Laura Schwendinger

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Full Name	Laura Schwendinger
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Jan 26, 1962(1962-01-26)
Age	62
Birthplace	Mexico City
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Laura Schwendinger Biography

Laura Schwendinger is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on January 26, 1962 in Mexico City, United States. Laura Elise Schwendinger (born January 26th 1962) was the first composer who won the American Academy in Berlin’s Berlin Prize.

Performances from her compositions include her “Pocket Concerto” commission by Miller Theatre in New York, Chiaroscuro Azzurro, premiered by violinist Jennifer Koh and the International Contemporary Ensemble and the cello concerto Esprimere composed for and performed by Matt Haimovitz as well as the University of Wisconsin Madison Symphony Orchestra.

In more recent years, her Creature Quartet was premiered by the JACK Quartet on the Union Concert series in Madison WI, her Arc of Fire, a Chamber Music America Commission was performed on WFMT radio in Chicago and twice at Bryant Park in New York City. As part of Schwendinger’s League of American Orchestras New Music Alive residency with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in 2016, her Waking Dream was performed by Mary Boodell, the principal flute of the orchestra on their Altria Masterworks series.

In 2017, Schwendinger was commissioned by the National Flute Association to compose a work for their Young Artist Competition, at their National Conference in Minnesota, and her opera will be performed in Milan Italy, directed by Federica Santambrogio in an upcoming season.Upcoming projects include a new work for the adventurous new music ensemble Musiqa, inspired by Paris after dark.

Her work has also been performed in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln-Center, Times Center, Symphony Space, BargeMusic, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University, Corcoran Gallery, Poisson Rouge, and the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. The work of Schwendinger’s UnSafe Commission Shadings, for the American Composers Orchestra, was first performed in Zankel Hall in 2012, and her Seven Choral Settings were performed in 2013 with members of the Trinity Wall Street Chorus and Matt Haimovitz, under the direction of Julian Wachner. She received a commission to compose a piece to accompany Sounding Beckett at the Classic Stage Company in New York City. Jenna Scherer wrote in her Time Out review of the workthat “Laura Schwendinger’s piece for Footfalls is particularly effective, featuring stretches in which the musicians play their instruments so lightly, it could just be the autumn wind blowing through their strings. Beckett’s works demand postviewing brooding, and these haunting soundscapes offer an appropriately moody place to drift.”

Laura Schwendinger Net Worth

Laura Schwendinger is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laura Schwendinger 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In addition to the ones mentioned above Beyond that, Schwendinger has won awards of The Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Rockefeller Foundation, eight Yaddo Corporation fellowships and Ten MacDowell Colony fellowships, and the Liguria Conference Center, American League of Orchestras as well as New Music Alive, Opera America as well as an early prize-winner of 1995’s ALEA III International Composition Competition. She is among only a handful of composers who have received the two Koussevitzky Foundation commissions.

The setting she performed in JustSpring was performed live by Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish from 1997 to 2013 in places like Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London and at the Theatre Chatelet located in Paris, Morgan Library, the National Arts Center in Canada as well as in and at the Tanglewood and Ojai Music Festivals from 1997 to 2013. It is available on Naxos DVD/TDK, Voices of Our Time, featuring Upshaw along with Kalish as well as being recorded by The Theatre Chatalet.

Schwendinger is a Professor of Composition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and Head of Composition. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, where she studied with Andrew Imbrie and Olly Wilson. Schwendinger has been invited to present her music to seminars at Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Juilliard School, the University of California at Berkeley, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin.

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Laura Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Laura Schwendinger celebrates birthday on January 26 of every year.