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Her Chanson Innocente was performed by Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish at Carnegie Hall in New York, Herbst Theater in San Francisco, Veteran’s Wadsworth Theater in Los Angeles, Wigmore Hall in London, Theatre Chatelet in Paris and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Her works, Songs of Heaven and Earth, and Magic Carpet Music for The Theater Chamber Players were premiered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. She has also been performed by such groups as the The Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Hungarythe New York Camerata, ALEA III,the Chicago CUBE Ensemble, Washington D.C.‘s New Music Forum, the New Millennium Ensemble, Northwestern University New Music Ensemble, Vancouver New Music, Fear No Music of Portland and the Berkeley and Marin Symphony Orchestras.
Her music has been called "...music of considerable power" by The San Francisco Chronicle, as "fanciful" by The New York Times, as having " an impressive luster and transparency", poignant... and "revel(ing) in sinewy counterpoint"... by The Washington Post, as "reflect(ting) both inner pain and breast beating wails" bythe Bethesda Gazette, and as having "...an extravagant expressiveness" by The Seattle Weekly. Her works have been performed at the Aspen, June in Buffalo, Warebrook, Bowdoin, Bloch, Sandpoint, Pacific Contemporary, Norfolk Chamber Music and April in Santa Cruz Festivals. She has had residencies at the MacDowell, Yaddo, and Millay Colonies, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and in July 1997, she was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.
Dr. Schwendinger is an Assistant Prof. of Music at The University of Illinois at Chicago, where she teaches composition and theory. For ten years she was on the faculty of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Preparatory Division, where she developed a program for young composers. She has also been a lecturer at the Music Department of The University of California, Santa Cruz, at Smith College, and an Associate Researcher at The Five College Women’s Studies Research Center. Her Chamber Concerto reviewed in The American Record Guide as "melodic and atmospheric" is available on the Capstone label. Ms. Schwendinger is represented by Artists International Management
Life
Laura Elise Schwendinger received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where her principal teacher was Andrew Imbrie. She has also studied with John Adams, Olly Wilson, Milton Babbitt and Chinary Ung. Her honors include The American Academy in Berlin Prize Fellowship in composition (1999), the first composer to be awarded this prize, The Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Judge’s Commendation from The Barlow Endowment, the Norton Stevens fellowship from MacDowell Colony, two Meet the Composer Grants, an American Composers Forum Grant and First Prize of the 1995 ALEA III International Composition Competition, being the first American winner in over a decade and recently she was awarded commissions by the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University and the Harvard Musical Association.