Shulamit Ran

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Shulamit Ran (שולמית רן or Šûlammît Ran ; born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli - American composer and music teacher.

As a child, Ran composed songs based on Hebrew texts. She studied piano and composition in Israel with Alexander U. Boskovich and Paul Ben-Haim . As a scholarship holder of the Mannes College of Music and the America Israel Cultural Foundation , she continued her education in the USA with Nadia Reisenberg , Norman Dello Joio and later with Dorothy Taubman . From 1973 she taught at the University of Chicago , where she is now Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor and Artistic Director of the Contemporary Chamber Players .

In 1990 she brought Daniel Barenboim to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as composer in residence , and from 1994 to 1997 she worked in the same capacity at the Lyric Opera of Chicago . Ran has received prizes, grants, and composition commissions a. a. from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund , the Ford Foundation , the National Endowment for the Arts , the Guggenheim Foundation , the Fromm Music Foundation , the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation , the Eastman School of Music , the American Composers Orchestra (Concerto for Orchestra), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Concerto da Camera II), the Philadelphia Orchestra (Symphony), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Legends) and the Baltimore Symphony (Vessels of Courage and Hope). In 1991 she received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her symphony . In 1992 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2003 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Her opera Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk) , a commission from the Lyric Opera of Chicago , premiered in 1997 and had its European premiere in 1999 at the Bielefeld Theater .

Works

  • Sonatina for two flutes (1961)
  • Hatzvi Israel , Eulogy for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp and string quartet (1969)
  • Concert Piece for piano and orchestra (1970)
  • Three Fantasy Pieces for cello and piano (1971)
  • Ensembles for 17 for soprano and instrumental ensemble (1975)
  • Hyperbolae for piano (1976)
  • Apprehensions for voice, clarinet and piano (1979)
  • For an Actor Monologue for Clarinet (1978)
  • Private Game for clarinet and cello (1979)
  • Verticals for piano (1982)
  • Sonata Waltz for piano (1983)
  • Fantasy Variations for cello solo (1979, rev. 1984)
  • Fanfare for Two Multi-Tracked Sopranos (1981)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1984)
  • Concerto da Camera I for wind quintet (1985)
  • Adonai Malach (Psalm 93) (1985)
  • Amichai Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Instruments (1985)
  • Concerto for orchestra (1986)
  • Concerto da Camera II for clarinet, string quartet and piano (1987)
  • East Wind for flute (1987)
  • String Quartet No. 2 "Vistas" (1989)
  • Symphony (1989-90)
  • Mirage for five players (1990)
  • Chicago Skyline for wind instruments and percussion (1991)
  • Inscriptions for violin (1991)
  • Legends for orchestra (1992–93, rev. 2001)
  • Invocation for horn, timpani and glockenspiel (1994)
  • Yearning for violin and string orchestra (1995)
  • Soliloquy for violin, cello and piano (1997)
  • Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk) , opera (1997)
  • Vessels of Courage and Hope for orchestra (1998)
  • Three Scenes for clarinet (2000)
  • Voices for a flutist and orchestra (2000)
  • Bach Shards for string quartet (2002)
  • Violin Concerto (2002-03)
  • Concerto da Camera III (Under the Sun's Gaze) (2003-2004)
  • Under the Sun's Gaze (Concerto da Camera III) (2003-2004)
  • Shirim L'Yom Tov (Four Festive Songs) for a cappella choir (2003 and 2005)
  • Ha'llel for organ (2005)
  • Fault Line for Ensemble (2005-06)
  • Credo / Ani Ma'amin (2006)
  • Song and Dance Duo for saxophone and percussion (2007)
  • Show Goes On, The (Ha'hatzaga Nimshechet) Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (2008)
  • Lyre of Orpheus for string sextet and cello solo (2009)
  • Silent Voices for fourteen musicians and readers (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ran, Shulamit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ran, Šûlammît
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv