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The 2023 recipient of American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Opera Award with librettist Ginger Strand for their opera, Artemisia



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.

ARTEMISIA
Ginger Strand & Laura Schwendinger
were featured in online event from the
National Gallery of Art in London. Nov. 6th, 2020
"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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"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
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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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PDFs of selected pages
Keiser Classical
https://keisersouthernmusic.com/composers/laura-schwendinger
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Representative scores/ pdfs can be can be requested through the contact page on this site
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The Violinists in My Life
1. Eleanor Bartsch (3:45) page 1 shown here
2. Wei He (2:15)
3. Miranda Cuckson (2:27)
4. Desiree Ruhstrat (3:07)
5. Curtis Macomber (2:57)

High Wire Act for flute, violin, viola, cello and piano. Commissioned by Christina Jennings and BrightMusic Ensemble


Esprimere for cello and orchestra
Written for and recorded by Matt Haimovitz- pages from Movement 2 On Albany CD 3 Works for Solo Instruments and Orchestra




For Paris
for viola and wordless choir
A memorial work Premiered by Sally Chisholm and Beverly Taylor with the UW Concert Choir


The Artist's Muse, A Koussevitzky Commission for the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston


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Songs of Heaven and Earth for mezzo soprano, flute clarinet, violin, cello, harp, piano and percussion
Four Settings of the poems by T'sai Yen, and from her Songs to a Tartar Reed Whistle

Aviary for 4 percussionists and piano. A visit to an imaginary Aviary after the zoo closes.







Wet Ink, for clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano,
A Bennington Conference Commission