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The 2023 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Charles Ives Opera Award ($50,000) with librettist Ginger Strand
for their opera Artemisia
ARTEMISIA
an opera about Artemisia Gentileschi, fueled by passion, betrayal and art in 17th Century Italy
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
NY Times review https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/music/classical-music-youtube.html
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
"talent to burn..."-Fanfare
"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
"The Genuine Article..onto the season's 'best list' it goes" -Boston Globe
"Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Proves That Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand"
"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
FULL LEFT COAST CHAMBER ENSEMBLE PRODUCTION AT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkj70NE8LKg
Oct. 8, 2022
Nightingales (17:00) for two violins and orchestra,
Featuring Eleanor Bartsch, Ariana Kim and the UWSO with Oriol Sans conducting.
Oct. 1/2, 2022
Nightingales (17:00) for two violins and orchestra,
Featuring Eleanor Bartsch, Ariana Kim and the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. William Intrilligator, Directing.
R E C E N T C O N C E R T S
Projects, premieres, works, performances with Collage New Music, Atlanta Symphony Principal harpist Elizabeth rely Johnson, Earplay, Spektral Quartet Bernard Rands Effect, PANdemonium4, Eleanor and Alice Bartsch with the UW and Dubuque Symphonies, Triopolis, Vocal Ensemble Artemisia, Cabaret of Shadows with Musiqa in Houston & , Hawk's Nest Northwestern Sax Ensemble and the Black Oak Ensemble.
Una Bevissimo Canzone Senza Parole, for string trio
BLACK OAK Ensemble at Epiphany Arts space,
May 18, 2023
April 29, 2023
A Concerto for piano, based on Second Sight
Chicago Composer's Orchestra
Christopher Taylor, piano
April 23, 2023
Fluorescenza, Matt Haimovitz's Primavera project at BargeMusic in Brooklyn, NY.
Feb. 25, 2023
Second Sight for Elizabeth Remy Johnson, Principal Harp, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Emory University Orchestra at 100.
Feb. 16, 2023
Hawk's Nest, new saxophone ensemble work for Taimur Sullivan's NU Sax Ensemble at
Northwestern University, Evanston IL.
Feb. 2, 2023
Conor Nelson performs Aurora with Christopher Taylor and at other concerts in Spring 2023
Chicago Classical Reader review of Black Oak Ensemble
"The Black Oak Ensemble demonstrated their bona fides in Laura Schwendinger’s una brevissima canzone senza parole, a short work adapted from her string quartet una brevecanzone senza parole. The trio upholstered the piece’s melancholic clusters chords with velvet sonority, making sensitive adjustments in timbral character as Pederzoli’s mournful viola incantations emerged and re-submerged into the texture."
Jan. 15, 2023
Collage New Music, Brushstrokes
Oct. 1-2, 2022
Sept., 2022
August, 2022
May, 2022
Sept. 27-28, 2022
Nightingales for Eleanor and Alice Bartsch
Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, and UW Symphony Orchestra
Bogliasco FoundationFellowship and residency
Five Friends Guest Composer, Indiana University
Sinfonietta performed
https://blogs.iu.edu/jsomnme/repertoire/
Sinfonietta (2012) performed
Copland House award and residency
Visby, Composers Centre Fellowship, Sweden
Currently playing...
VII. Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, by Gustav Klimt from
ARTIST'S MUSE, with Chameleon Arts Ensemble
by Laura Schwendinger
March 7
March 14
April 2
April 15
2022
Spektral Quartet, Una Breve Canzona Senza Parole
Bernard Rands Effect
Kalamazoo
Constellations, Chicago
Madison, WI
Southern IL Univ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHYgXLlHL8o
The Bernard Rands Effect, Contellation Chicago
UW Madison, Mead Witter Hall.
On tour (Michigan etc.)
Other projects Recent CD release and
upcoming or in process
March 5, 7 2021
Cabaret of Shadows - A Fromm Foundation Comission
and a chamber opera for Musiqa, about after hours club spaces in Paris at the Belle époque conception collaboration with lighting artist Leni Schwendinger and text by Ginger Strand a 2020 Fromm Foundation Commission awardee
March 1, 2 2022
The Cygnus Ensemble has recorded Footfalls from the acclaimed
"Sounding Beckett" Series
Matt Haimovitz Cello, Primavera Project,
Primavera I: The Wind
Fluorenscenza on Oxingale Records. https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/oxingale-presents-primavera-i-the-wind/
Over the Misty Mountains with oboist Aaron Hill on CD Solitary Discourse
https://www.soundset.com/album/SR1120/
Durward Ensemble, ECLIPSE
On CD Daughters of Earth
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B07LBMPLLM
https://soundcloud.com/user-809404507/eclipse-by-laura-elise-schwendinger
https://music.apple.com/us/album/daughters-of-earth-new-works-by-women-composers/1446705287
CDS forthcoming on Albany featuring solo piano works
with Christopher Taylor
The Violinists in My Life with Miranda Cuckson and
Flute and piano literature with Christina Jennings and
Kay Ryan Songs featuring Mezzo Patricia Green,
cellist Leonardo Altino and pianist Chrsitopher Taylor
Aug. 4/6, 2021
Tour 2022
July. 20, 2021
Nine Muses, PANdemonium4 presented by the Johnstone Fund for New Music, has been rescheduled. Vanderelli Room's outdoor space with a rain date of Tuesday, August 3 at 7:00 PM
Trace Johnson Cello, playing ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, Madison Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison WI
Madison New Music Festival
All the Pretty Little Horses (2018) - Laura Schwendinger Trace Johnson, Cello October, 2020
Release date Nov. 2021
Matt Haimovitz Cello, Primavera Project,
Primavera I: The Wind
Fluorenscenza on Oxingale Records. https://www.pentatonemusic.com/product/oxingale-presents-primavera-i-the-wind/
With works by: David Sanford, Vijay Iyer, Jake Heggie, Luna Pearl Woolf, Gabriella Smith, David T. Little, Nkeiru Okoye, Jorge Sosa, inti figgis-vizueta, Roberto Sierra, Asher Sizemore, Tod Machover, Laura Elise Schwendinger, Lisa Bielawa
April 30, 2021
New Music Chicago Presents C3 at Nevermore
7/20 7:30pm
March 15, 2021
ARTEMISIA vocal ensemble, with Chicago Composers Consortium. http://c3composers.org/wordpress3/?p=931 STARS (premiere) and All Those That Love You by Laura Schwendinger
Feb. 21, 2021
Creature Quartet, https://music.uiowa.edu/resources/events/center-new-music-ensemble-iii
Center for Contemporary Music, February 21
Added to JACK Vimeo page here
Jan. 22, 2021
Trace Johnson Cello, playing ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, Madison Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison WI
Love Sonnets, Baker & Baker presents
Duo Cortona
Friday, January 22 | 7:00 – 8:30 p.m | YouTube
https://www.columbiamuseum.org/events/baker-baker-presents-duo-cortona
Durward Ensemble, ECLIPSE
https://music.amazon.com/albums/B07LBMPLLM
https://soundcloud.com/user-809404507/eclipse-by-laura-elise-schwendinger
On CD Daughters of Earth
https://music.apple.com/us/album/daughters-of-earth-new-works-by-women-composers/1446705287
F E A T U R E D N E W S A N D R E V I E W S
January, 2021
Recording session in Marfa TX of Primavera Trasformata for Cello Solo, A Primavera Project Commission from Matt Haimovitz
August 8, 2020
to be
rescheduled
Nonet, Aspen Music Festival.
Tim Weiss-Director, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Aspen Music Festival and School
Laura at MacDowell
David Hoose, Joan Tower, Scott Lindroth, Marjorie Merryman and Laura Schwendinger
Collage Concert Jan. 15, 2023
March 2022 The Rands Effect, Spektral at
Constellation
Aspen Music Festival 2020 Virtual Season Seminar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJXCOVsHas
starts at 7:01
This roundtable discussion focused on the history and currency of the realities facing women composers.
Chaired by Julia Wolfe, the intergenerational participants reflect on their shared heritage as female composers—a lineage in which they are defining members.
Participating composers include Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, and Laura Schwendinger. Joseph Pfender moderates. There will be the opportunity for audience questions through the chat function.
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Julia Wolfe
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Zosha Di Castri
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Tania León
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Missy Mazzoli
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Jessie Montgomery
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Laura Schwendinger
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Joan Tower
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Joseph Pfender
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moderator
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Staging Artemisia
The artist's life in performance
Discover how Artemisia's story has been told in opera and theatre
Friday, 6 November 2020
6 - 7.15 pm BST; Available online only
Featuring Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens, co-founders of multimedia performance company Breach, whose play 'It’s True, It’s True, It’s True' is a gripping dramatisation of the 1612 rape trial brought by Artemisia. Also participating are composer Laura Schwendinger and librettist Ginger Strand, whose opera, 'Artemisia', produced in New York and San Francisco, is a riveting portrayal of the artist’s story. Both productions will be made available to attendees following the event.
