Judith Lang Zaimont

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Judith Lang Zaimont (born November 8, 1945 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American composer .

Life

From 1958 to 1964 she studied piano at the Juilliard School with Rosina Lhévinne and formed a piano duo with her sister Doris at an early age, which made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963 . From 1961 she also studied composition - at Queens College with Hugo Weisgall and from 1965 at Columbia University with Otto Luening and Jack Beeson . In 1971/72 she completed her studies with André Jolivet in Paris. As a composer she received numerous prizes, including a. A Guggenheim grant in 1983 , the Aaron Copland Award in 2003 and the Bush Artist Fellowship Award in 2005 . She taught at Queens College (1972–1977), Johns Hopkins University (1980–1987), Adelphi University (1988–1991) and as a professor at the University of Minnesota (1991–2005).

Her compositional work includes an opera, four symphonies, orchestral, choral, chamber and piano music. Her 4th Symphony Pure, Cool (Water) , composed in 2013, received an award from the Sorel Organization . Her stylistic roots lie primarily in French Impressionism and early American modernism.

Fonts

  • Judith Lang Zaimont: The Musical Woman: An International Perspective . tape 1-3 . Greenwood Press, 1991, ISSN  0737-0032 .

literature

  • Antje Olivier, Karin Weingartz-Peschel: Lang Zaimont, Judith . In: composers from A to Z . Tokkata, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-9801603-0-0 , p. 183 .

Discography

  • Florilegium Chamber Choir, JoAnn Rice (Conductor): Serenade: To Music und Parable (1988)
  • Ruth Schönthal (Piano): Character Sketches: Solo Piano Works by 7 American Women (1995)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Born as Judith Lang, she called herself - after marrying the painter Gary Zaimont - Judith Lang Zaimont. It can therefore also be found under the letter "L" in individual lexicons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hon-Lun Yang:  Zaimont, Judith. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 17 (Vina - Zykan). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ a b Detailed biography on the composer's website
  3. ↑ Susan Cohn Lackman: Judith Lang Zaimont: Part I, Profiles . In: Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music . tape 19 , no. 2 , 2013, ISSN  1082-1872 , p. 1–3 ( rollins.edu [accessed July 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Information in the Milken Archive of Jewish Music
  5. ^ Guggenheim Fellowship
  6. ↑ Bush Artist Fellowship Award 2005
  7. ↑ Catalog raisonné
  8. ^ Prize for the 4th symphony
personal data
SURNAME Zaimont, Judith Lang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis