Ruth Lomon

Ruth Lomon ( born November 7, 1930 in Montreal ) is a Canadian composer and pianist.

Solomon studied at the Conservatory of Montreal and McGill University. She continued her education at Frances Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music and Witold Lutoslawski at Dartington College in England continued.

From 1995 to 1996 she was a member of the Buntington Institute, where her most famous work was published, the song cycle Songs of Remembrance on poems about the Holocaust. The one-hour premiere was at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University, and was among others 1998 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington played. Solomon was given for the composition 1999 Miriam Gideon Composition Award and the 2001 Chicago Professional Musicians Award.

Since 1998 Lomon composer and Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. From Hadassah Research Institute have received a grant for research in the U.S. Holocaust Library on texts for their multilingual oratory Testimony of Witnesses. The work for soloists, chorus and orchestra was premiered in 1998. The Professional Music Teachers Association of New Mexico, she drew 2009 Composer of the Year from.

From 1979 to 1985 Lomon Vice President of the American Women Composers ( AWC). She is also Founding President of the Association of Massachusetts AWC. In 1984 she boarded position ended, together with the Tuft University, the first Conference of Women in Music in Massachusetts. From 1972 to 1985 she led with Iris Graffman Wenglin to as a piano duo works of contemporary, primarily female composers.

Works

  • Testimony of Witness for choir, chamber orchestra, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone according to Hebrew, Polish, French, German and English texts, 2007
  • After the Storm for choir a cappella on poems by Joyce Carol Oates, 2007
  • Regardisregard, art installation based on texts by George Elliott, 2005
  • Canticles for soprano and piano on poems by Marguerite Bouvard, 2004
  • Sweet Sixteen for Flute, 2003
  • Odyssey, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, 1997
  • Nocturnal Songs, song cycle for mezzo- soprano and harp after 8 haikus, 1997
  • 6 Songs of Remembrance, song cycle for soprano, mezzo- soprano, tenor and bass-baritone oboe / English horn and piano on texts by Nelly Sachs, Berthe Wizenberg Fleischer, Primo Levi, Eva Pickova, Miriam Merzbacher Blumenthal, Pavel Friedman, Francois Witter forest, and Charlotte Delbo, 1995
  • Shadowing, Piano Quartet, 1995
  • Terra Incognita for orchestra, 1993
  • Bassoon Concerto, 1979, 1992
  • Esquisses for piano, 1992
  • Many Moons for flute, oboe, trumpet, piano, synthesizer, violin, viola, cello, narrator and actor after James Thurber, 1990
  • Imprints, Concerto for piano and four percussionists, 1987
  • Spells for piano and chamber orchestra, 1985
  • A Fantasy Journey into the Mind for soprano saxophone and 1985
  • Metamorphosis for cello and piano, 1984
  • Janus, string quartet, 1984
  • Seven Portals of vision for Organ, 1982
  • Diptych, wind quintet, 1982
  • Five Ceremonial Masks for piano, 1980
  • Requiem for mixed choir, two trumpets and two trombones, 1977

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  • Canadian Composer
  • Classic pianist
  • University teachers ( Brandeis University)
  • Born in 1930
  • Woman
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