Joyce Mekeel

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Joyce Mekeel (born July 6, 1931 in New Haven / Connecticut , † December 29, 1997 in Watertown / Massachusetts ) was an American composer, harpsichordist and music teacher.

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Joyce Mekeel attended the Longy School of Music in Cambridge from 1952 to 1955 . She then studied from 1955 to 1957 at the Paris Conservatory with Nadia Boulanger , where she earned a Bachelor's (1959) and Master's (1960 in music theory and composition from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Boston University (1983)) degrees . Her teachers included Earl Kim (composition), Ralph Kirkpatrick and Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) and David Kraehenbuehl (music theory).

From 1960 to 1964 Mekeel gave private piano lessons at Princeton, from 1967 to 1970 she taught at the New England Conservatory of Music , after which she was Professor of Composition and Music Theory and Head of the Electronic Music Studio at Boston University until the mid-1990s . She received the Ingram Merrill Prize for Composition (1964), the Sigma Alpha Iota Inter-American Music Award (1965), the Radcliffe Institute Prize (1968-1970), and the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (1975), She was also awarded with study visits to the MacDowell Colony (1963, 1964 and 1974) and in Yaddo (1974).

Mekeel u. a. from the Boston Musica Viva , the Massachusetts Cultural Council , the Louisville Orchestra, and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University . The unconventional use of conventional instruments / instrumentalists and singers was characteristic of their composition. So she let singers scream, gesticulate or declaim and instrumentalists run around, whisper or sing.

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