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Composers BureauGloria CoatesBiography
Music on Open Strings (Symphony No.1), written in 1973, was first performed at the 1978 Warsaw Autumn Festival: proved to be the most widely discussed work on that Festival. It was a finalist for the KIRA International Koussevitzski Award in 1986 as one of the most important compositions to appear on record that year, and was the first orchestral work by a woman composer in the 35 years of Musica Viva-Munich in 1978. Her music has subsequently been heard at the Dresden Festival, New Music America - New York 1989, the Passau International Festival, the Dartington Festival in England, the Montepulciano Festival Italy, the New York Microtonal Festival, Aspeckte Festival Salzburg, and in 2004 March Music -the Berlin Festival. Gloria Coates has been invited to lecture on her music with concerts at Harvard University, Brown, Princeton, the University of Wisconsin Madison (with master classes), Torun, Poland, the College of Music Munich, and in India at the Max Mueller Bavahns of New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay. Her music has been produced by the BBC London, Radio Canada, US Public Radio, Radio Warsaw, Radio Johannesburg, S.A., the German Radio Stations, besides being broadcast over China, Hungary, France, Belgium, Italy, and Japan. From 1975 to 1983 she taught for the University of Wisconsin's International Programs and initiated the music program in London and Munich. While maintaining a residence in the United States, Gloria Coates has lived since 1969 in Europe, where she has been an active champion of American music. She has lectured, written musicological articles, produced and broadcasted radio programs on the Cologne WDR Radio, Radio Bremen and the Bavarian Radio. From 1971 to 1984 she produced a concert series of German-American music in Munich subsidized by the Munich Ministry of Culture and the Alice Ditson Fund of Columbia University. On this series she was the first in Germany to regularly perform women's music. Born in Wausau, Wisconsin, Gloria Coates began composing at an early age, winning a National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Contest at age 12. At this time she was improvising on the piano with clusters, unusual dissonances and overtones. Several years later it was Alexander Tcherepnin who became her mentor, encouraging her in her composing until his death in 1977. After earning a Masters of Music Composition degree at Louisiana State University, she continued postgraduate studies in composition at Columbia University with Otto Luening and Jack Beeson. She has been the recipient of many awards, commissions and distinctions. Gloria Coates' canon of work includes compositions for orchestra, with 14 symphonies, chamber music of which there are 8 string quartets, solo pieces, vocal and choral music for orchestra and ensembles, electronic works, as well as music for the theatre."unprecedented, ground breaking musical territory ...iridescent beauty" - Scala, 2/1999 CDsBayer, BIS, Troubadisc, Musicaphon, ProViva, Cavalli (2), CPO (2), Naxos (3), and New World Records Further Information New Groves Dictionary, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, MGG (Musik Geschichte und Gegenwart,) Komponisten der Gegenwart (loose leaf). Contact InformationGloria Coates |
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The music of Gloria Coates has been performed by leading soloists and ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, the Kreuzer Quartet, Crash Ensemble Dublin, New Century Chamber Orchestra - San Francisco, London Sinfonia, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Orchestra, to name several.