Worthy new music by Chicago composers receives uneven advocacy at Epiphany
Fri May 19, 2023 at 11:45 am
By Landon Hegedus
The Black Oak Ensemble demonstrated their bona fides in Laura Schwendinger’s una brevissima canzone senza parole, a short work adapted from her string quartet una breve canzone senza parole. The trio upholstered the piece’s melancholic clusters chords with velvet sonority, making sensitive adjustments in timbral character as Pederzoli’s mournful viola incantations emerged and re-submerged into the texture.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
JANUARY 17, 2023
in: reviews
Expert New Music Advocacy
by Mark DeVoto
About 60 people braved the mushy falling snow on Sunday night to hear Collage New Music’s generally loud but satisfying delivery of four well-wrought and likable works in the relatively small Killian Hall at MIT. The four composers discussed their works beforehand.
Laura Schwendinger’s Brushstrokes led off. The titles of the seven short movements include some painting terms, including “Contrapposto,” which the composer described as “a counterpoint of textures.” This meant a lot of octaves and scales, and figures in paired instruments, setting the tone for ff accents; “Mobile” and “Kinetic Sculpture” responded with bunches and sudden bursts, especially in the upper register (sometimes the cello soared above the treble clef). Softer textures prevailed in the bell chords of no. 5, “Pointillism,” and no. 6, “Sfumato,” trills and tremolos, flute and violin, with brushed cymbal almost suggesting a quiet dance hall. The concluding movement, “Collage” [no connection to the hosting ensemble], brought back the furious octaves of “Contrapposto” with more tremolos and a tango beat, for a short wrapup.
January, 2021 Recording session with Matt Haimovitz, Fluorescenza
in Marfa, TX for the Primaveranzia, LLC Released on Oxingale
Primavera: The Wind
ARTEMISIA and Left Coast Awarded $20,000 from then NEA, through the community engagement program.
The Floating Lounge
C3 Composers Martha Horst and
Laura Schwendinger with the Spektral Quartet
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 7:30 PM 8:30 PM, Zoom
ARTEMISIA AT TRINITY in BROADWAY WORLD, MUSICAL AMERICA
and New Yorker & reviewed in the NY Times
New York Times Review!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/music/classical-music-youtube.html
“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
Video at:
From San Francisco Classical Voice,
"Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Proves That Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand"
World premiere of Chamber Version by Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, June 3, 2019
-"Laura Schwendinger's Artemisia, on the other hand, is sumptuous on every level...Schwendinger’s score is striking. Often, it’s the little things, like the intoning of ‘Susanna’: the stressed syllable rising before the terminal fall, a nagging presence grudgingly accepted. Or the resolutions of the diminished fourths in Tommaso’s aria, a breathtaking piece of worry and longing...Most memorably, the music underscores Artemisia’s deteriorating vision. Tender, high-pitched glimmers shift so as to be out of reach. The shadows are flat-sounding chords: impressionistic, but with a distinctly contemporary sensibility.”
- By Rebecca Wishnia; Link to review https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/left-coast-chamber-ensemble/left-coast-chamber-ensemble-proves-that-great-opera-neednt-be
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/arts/music/classical-music-youtube.html
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/classical-music/times-arrow-2?fbclid=IwAR3Ds-LGg0g0nRRk_b3KQA81xcz8Gn8Dt_XSvKq84IfAZ472NULOkrApfy0
https://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?archived=0&storyID=42150&categoryID=5
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music-arts/2018-2019/times-arrow
http://www.leftcoastensemble.org/dorothea-artemisia/
https://www.sfcv.org/music-news/left-coast-doubles-down-on-the-old-new-model
March 28, 31
April 25, 2020
to be
rescheduled
Tripolis; This Flood of Stillness, University of North Texas- College of Music - Musical Arts Series at Southeastern Oklahoma ( Recital Hall ), Chamber Music International Season Fundraising Concert
April 18, 2020
to be
rescheduled
March 16, 2020
For Paris, Wisconsin Chamber Choir Music She Wrote https://www.wisconsinchamberchoir.org/our-season
Guest Speaker, Forum series at Juilliard School
March 1, 2020
NONET, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble: Timothy Weiss, conductor
https://www.oberlin.edu/events/oberlin_contemporary_music_ensemble_timothy_weiss_conductor_6944
Feb 16, 2020
Jan. 28, 2020
Jan. 4, 2020
Constellations for flute and percussion. SF Conservatory, Kick-Off Weekend | New Music Ensemble. Nicole Paiement, Director. https://sfcm.edu/performance-calendar/event/kick-weekend-new-music-ensemble
