Faye-Ellen Silverman

Faye- Ellen Silverman ( born October 2, 1947 in New York City ) is an American composer, music teacher and pianist.

Life

Silverman attended from the age of four at the Dalcroze School of Music. Thirteen- year old, she was winner of the Parents League Competition with the juror Leopold Stokowski. She continued her education at Barnard College, Harvard University and Columbia University. Her teachers included Otto Luening, William Sydeman, Leon Kirchner, Lukas Foss, Vladimir Ussachevski and Jack Beeson. She also was a piano student of Irma Wolpe and Russell Sherman. She taught, inter alia, at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, the City University of New York and Columbia University and since 1991 at the Mannes College of Music.

With their compositions Silverman represented the U.S. at the International Rostrum of Composers UNESCO, won the Indiana State Composition Contest, the Music Prize of the National League of American Pen Women's, several awards of ASCAP and a prize from the American Music Center. They also received scholarships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts ( 2007), the Rockefeller Foundation (1987 ) and the Composers' Conference ( 1985). Commissions they received, inter alia, by Philip A. De Simone, Linda J. Warren, Larry Madison, Thomas Matta, the International Women 's Brass Conference, the Monarch Brass Quintet, the Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates, the Con Spirito Woodwind Quintet, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and several wind ensemble under the National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program. They also composed pieces for the flutist Nina Assimakopoulos, Sergio Puccini and the Danish Corona Guitar Quartet.

As a pianist Silverman performed at the International Festival of Experimental Music in Bourges, in the Library of Congress and as a soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and played recordings of Radio Cologne. She is a founding member of the International Women 's Brass Conference and Composers' Union Music Under Construction.

Works

• Three Movements for alto and soprano saxophone, 1971
• Madness for narrator and chamber orchestra, 1972
• K. 1971, two narrator, tenor, bass, female chorus, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass and tape, 1972
• In Shadow for soprano, guitar and clarinet on texts by Emily Dickinson 1972
• The Miracle of Nemirov, opera in its libretto, 1974
• Memories for viola, 1974
• Conversations for alto flute and clarinet, 1975
• For Him for flute, cello and vibraphone, 1975
• Dialogue for horn and tuba, 1976
• Speaking for Flute Alone, 1976
• String Quartet, 1976
• Cape Wind for wind quintet, 1977
• Shading for chamber ensemble, 1978
• Settings for Piano, 1978
• Echoes of Emily for alto and English horn on texts by Emily Dickinson 1979
• Stirrings for chamber orchestra, 1979
• Three by Three for percussion trio, 1979
• To Love? for baritone and piano on texts by Coventry Patmore and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1980
• Oboe - sthenics for oboe solo, 1980
• 3 Guitars, 1980
• Yet For Him for Flute, Cello and Piano, 1980
• Winds and Sines for orchestra, 1981
• Kalends for wind quintet, 1981
• Speaking Together for violin and piano, 1981
• Quantum Quintet for wind quintet, 1982
• No Strings for chamber ensemble, 1982
• Tryst for two trumpets, 1982
• Layered Lament for English horn and tape, 1983
• On Four for electronic wind instrument, oboe or English horn and piano, 1983
• Volcanic Songs for Harp, 1983
• Gliffs for piano, 1984
• Passing Fancies for chamber ensemble, 1985
• Bridges in Time for chamber ensemble, 1986
• Restless Winds for wind quintet, 1986
• Adhesions for orchestra, 1987
• Hollowed choruses for oboe, violin and piano, 1987
• Candlelight for Piano and Orchestra, 1988
• Zigzags for Tuba, 1988
• A Free Pen, cantata, soprano, alto, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra, 1990
• Journey Towards Oblivion for soprano, tenor and chamber ensemble based on texts by Christina Rosetti and DH Lawrence, 1991
• Pas de Deux for marimba and piano, 1991
• First Position for trombone and marimba, 1992
• Xenium for Flute and Piano, 1992
• Unquiet Dreams for clarinet, violin and piano, 1992
• Azure Skies for Violin, Cello and Harp, 1993
• Just For Fun for chamber orchestra, 1994
• Connections for clarinet, cello and marimba, 1994
• Mariana for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano on texts by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1995
• Paula 's Song for String Quartet, 1996
• Two / Three for Piano, 1996
• Processional for Guitar, 1996
• Love Songs for soprano and flute on texts by Sara Teasdale, 1997
• At the Colour Café for Brass Choir, 1997
• Troubled Repose for flute, viola and double bass, 1998
• Obsessions for Cello and Piano, 1999
• Trial Balance for Double Bass, 1999
• Wilde 's World for tenor, viola and guitar by Oscar Wilde, 2000
• Continued Dialogue for horn, trombone and tuba, 2000
• From Sorrow for trumpet, horn and trombone, 2001
• Triple Threat for three trumpets, 2001
• Double Threat for two trumpets, 2002
• Alternating Currents for Bass Trombone and Piano, 2002
• Reconstructed Music for Violin, Cello and Piano, 2002
• Taming the Furies for Flute, 2003
• Of Wood and Skins for Perkussionsduo, 2003
• Translations for Violin and Cello, 2004
• Hymn of Compassionate Love for four soloists, mixed choir, trumpet, timpani and strings, 2005
• Pregnant Pauses for guitar quartet, 2005
• Left Behind for Horn and mezzo- soprano based on texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 2006
• Let's Play for String Quartet, 2007
• Two Bagatelles for Piano, 2007
• The Wings of Night for mezzo- soprano, baritone, mixed choir and guitar, 2008
• Memories and Alterations for marimba, 2008
• Danish Delights for soprano and guitar on texts by Sara Teasdale and Thomas Campion, 2009
• Edinboro Sonata for Tuba and Piano, 2009
• Interval Untamed: Five Miniatures for alto saxophone, 2010
• Manhattan fixation for soprano and mezzo- soprano or female choir and cello
• Two bagatelles for Marimba

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• American composer
• Music teacher
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• Born in 1947
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