Barbara Kolb

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Barbara Kolb (born February 10, 1939 in Hartford / Connecticut ) is an American composer .

Kolb studied composition and clarinet at the Hartt College of Music at the University of Hartford with Lukas Foss and Gunther Schuller . She has won a number of grants and was the first woman to receive the American Rome Prize (1969–1971) for composition. A Fulbright scholarship enabled her to spend a year studying in Vienna.

From 1979 to 1982 she was Artistic Director of Contemporary Music at the Street Music School Settlement , where she hosted the Music New to New York concert series . 1982–1983 she spent nine months at IRCAM , composing the commissioned work Millefoglie for chamber ensemble and tape. After the premiere in Paris, the work was u. a. Performed in Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne, Dallas, Washington DC, Gelsenkirchen, Helsinki, Liège, Montreal and in 1996 at the Tokyo Summer Festival by the Tokyo Sinfonietta under Kunitaka Kokaji .

From 1984 to 1985 Kolb was visiting professor for composition at the Eastman School of Music . In the following year, with the support of the Library of Congress , she created a program to teach music theory to the blind and physically disabled. One of her most successful compositions was her Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra, which was premiered in 1992 by the Theater Chamber Players at the Kennedy Center .

On behalf of the Elisa Monte Dance Company , she composed New York Moonglow for saxophones, trumpet, strings and percussion, and composed sidebars , a duet for bassoon and piano , for bassoonist Stefano Canuti . Virgin Mother Creatrix for choir a cappella after Hildegard von Bingen was premiered at the International Festival of Women Composers at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Paul Giraudet: Barbara Kolb. February 26, 2003, accessed November 22, 2018 (French).
  2. ↑ Barbara Kolb: Information from Answers.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009 ; accessed on November 22, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Kolb: Biography. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford, Connecticut