Orianna Webb

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Orianna Webb (* in Akron / Ohio ) is an American composer, music teacher and pianist.

Webb played the piano and bassoon in her youth. She was a member of the school orchestra, played chamber music and composed for a rock group. She studied piano with Nicolas Constantinidis and Ethel Burke , bassoon with Georgia Peeples and composition with Martin Bresnick , Margaret at the University of Chicago (until 1997), the Cleveland Institute of Music (until 2001) and the Yale School of Music (until 2003) Brouwer , John Eaton , Joseph Schwantner and Roger Zahab . At the Schola Cantorum in Paris she studied composition with Samuel Adler and Philip Lasser . She taught u. a. Composition, orchestration, music theory and history at Yale School of Music and Yale College , Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and Case Western Reserve University . At CIM, she was one of the founders of the Young Composers Program .

Webb's compositions were a. a. performed by the Minnesota Orchestra , the Yale Philharmonia , the Bowling Green Philharmonia , the Ensemble Flexible Music , the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra , the Prism Players , and the Mostly Modern Chamber Music Society . She has received awards and commissions from the American Academy of Arts and Letters , the Fromm Foundation , ASCAP , the American Music Center , the International Alliance for Women in Music , the New York Youth Symphony, and others.

Works

  • Mirrored Spaces for guitar (2008 - with Daniel Lippel )
  • Lilt for horn and piano (2007)
  • Ways the Sky Meets the Sea for chamber orchestra (2005)
  • The Time Being for orchestra or chamber ensemble (2004)
  • Sustenance Variations for saxophone, guitar, percussion and piano (2004)
  • Piano Trio (2003)
  • Shadows Form for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2003)
  • Field for solo flute (2003)
  • String Trio (2002 - with Peter Gilbert )
  • Xylem for orchestra (2002)
  • Mosaic: Four Pieces for Bassoon and Piano (2001)
  • Three Studies for Trumpet, Trombone, and Piano (2001)
  • Apparitions for piano (2001)
  • For Jack for piano (2000)
  • Cantilena for Viola and Piano (2000)
  • Sequence Dreams: Five Bagatelles for Violin, Marimba, and Glass Instruments (1999/2000)

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personal data
SURNAME Webb, Orianna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Akron , Ohio