Judith Dvorkin

Judith Dvorkin (born 1930) is an American composer and librettist. She also uses the pseudonym Judy Spencer.[1][2] Dvorkin was born in New York and studied music at Barnard College with Otto Luening and at Columbia University with Luening and Elliot Carter. She continued her studies in seminars with Roger Sessions at the University of California at Berkeley.[3]

Works

Dvorkin is known for chamber opera and theater works, but also composes vocal and instrumental works. Selected works include:

Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

References

  1. ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900. 
  2. ^ Pool, J.G. (1979). America's Women Composers: Up from the Footnotes. 
  3. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. http://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=Judith+Dvorkin+opera&source=bl&ots=iHyxxPEqud&sig=A1tOA_FnDkkASJy5U45jEUohWLw&hl=en&ei=0O54TcScGdOG0QH9zvTVAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFsQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Judith%20Dvorkin%20opera&f=false. Retrieved 10 March 2011.