Nancy Van de Vate

Nancy Van de Vate (born December 30, 1930) is an American-born composer living in Austria.

Life and career

She was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and studied piano at Eastman School of Music and composition at the University of Mississippi and Florida State University. She later pursued further studies in electronic music at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire. She now teaches composition at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna.^[1] In 2010 the IES named her Composer-in-Residence.^[2]

She is also the founder of the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) in 1975, an international membership organization to create and expand opportunities for women composers of serious music. In 1995 the ILWC merged with two other women-in-music advocacy organizations to form the International Alliance for Women in Music.

Selected works

Opera

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Western Nichts Neues), premiered in Osnabrück in 2003, later by New York City Opera
• Where the Cross is Made (2005, winner of National Opera Association competition for chamber opera)

Orchestral

• Chernobyl (CD release, 1987)

Concertante

• Concerto for viola and orchestra (1990)

Chamber

• Music for Viola, Percussion and Piano (1976)
• 6 Etudes for solo viola (1969)
• Sonata for viola and piano (1964)
• Suite for solo viola (1975)
• String Quartet No. 2 (2005)
• Brass Quintet No. 2: Variations on the "Streets of Laredo" (2005)
• A Long Road Travelled, Suite for solo viola and string quartet (2007)

Further reading

• Laurdella Foulkes-Levy and Burt Levy, Journeys Through the Life and Music of Nancy Van de Vate (Scarecrow Press, 2004)

External links

• http://members.aon.at/~nvandeva/start_engl.html/

References

1. ^ http://www.esm.rochester.edu/news/?id=428
2. ^ http://operamusicbroadcast.com/2010/10/25/nancy-van-de-vate-named-as-composer-in-residence/

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