Ruth Lomon
Ruth Lomon (born November 7, 1930 in Montreal , † September 26, 2017 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was a Canadian composer and pianist.
Lomon studied at the Montreal Conservatory and McGill University . She continued her studies with Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music and Witold Lutosławski at Dartington College in England.
From 1995 to 1996 she was a member of the Bunting Institute (Radcliffe / Harvard), where her most famous work appeared, the song cycle Songs of Remembrance based on poems about the Holocaust. The hour-long work premiered in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall at Harvard University and was among others. a. Played in 1998 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Lomon received the Miriam Gideon Composition Award in 1999 and the Chicago Professional Musicians Award in 2001 .
From 1998 Lomon was a composer and resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University . From Hadassah Research Institute , she received a scholarship for research in the US Holocaust Library on texts for their multilingual oratorio Testimony of Witnesses . The work for soloists, choir and orchestra was premiered in 1998. The Professional Music Teachers Association of New Mexico they recorded in 2009 as Composer of the Year from.
From 1979 to 1985, Lomon was Vice President of American Women Composers (AWC). She was also founding president of the Massachusetts Association of the AWC. In 1984 she co-hosted the first Women in Music conference in Massachusetts with Tufts University . From 1972 to 1985 she and Iris Graffman Wenglin performed works by contemporary, primarily female composers as a piano duo.
Works
- Testimony of Witness for choir, chamber orchestra, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone based on Hebrew, Polish, French, German and English texts, 2007
- After the Storm for a cappella choir based on poems by Joyce Carol Oates , 2007
- regardisregard , art installation based on texts by George Eliot , 2005
- Canticles for soprano and piano based on poems by Marguerite Bouvard , 2004
- Sweet Sixteen for flute, 2003
- Odyssey , Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, 1997
- Nocturnal Songs , song cycle for mezzo-soprano and harp based on 8 haikus , 1997
- 6 Songs of Remembrance , song cycle for soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and bass-baritone with oboe / english horn and piano based on texts by Nelly Sachs , Berthe Wizenberg Fleischer , Primo Levi , Eva Pickova , Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal , Pavel Friedman , Francois Witterwald , and Charlotte Delbo , 1995
- Shadowing , piano quartet, 1995
- Terra INcognita for orchestra, 1993
- Bassoon Concerto , 1979, 1992
- Esquisses for piano, 1992
- Many Moons for flute, oboe, trumpet, piano, synthesizer, violin, viola, cello, narrator and actor after James Thurber , 1990
- Imprints , concerto for piano and four percussionists, 1987
- Spells for piano and chamber orchestra, 1985
- A Fantasy Journey into the Mind for soprano and saxophone, 1985
- Metamorphosis for cello and piano, 1984
- Janus , string quartet, 1984
- Seven Portals of Vision for organ, 1982
- Diptych , wind quintet, 1982
- Five Ceremonial Masks for piano, 1980
- Requiem for mixed choir, two trumpets and two trombones, 1977
Web link
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- Vox Novus - Ruth Lomon
- Brandeis University - Women's Studies Research Center - Ruth Lomon ( Memento of March 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Brandeis University - Women's Studies Research Center - Curriculum vitae - Ruth Lomon
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lomon, Ruth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 26th September 2017 |
| Place of death | Cambridge , Massachusetts |