Joyce Mekeel

Joyce Mekeel ( born July 6, 1931 in New Haven / Connecticut; † 29 December 1997 Watertown / Massachusetts) was an American composer, harpsichordist and music teacher.

Mekeel attended from 1952 to 1955, the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. She studied then from 1955 to 1957 at the Paris Conservatory with Nadia Boulanger received his degree of Bachelor (1959 ) and Master ( 1960 in music theory and composition at Yale University and a Ph.D. from Boston University (1983)). Her teachers included Earl Kim (composition), Ralph Kirkpatrick and Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord ) and David Kraehenbuehl (music theory).

From 1960 to 1964 Mekeel gave private piano lessons in Princeton, from 1967 to 1970 she taught at the New England Conservatory of Music, after which it was until the mid- 1990s, Professor of Composition and Music Theory and Director of the Studio for Electronic Music of Boston University. She received the Ingram Merrill Award for Composition (1964 ), the Sigma Alpha Iota Inter- American Music Award ( 1965), the price of the Radcliffe Institute ( 1968-1970 ) and the price of the National Endowment for the Arts (1975) in addition, she was awarded the MacDowell Colony in study visits (1963, 1964 and 1974) and at Yaddo (1974).

Commissions received, inter alia, Mekeel by the Boston Musica Viva, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Louisville Orchestra and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. Characteristic of her composition was the unconventional use of conventional instruments / instrumentalists and singers. So she let singer, shouting, gesticulating and declaiming and instrumentalists walking around, whisper or sing.

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• Harvard University Library - Mekeel, Joyce. Collection of musical scores, 1961-1996: Guide
• Engaging News - Joyce Mekeel

• American composer
• Harpsichordist
• Music teacher
• Born in 1931
• Died in 1997
• Woman