Lisa Bielawa
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Lisa Bielawa is a composer and vocalist based in New York City. She is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition and spent a year composing as a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome
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, but it never felt entirely serious" She continued to perform and write music, but studied English at Yale
for her undergraduate degree, after receiving which, resumed her career in music. "She moved to New York two weeks after receiving her B.A. in Literature in 1990 from Yale University, and became an active participant in New York musical life. She began touring with the Philip Glass Ensemble
in 1992, and in 1997 co-founded the MATA Festival, which celebrates the work of young composers”
has been performed in New York at Judson Memorial Church
, The Brooklyn Museum, and Symphony Space
. She curated the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
’s Club Concerts. Other performances include Chance Encounters, a piece comprising song
s and aria
s constructed of speech overheard in transient public spaces, by soprano Susan Narucki
and The Knights at the Whitney Museum of American Art
; unfinish’d, sent by the Yerevan Ensemble of Soloists in Armenia
; and "Topos Nostalgia" from Chance Encounters with Ms. Bielawa as the soprano in Salzburg. World premieres in 2009 included Portrait-Elegy, written for pianist Bruce Levingston, in New York; The Project of Collecting Clouds at Seattle Town Hall by cellist Joshua Roman
and chamber ensemble; and in medias res, a concerto for orchestra commissioned by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the culmination of Ms. Bielawa’s three-year residency with that orchestra.
American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
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Biography
“Bielawa, who lives in New York and circles the globe for performances of her own compositions, was born in San Francisco. Her father is composer and retired San Francisco State music professor Herbert Bielawa”. Having been raised in a musical environment, Lisa Biewala has been musically active since early childhood, learning piano, voice, and violin in addition to writing music. Bielawa's beginnings as a composer were unintentional, "I'd write cabaret songs and pieces for the San Francisco Girls ChorusSan Francisco Girls Chorus
San Francisco Girls Chorus is a regional center for music education and performance for girls and young women, ages 7–18, based in San Francisco. More than 300 singers from 160 schools in 48 San Francisco Bay Area cities and towns participate in this internationally recognized program...
, but it never felt entirely serious" She continued to perform and write music, but studied English at Yale
YALE
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for her undergraduate degree, after receiving which, resumed her career in music. "She moved to New York two weeks after receiving her B.A. in Literature in 1990 from Yale University, and became an active participant in New York musical life. She began touring with the Philip Glass Ensemble
Philip Glass Ensemble
The Philip Glass Ensemble is a musical group founded by composer Philip Glass in 1968 to serve as a performance outlet for his experimental minimalist music. The Ensemble's instrumentation became a hallmark of Glass' early minimalist style...
in 1992, and in 1997 co-founded the MATA Festival, which celebrates the work of young composers”
Work
Ms. Bielawa’s chamber musicChamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
has been performed in New York at Judson Memorial Church
Judson Memorial Church
The Judson Memorial Church is located on Washington Square South between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, opposite Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City...
, The Brooklyn Museum, and Symphony Space
Symphony Space
Symphony Space is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization at 2537 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Performances take place in the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre or the 160-seat Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater. Programs include music, dance, theater, film, and literary readings...
. She curated the Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project is a full professional orchestra in Boston, Massachusetts, and is widely recognized as the premiere orchestra in the United States dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new music of the 20th and 21st centuries...
’s Club Concerts. Other performances include Chance Encounters, a piece comprising song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
s and aria
Aria
An aria in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer. The term is now used almost exclusively to describe a self-contained piece for one voice usually with orchestral accompaniment...
s constructed of speech overheard in transient public spaces, by soprano Susan Narucki
Susan Narucki
Susan Narucki is an American operatic soprano who specializes in performances of contemporary classical music. She has appeared in the world premieres of several operas at the Netherlands Opera including Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway's Writing to Vermeer and Claude Vivier's Reves d'un Marco...
and The Knights at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
; unfinish’d, sent by the Yerevan Ensemble of Soloists in Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
; and "Topos Nostalgia" from Chance Encounters with Ms. Bielawa as the soprano in Salzburg. World premieres in 2009 included Portrait-Elegy, written for pianist Bruce Levingston, in New York; The Project of Collecting Clouds at Seattle Town Hall by cellist Joshua Roman
Joshua Roman
Joshua Roman was the principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 2006 until 2008. Roman joined the orchestra at age 22, becoming the youngest principal player in Seattle Symphony history....
and chamber ensemble; and in medias res, a concerto for orchestra commissioned by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the culmination of Ms. Bielawa’s three-year residency with that orchestra.
Discography
Hildegurls: Electric Ordo Virtutum (Innova 712, 2009); A Handful of World (Tzadik 8039, 2007); First Takes (Albany Records TROY941, 2007); in medias res (BMOP/sound, 2010)Awards
- 1995 BRIOBronx Recognizes Its Own AwardThe Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award honors Bronx artists in a number of categories. It is given yearly by the Bronx Council on the Arts. Winners must be residents of the Bronx and are expected to do community service for a local arts organization as part of the award...
award - 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition
External links
- http://www.lisabielawa.com