Joan Tower

Joan Tower ( born September 6, 1938 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American composer, pianist and conductor.

Your music is rhythmically influenced by their time in Bolivia, where she lived since she was nine years old. As a young woman, she returned to the U.S. and studied at Bennington College in Vermont and at Columbia University. Her teachers were Otto Luening, Jack Beeson, and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

From 1969 she worked as a chamber musician and composer. Your first orchestral composition was Sequoia (1971). From 1972 taught Tower at Bard College Composition. Your works are performed worldwide.

Discography

  • TOWER: Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra Naxos 8.559328 No.
  • Chamber and Solo Music Naxos 8.559215 No. Chamber Music, Instrumental
  • Silver Ladders / Iceland Prelude / Sequoia Naxos Ranked FECD -0025
  • Cantos Desiertos / BEASER / TOWER / LIEBERMANN Naxos 8.559146 No.
  • WORLD PREMIERE COLLECTION Naxos Ranked FECD -0032
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