Happy Birthday, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich!

Happy Birthday, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich!

by | Apr 30, 2015

Today is the birthday of internationally acclaimed American composer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Liane Curtis and I had the pleasure of meeting Ellen at the 2014 Society for American Music Conference where her...
Zwilich Honored by Society for American Music

Zwilich Honored by Society for American Music

by | Mar 7, 2014

Today (Mar. 7) composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939) is being inducted by the Society for American Music as its newest Honorary Member, in a ceremony taking place at the Society’s annual conference. The New Grove Dictionary of Music describes Zwilich “one of...

New Choral Commissions!

by | Feb 27, 2013

In honor of their 25th anniversary season, the New York Virtuoso Singers have commissioned 25 new choral works from American composers. Thirteen of the new pieces will be premiered in NYC on March 3rd, including works by: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Augusta Read Thomas Thea...

New Work from Zwilich

by | Oct 30, 2008

The New York Times reviewed the premiere of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 5. Zwilich, who has broken a lot of ground for women composers including being the first woman composer to earn a doctorate from Juilliard as well as being the first woman composer to win...