc of Fire
    Bryant Park, NY. A Chamber Music America Commission
    Laura and Ray Lustig
    Laura and Ray Lustig
    At American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards lunch. After she received the Leiberson Fellowship "for mid career composers of exceptional gifts"
    Richmond Symphony
    Richmond Symphony
    Waking Dream, Mary Boodell, flute and Steve Smith conductor
    Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
    Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
    Performing Animal Rhapsody
    Saas-Fee Switzerland
    Saas-Fee Switzerland
    Tallis Festival, Laura Schwendinger Guest Composer 2017
    Laura Schwendinger
    Laura Schwendinger
    In her studio
    Composer's studio
    Composer's studio
    Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland. Laura Schwendinger has been a returning resident artist
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Ireland
    Albany CD 3 WORKS
    Albany CD 3 WORKS
    Featuring Matt Haimovitz, Curtis Macomber, Nicole Paiement, and the Madison Sinfonietta featuring Sally Chisholm, Suzanne Beia, Stephanie Jutt and and Parry Karp
    Matt Haimovitz, Nicole Paiement
    Matt Haimovitz, Nicole Paiement
    Recording session for
    CD: 3 Works, on Albany
    COVER CREATURE
    COVER CREATURE
    Released in 2018, QUARTETS features the JACK Quartet, with Jamie Van Eyck and Christopher Taylor
    Laura ar Bellagio 1997
    Laura ar Bellagio 1997
    Composition Fellow
    With JACK at Oktaven 3
    With JACK at Oktaven 3
    Oktaven session for Albany CD: Quartets Release Date 1/1/18
    P. Gagniarre's images
    P. Gagniarre's images
    Creature Quartet animation, preliminary sketches
    Cover Iridos
    Cover Iridos
    Duo Cortona
    Duo Cortona
    Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway, performing Laura's LOVE SONNETS. Commissioned and performed on tour by the Cortona Duo
    Paris opera
    Paris opera
    Yaddo group 2007
    Yaddo group 2007
    Laura Schwendinger has had eight Yaddo residencies
    Noatble Women Cover
    Noatble Women Cover
    Desiree Ruhstrat
    Desiree Ruhstrat
    performs The Violinists in My Life
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Ireland
    Reading of UW student's works
    Reading of UW student's works
    *Thalia fro Nine Muses in Concert
    *Thalia fro Nine Muses in Concert
    Image - VIML 2
    Image - VIML 2
    *****ARC OF FIRE FINAL cover
    *****ARC OF FIRE FINAL cover
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Laura at MacDowell
    Laura at MacDowell
    *Constellations SCORE cover
    *Constellations SCORE cover
    Radcliffe Institute
    Radcliffe Institute
    Laura Schwendinger, 2003 Fellow
    Laura Schwendinger
    Laura Schwendinger
    Composer
    Augusta and Richard from Artemisia, lett
    Augusta and Richard from Artemisia, lett
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    DSC_9083 copy 3
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    DSC_8391 copy 2
    *Dawn in Just smaller
    *Dawn in Just smaller
    Artemisia panorama
    Artemisia panorama
    Lidiya Yankovskaya conductor
    Lidiya Yankovskaya conductor
    Lidiya Yankovskaya conducting NOVUS in rehearsals for Artemisia
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    4x4 imae from Opera
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    Group after Opera
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    TimesArrow_Program_Artemesia_Program cop
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    BBC4 cover 5
    Julian Wachner conducting
    Julian Wachner conducting
    Artemisia January 7, 2017, Times Arrow Festival, St. Paul's Chyrch NY
    Marnie Breckinridge sings Susanna in
    Marnie Breckinridge sings Susanna in
    Trinity Wall Street, Times Arrow festival, NY 2017
    Sara Jobin conducts a CCO rehearsal
    Sara Jobin conducts a CCO rehearsal
    Center for Contemporary opera in Artemisia rehearsals
    CCO Artemisia -side by https://sside
    CCO Artemisia -side by https://sside
    Laura meets Artemisia
    Laura meets Artemisia
    Rome, 2017
    Susanna and Elders Best wider 25
    Susanna and Elders Best wider 25
    IMG_2916
    IMG_2916
    Full Cast Bow SF
    Full Cast Bow SF
    Best-13
    Best-13
    collage self portrait
    collage self portrait
    % Judith - SF LCCE  wider
    % Judith - SF LCCE wider
    snapshot of opening of LCCE performance
    snapshot of opening of LCCE performance
    snapshot from LCCE performance with Nikk
    snapshot from LCCE performance with Nikk
    CHOIR ending Artemisia LCCE
    CHOIR ending Artemisia LCCE
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Laura at MacDowell
