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    First Berlin Prize Winner in Music

    LAURA ELISE SCHWENDINGER

    check back August 15, 2022
       for site revamp and updates

    Interview with Ching Juhl on YouTube

     2020 FROMM FOUNDATION AWARDEE WITH MUSIQA

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    Artemisia-an opera-Schwendinger-2020-Score(2)TR.pdf

    link to full performance of Artemisia here

     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.

     

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    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 

    excerpts on Artemisia page, link here

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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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    @ 2016 Laura Elise Schwendinger