Maura Bosch

Marjorie Ann Hess a.k.a. Maura Bosch (born 1958) is an American composer. She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Hartt College of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978, and at Princeton University where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 2008, after studying with Alexander Lepak, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt and Peter Westergaard.

Career

She married composer Jeffrey Brooks and lived for a while in Bath, England, where Brooks was composer-in-residence at Bath College. After returning to the United States, the couple settled in Minneapolis. Besides working as a performance artist and composer, Hess is a technical writer. She co-founded Corn Palace Productions, a Minneapolis music theatre company. She also founded and plays with the ensemble Blackstone Bosch.^[1]

In 2007 Maura Bosch was in residence with the Tubman Family Alliance, a network of shelters for abused women, to compose a work based on their experiences.^[2][3]

Works

Bosch has composed works in a variety of genres including choral, vocal and instrumental works and opera. Selected compositions include:

• The Disappearance of Luisa Porto, opera (1989)
• Mirabell’s Book of Numbers, opera (1991)
• The Damnation of Felicity, opera (1994)
• 3 Hymns (1995)
• My Purity (1995)
• Zelda Songs (1997)
• Bronte Songs (1996)
• The Oxen (1993)
• Santuario (1992) for orchestra
• About the Night (1993) for string quartet
• The Turning, cantata (2007)^[4]

Bosch has published a text:

• Everyone can compose music (2008) Princeton University

References

1. ^ "A Holiday Festival for Chorus and Harp". http://www.sflc.org/concerts/programs/harp_program.pdf. Retrieved 30 January 2011. 
2. ^ The Voice of Chorus America: Volume 30. Chorus America. 2006. 
3. ^ Sounding board: Volume 34, Issues 4-6. American Composers Forum. 2007. 
4. ^ "Cantus". http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=cantus&aview=acclaim&nid=1093. Retrieved 30 January 2011. 

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Name	Bosch, Maura
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Short description	Composer
Date of birth	1958
Place of birth	Reading, Pennsylvania
Date of death
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