Mary Ann Joyce-Walter

Mary Ann Joyce-Walter (* 1937 in Champaign-Urbana / Illinois ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Joyce studied at Fontbonne University and Washington University in St. Louis . Her teachers included Robert Wykes , Rosalyn Tureck , Paul Pisk, and Robert Baker . After completing her studies, she went to New York in 1974, where she worked as a professor of music at Manhattanville College .

Her main focus as a composer is in the field of vocal music. She received first prize at the Boston Art Song Competition and an ASCAPlus Award between 1999 and 2006 . Her compositions have been performed in the USA and at festivals in Europe and Russia. Joyce is u. a. Member of the International Alliance of Women Composers and Treasurer of the New York Women Composers .

Works

• Spring and Fall based on a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Note to Amadeus based on a poem by Joan Rudel for soprano and piano
• Butterfly's Child based on a poem by Joan Rudel for soprano and piano
• Nothing Is So Beautiful As Spring based on a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins for baritone and piano
• Prelude for solo flute
• In Anguish And In Hope: A Psalm For Today
• Gothic Fantasy for piano
• Winter Weather Advisory based on a poem by Ann Silsbee for soprano and piano
• A Famine Sequence based on poems by Desmond Egan for mixed choir, soloists, piano, flute and harp
• The Panther based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke for tenor, piano and cello
• A Portrait of Dorothy Day , cantata based on a libretto by Donna Gaspardi for small instrumental ensemble and voices
• Three pieces for guitar
• Binsey Poplars and The Windhover , poems by GM Hopkins for mixed choir
• Pied Beauty based on a poem by GM Hopkins. other
• By the Waters of Babylon , psalm for female choir
• Scherzato piano
• Epithalamion based on poems by GM Hopkins for small orchestra, boys' choir, mixed choir and dancers
• The Crucifixion after a medieval Irish text for soprano and piano
• O Come With Me for soprano and piano
• The Little Vagabond for soprano and piano
• Only For So Short Awhile for mixed choir, piano and percussion
• Sic Transit Gloria for eight-part choir
• Impressions: Oviedo for guitar
• Aceldama for string orchestra and flute
• The Windhover
• The Caged Skylark
• I Am Ireland based on texts by Irish writers of the 20th century
• Set Me As A Seal Upon Your Heart
• Fragments for Guitar
• Variations for Piano
• Cantata for the Children of Terezin based on poems by children from the Theresienstadt concentration camp for orchestra, mixed choir and children's choir
• A Portrait of Dorothy Day based on a libretto by Donna Gaspardi for instrumental ensemble and voices
• Introibo for mixed choir and wind quintet
• Lullaby
• O, come with me
• Girl With Cello based on a poem by May Sarton
• Let Me Be to Thee based on a poem by GM Hopkins
• Scherzato for piano
• Intrada for wind quintet
• A Christmas Carol , musical based on Charles Dickens
• Patience for mixed choir
• The Eagle based on a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson for baritone and piano
• The Burial based on a poem by James McKenna for baritone and piano
• Three Love Songs based on a poem by Sarah Teasdale for soprano and piano
• Passio et Mors for orchestra and double choir
• Mass of the Transfiguration
• Stonehenge: Fragments
• Tenebrae Factae Sunt for mixed choir a cappella
• In Anguish and in Hope based on a poem by Ann Silsbee
• A Summer Fantasy for string orchestra and flute

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• New York Woman Composers - Mary Ann Joyce-Walter
• Manhattanville College - Mary Ann Joyce-Walter
• Vox Novus - Mary Ann Joyce