    Laura at MacDowell
    Rome
    Rome
    Trinity at Carnegie Hall
    Trinity at Carnegie Hall
    Concert featuring Laura's Six Choral Settings for choir and featuring Matt Haimovitz on cello
    SHADINGS
    SHADINGS
    American Composers Orchestra at Zankel, Carnegie Hall. And UnSafe Commission. Collaboration with lighting artist Leni Schwendinger. George Manahan, conductor. 2014Playing It UNsafe, opens the laboratory to more experienced composers. The orchestra commissioned Joan La Barbara, Laura Schwendinger, Henry Threadgill, Sean Friar and David Heuser to use the orchestra as a canvas, creating new works from scratch — or in some cases, from a notebook full of ideas — in five public workshops and a c
    Laura at Carnegie Hall
    Laura at Carnegie Hall
    Before the performance of her Six Choral Settings with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Julian Wachner conducting and featuring Matt Haimovitz
    192579_10150105829969212_6615764_o
    192579_10150105829969212_6615764_o
    Lincoln Center, after a premiere
    Lincoln Center, after a premiere
    The New Juilliard ensemble, under Joel Sachs premieres the Sinfonietta in three movements (2014)
    MacDowell Colony
    MacDowell Colony
    Watson Studio
    MacDowell Composers
    MacDowell Composers
    Summer 2015
    Laura
    Laura
    Frankfurt Germany
    MacDowell Colony
    MacDowell Colony
    Laura Schwendinger has had ten MacDowell residencies
    Master Artists ACA 2018
    Master Artists ACA 2018
    Laura Schwendinger, Matt Madden and Tracie Morris, ACA #170
    Laura at ACA
    Laura at ACA
    Laura in Regensburg
    Laura in Regensburg
    During Laura's artistic residency at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf Germany
    New Music on the Point
    New Music on the Point
    Faculty composer, 2012
    Lincon Trio plays Arc of Fire
    Lincon Trio plays Arc of Fire
    Bryant Park, NY. A Chamber Music America Commission
    Laura and Ray Lustig
    Laura and Ray Lustig
    At American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards lunch. After she received the Leiberson Fellowship "for mid career composers of exceptional gifts"
    Richmond Symphony
    Richmond Symphony
    Waking Dream, Mary Boodell, flute and Steve Smith conductor
    Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
    Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra
    Performing Animal Rhapsody
    Saas-Fee Switzerland
    Saas-Fee Switzerland
    Tallis Festival, Laura Schwendinger Guest Composer 2017
    Laura Schwendinger
    Laura Schwendinger
    In her studio
    Composer's studio
    Composer's studio
    Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland. Laura Schwendinger has been a returning resident artist
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Ireland
    Albany CD 3 WORKS
    Albany CD 3 WORKS
    Featuring Matt Haimovitz, Curtis Macomber, Nicole Paiement, and the Madison Sinfonietta featuring Sally Chisholm, Suzanne Beia, Stephanie Jutt and and Parry Karp
    Matt Haimovitz, Nicole Paiement
    Matt Haimovitz, Nicole Paiement
    Recording session for
    CD: 3 Works, on Albany
    COVER CREATURE
    COVER CREATURE
    Released in 2018, QUARTETS features the JACK Quartet, with Jamie Van Eyck and Christopher Taylor
    Laura ar Bellagio 1997
    Laura ar Bellagio 1997
    Composition Fellow
    With JACK at Oktaven 3
    With JACK at Oktaven 3
    Oktaven session for Albany CD: Quartets Release Date 1/1/18
    P. Gagniarre's images
    P. Gagniarre's images
    Creature Quartet animation, preliminary sketches
    Cover Iridos
    Cover Iridos
    Duo Cortona
    Duo Cortona
    Ari Streisfeld and Rachel Calloway, performing Laura's LOVE SONNETS. Commissioned and performed on tour by the Cortona Duo
    Paris opera
    Paris opera
    Yaddo group 2007
    Yaddo group 2007
    Laura Schwendinger has had eight Yaddo residencies
    Noatble Women Cover
    Noatble Women Cover
    Desiree Ruhstrat
    Desiree Ruhstrat
    performs The Violinists in My Life
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Tyrone Guthrie Center
    Ireland
    Reading of UW student's works
    Reading of UW student's works
    *Thalia fro Nine Muses in Concert
    *Thalia fro Nine Muses in Concert
    Image - VIML 2
    Image - VIML 2
    *****ARC OF FIRE FINAL cover
    *****ARC OF FIRE FINAL cover
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Mathieu Dufour and MPL. play Duo
    Laura at MacDowell
    Laura at MacDowell
    *Constellations SCORE cover
    *Constellations SCORE cover
    Radcliffe Institute
    Radcliffe Institute
    Laura Schwendinger, 2003 Fellow

    @ 2016 Laura Elise Schwendinger