Cindy McTee

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Cindy Karen McTee-Slatkin (born February 20, 1953 in Tacoma ) is an American composer and music teacher .

Life

Cindy McTee began taking piano lessons at the age of six; from her mother she also learned saxophone and transposition . She later studied music at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. There she met Krzysztof Penderecki in 1974 , who invited her to study with him at the Krakow Conservatory . McTee taught his family English, in return they learned orchestration , modern composition techniques and counterpoint from him . She then studied at the Yale School of Music with Jacob Druckman and at the University of Iowa , where she received a Doctor of Musical Arts in 1981 . She taught at Pacific Lutheran University for three years before moving to the University of North Texas , where she was Professor of Composition from 1984 until her retirement in 2010. From 1995 to 2000 she was also chairman of the composition department.

McTee has been married to the conductor Leonard Slatkin since 2011 .

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McTee is active both in the field of symphonic music and as a composer for wind orchestras and chamber music , where she also incorporates elements of electronic music . She often finds her inspiration in visual and literary templates. For music critic Charles Ward, McTee's music represents the "charged and stirring celebration of the musical and cultural energy of modern America."

Symphony orchestra

  • 2000 timepiece
  • 2002 Symphony No. 1 “Ballet for Orchestra”
  • 2004 Einstein's Dream
  • 2010 double play

Wind band

  • 1990 Circuits
  • 1993 California Counterpoint "The Twittering Machine"
  • 1995 soundings
  • 2003 Ballet for Band
  • 2010 double play for wind orchestra
  • Finish line

Chamber music

  • 1988 Circle Music III for bassoon and piano
  • 1991 M Music for saxophone and computer-generated tape recording
  • 2004 fanfare for trumpets
  • Stepping out for flute and percussion

Awards

In 1992 and 2002 McTee received the Arts and Letters Award in Music and the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 2001 McTee was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Composition. In 2009, McTee won the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers , which included a world premiere of her work Double Play .

Recordings (selection)

  • Reicha, McTee, Gillingham, Ives, Gould (1992 Piano Records, KCD 11042), Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony, Eugene Corporon (conductor).
  • Encryptions (2012, GIA Publications, CD-872), North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Corporon (conductor).
  • Cindy McTee (2013, Naxos, 8.559765), Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cindy McTee. Naxos Records website, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Mandi LeCompte: Celebrated composer and PLU alumna Cindy McTee visits campus. Pacific Lutheran University website, March 21, 2017, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ Two UNT professors win Texas Composers Competition. UNT website, August 24, 2010, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  4. ^ Emeritus Faculty. UNT website, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Elaine Lebeonbom Competition: Award Winners. DSO website, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Awards. American Academy of Arts and Letters website, accessed July 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Cindy McTee. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation website, accessed July 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME McTee, Cindy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McTee-Slatkin, Cindy Karen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacoma