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| Joan Tower bio |
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| Joan Tower is Asher Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College. She has served as composer-in-residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's since 1997 and at the Deer Valley Festival in Utah since 1998, a title she also held for eight years at the Yale/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Among her recent premieres are DNA, a percussion quintet commissioned for Frank Epstein and the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, and her third string quartet, Incandescent, for the Emerson String Quartet. Other accolades include the 1998 Delaware Symphony's Alfred I. DuPont Award for Distinguished American Composer, the 2002 Annual Composer's Award from the Lancaster (PA) Symphony, and an Honorary Degree from the New England Conservatory (2006). |
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