Elinor Armer

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Elinor Armer (born 6 October 1939) is an American pianist, music educator and composer.

Biography

Elinor Armer was born in Oakland, California. She studied music under Darius Milhaud and Leon Kirchner for composition and Alexander Libermann for piano. She attended Mills College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1961, the University of California, Berkeley from 1966 to 1968, and California State University, San Francisco, where she received a Master of Arts degree in 1972. She teaches composition and chairs the department at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and has performed and lectured throughout the United States. She helped co-found the organization Composers, Inc. Her papers are housed at UC Berkeley Music Library.[1][2]

Awards and honors

  • The Norman Fromm Composer's Award
  • Fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, the Chamber Music Conference/Composer's Forum of the East, Yaddo, and the Djerassi Foundation
  • The Gerbode Foundation New Music Composition Award (1991)[3]

Works

Armer has produced a collaborative multi-part fantasy series with author Ursula K. Le Guin called Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts which has been recorded on the Koch International Label.[3]

Discography

  • Music of Darius Milhaud (2004) - Audio CD by Parallele Ensemble;Elinor Armer, Darius Milhaud, Nicole Paiement, Parallele Ensemble, et al., Kleos Classics
  • Armer: Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts/Falletta (2 CDs) (1995) - Audio CD by Elinor Armer, JoAnn Falletta, Women's Philharmonic, San Francisco Girl's Chorus, et al., Koch Int'l Classics
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano, Opus 11, Works for Cello and Piano (2000) - Audio CD by Paul Hindemith, Elinor Armer, Seymour Shifrin, Paul Turok, et al., Music & Arts Program

References

  1. ↑ "Inventory of the Compositions of Elinor Armer, 1955-1995". Retrieved 12 October 2010. 
  2. ↑ Pendle, Karin (1997). American Women Composers, Volume 16, Parts 1-2. Retrieved 11 November 2010. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Elinor Armer". Retrieved 12 October 2010. 

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