SAN FRANCISCO, Z Space, 450 Florida St, San Francisco, Saturday, June 1/ 2, 2019
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble Proves That Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand
By Rebecca Wishnia , June 3, 2019
World premiere of chamber version
http://www.leftcoastensemble.org/dorothea-artemisia
INTERVIEW ON KDFC https://www.kdfc.com/2019/05/artemesia-from-left-coast-chamber-ensemble/
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
ARTEMISIA. An opera of passion, betrayal and art in 17th cent Italy. Libretto by Ginger Strand
Trinity Wall Street Novus ( premiere),
Left Coast Ensemble world premiere (new chamber version), Center for Contemporary Opera (60 min preview with piano)
https://www.trinitywallstreet.org/music-arts/2018-2019/times-arrow
Cast
Augusta Caso - Artemisia
Heather Buck - Susanna/ Abra
Oliver Mercer – Agostino Tassi/Elder 1
Christopher Burchett – Cosimo di Medici/Elder 2
Brian Giebler – Tomasso/Occulist
NOVUS NY; Lidiya Yankovskaya, conductor; Christopher Alden, stage director
http://ls.wisc.edu/news/schwendingers-artemesia-to-make-new-york-premier
Yeti, Cupacabra and Nessy from Creature Quartet
8th Annual Caroga Lake Music Festival based in Caroga Lake, NY
Aaron Hill will be touring with Over the Misty Mountains to Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. He will be playing recitals. I'll be at Southern Miss 3/18, Troy University 3/19-20, UGA 3/22, and spending a day at the Atlanta Music Project 3/23.
June 1, 2 2019
Sept. 28, 2019
March 2, 5 2019
Feb. 8, 2020
Eastman School, Rochester
Feb. 3, 2020
Aug 30,
2019
Thrive Music, Baltimore
March 18
19-20,
22 2019
March 24
2018
Brescia Italy,High Wire Acts
dèdalo ensemble
flute Daniela Cima, clarinet Nicola Zuccalà, violins Giacomo Invernizzi and Daniele Richiedei,viola Carlo Costalbano, cello Matteo Zurletti, piano Elena Pasotti
Vittorio Parisi director
Heather Buck – Susanna; Oliver Mercer –
Tassi in Trinity Wall Street NOVUS production
"Artemisia, on the other hand, is sumptuous on every level...Schwendinger’s score is striking."
-SF Classical Voice
‘Artemisia lasts just 80 minutes, but fits in big
themes set to music of quivering intensity"
- NY Times
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Trinity Wall Street workshop of Artemisia with Marnie Breckenridge
Left Coast Ensemble in rehearsals with Marnie Breckenridge, Bethany Cofland and Matilda Hofman
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“an acute sonic imagination and sure command of craft”
-Chicago Tribune
"darkly attractive, artful and moving…" -NY Times
“it evokes a sense of serene mystery
and infinite beauty” -Fanfare
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Richard Troxell and Augusta Caso in
rehearsal for Artemisia with Trinity Wall Street
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Sara Jobin, Director, Kevin Johnson-Cosimo
Daniel Folz-Morrison-Tassi, Jennifer Sgroe
Rehearsals for Nov 3. performance at
https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/artemisia
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Center for Contemporary Opera preview, Artemisia
https://centerforcontemporaryopera.org/2018-2019-season/artemisia/
https://centerforcontemporaryopera.org/season-2018-2019/
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre, Saturday November 3rd, 2018
2537 Broadway at 95th Street
By Laura Elise Schwendinger, With Libretto by Ginger Strand
Conductor Sara Jobin, Stage Director Fred Ambrose
Pianist Jerome Tan
Cast:
Artemisia Augusta Caso
Tommaso Blake Friedman
Susanna Jennifer Sgroe
Abra/Tuzia Anastasiya Roytman
Elder 1 Daniel Folz-Morrison
Elder 2 Kevin Johnson
Adam Keunzal plays Aurora
https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/about/who-we-are/musicians-soloists-conductors/orchestra-musicians/321-flute/713-adam-kuenzel
https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/showcase/308-essay
https://www.justflutes.com/laura-elise-schwendinger-aurora-product1433876.html#gref
Atlantic Center Master residency
https://www.facebook.com/events/781053828767268/
Feb 24
2019
UW Iowa, Concert to celebrate Olly Wilson
Schwendinger Sinfonietta and more
https://arts.uiowa.edu/events/cnm-ensemble-concert-iii/2019-02-24
Feb 12 2019
Far Over the Misty Mountains,
Aaron Hill's UNR Oboe Recital
Feb 10 2019
High Wire Act
Collage New Music, Boston with Lash, Shepard,
Park and David Rakowski's music, http://www.collagenewmusic.org/concert-info-and-tickets/concert2
Jan 28
2019
Phillip Bush, Ari Streisfeld, Rachel Calloway Streisfeld, and Claire Bryant, brilliant musicians all, are on this show. Music by Laura Elise Schwendinger, Caroline Shaw, Alvin Singleton, Gabriela Lena Frank, Philip Glass, \Kamala Sankaram, and Judith Weir. At the Columbia Museum of Art.
