Daria Semegen

Daria Semegen

Daria Semegen (born June 27, 1946) is an important contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments — her Jeux des quatres (1970), for example, is scored for clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano — she is best known as a "respected electronic composer."[1] She is a figure on the academic side of the electronic music genre, connected with the conservatory and the university (like her older contemporary Karlheinz Stockhausen), rather than the more popular expression of the genre that followed upon the widespread availability of synthesizers and personal computers in the 1970s and after.

Born in Bamberg, West Germany of Ukrainian heritage, Semegen pursued an academic career in music, earning her MA from Yale University in 1971; she has studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Institute of Technology. She taught at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (1971–75). She studied composition under Bülent Arel[1] and Alexander Goehr, and in turn has taught other composers, including Joseph DiPonio, Daniel Koontz, Gilda Lyons and Philip Schuessler. Her writing covers a range of topics related to musical composition and has been the subject of studies by other scholars.

In a distinguished academic career in a field still heavily dominated by men, Semegen has received six grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; has been selected as a Fullbright Fellow; and has been awarded fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Tanglewood, the Chautauqua Institution, and Yaddo — among a range of other awards and distinctions. She is currently Associate professor of Composition, Theory, and Electronic Music Composition at Stony Brook University, and is Director of its Electronic Music Studio.

Her best-known piece is probably Electronic Composition No. 1 (1971).

References

  1. ^ "America's Women Composers: Up from the Footnotes". Author(s): Jeannie G. Pool. Source: Music Educators Journal, Vol. 65, No. 5, (Jan., 1979), pp. 28-41. Published by: MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3395571. Accessed: 27 June 2008 16:44.

Further reading

  • Hinkle-Turner, A.E. "Daria Semegen: A Study of the Composer's Life, Work, and Music." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois — Urbana.
  • Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth. Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line, Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
  • Johnson, Rose-Marie. Violin Music by Women Composers: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1989.
  • Lerner, Ellen D. and David Wright. 'Daria Semegen', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 26 October 2006), <http://www.grovemusic.com>
  • Semegen, Daria. "Art-tickle: points to ponder." Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 32, No.1.
  • Simoni, Mary. Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia, Greenwood Press, 2002.

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