Laura, JACK Quartet, Christopher Taylor and Jamie Van Eyck at Oktaven Studios during recording session of Creature Quartet
JACK named Ensemble of the year by Musical America. Laura's CD mentioned in Strings magazine
Laura signs exclusive publishing catalog contract with Keiser Southern
https://keisersouthernmusic.com/composers/laura-schwendinger
Jan 26
2019
All the Pretty Little Horses,
Ensemble 4 These Times, San Francisco
Jan 25-27
2019
CHAI COLLABORATIVE ENSEMBLE performs
LOVE SONNETS
CHAI based in Chicago are dedicated to performing substantial and approachable programs of mixed vocal and instrumental chamber music. Our repertoire runs the gamut, ranging from beloved classics to newly commissioned works, with many hidden gems
Jan 25th-27th https://www.chaicollaborative.org/
Jan 20
2019
Eclipse, Durward Music, https://www.facebook.com/events/236934557208382/ Coe College, Iowa
Dec 2
2018
Adam Kuenzel, Minnesota Orchestra Principal Flutist, Minnesota Orchestra
JOYA Conert Series, featuring music of Poulenc, Martinu and Schwendinger (Aurora). Zion Lutheran Church. Anoka, MN
Nov 18
2018
Faculty Recital of Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano
University of Michigan
Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall
Repertoire for this evening’s recital will be Mozart’s Fantasy in C Minor, K. 396, Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17, Laura Schwendinger’s Van Gogh Nocturnes for Solo Piano (2008), and Debussy’s Petite Suite for Piano Four Hands with Hyejin Cho, piano.
https://events.umich.edu/event/56649
Nov 2
2018
Center for Contemporary Opera, excerpt
from Artemisia, Sara Jobin, conductor
Symphony Space, NY
https://centerforcontemporaryopera.org/2018-2019-season/artemisia/
Laura, Matt Madden, and Tracie Morris, Master Artists, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Residency #170. July 2018
https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/event-or-exhibition/insideout-residency-170/
Laura receives MacDowell and Yaddo fellowships for
Summer 2020, 2018 (an eleven time awardee)
http://portablemacdowell.org/#news/84-artists-awarded-macdowell-fellowships-for-summer-residencies
https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/84-Artists-Awarded-MacDowell-Fellowships-for-Summer-Residencies-20180423
84 Artists Awarded MacDowell Fellowships for Summer Residencies
Press Release – April 23, 2018
Press Releases Artist News Fellowships
The MacDowell Colony has awarded fellowships to 84 artists from 18 states and six countries, from Colorado to Virginia and from Portugal to Nigeria. They are working in seven disciplines, and 43 percent identify as culturally diverse while 56 percent are women. The fellowships are for upcoming summer residencies at one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations.
The incoming group of MacDowell Fellows includes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer, poet Monica Youn, composers Mark Dresser, Laura Schwendinger, and Kate Soper, performance artist John Kelly, playwrights Brian Selznick and Rebecca Taichman,
filmmakers João Rui Guerra da Mata and João Pedro Rodrigues, and visual artists Nayland Blake, Tod Lippy, and Mary Lum.
CD QUARTETS RELEASED featuring JACK QUARTET
JACK is Musical America's Ensemble of the year!
REVIEWS OUT in MAY/ JUNE FANFARE
For QUARTETS!
"Gestural and yet powerfully organized, Schwendinger’s voice is highly individual. The performance by the JACK Quartet is impeccable, and as a
studio recording it is technically more secure than the live Vimeo video. The sheer intensity of both music and performance thereof is spellbinding, as if the passion of the composer for her subject shines through like a light."
-Colin Clarke-
On Albany Records Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0G7Jx3pubw
Excerpt on Vimeo of Animated Version, premiere, featuring animations by
Pauline Gagniarre; https://vimeo.com/246846582
http://jackquartet.com/albumcovers/
http://www.leftcoastensemble.org/community-events/2018/5/18/kurt-rohdes-farewell-tour-part-1
Oct 27
2018
Michael Strauss Violist, performs
FOR PARIS at University of Indianapolis