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Composers BureauLibby LarsenBiography ( As one of the most active and successful composers working today, Libby Larsen has produced a substantial body of important works for orchestra, dance, opera, choral, chamber and solo performance. Recognized for "her subtle and sophisticated harmony, revealing an extraordinary capacity for combining seemingly dissimilar elements with great ease" her works are widely performed and recorded. Her Sonnets From the Portuguese is featured on the 1994 Grammy Award-winning CD, The Art of Arleen Auger. Larsen's opera, Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, includes being selected as one of the 8 best classical music events of 1990 by USA Today. Koch International will release an all-Larsen CD with the London Symphony Orchestra in August, 1997. Libby Larsen is also an articulate and influential advocate for the arts. In 1973 she co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum. She is an advisor to many musical organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, and the American Symphony Orchestra League. She has served as composer-in-residence with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Charlotte Symphony and is the newly appointed Composer-in Residence with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Among her awards are the National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowships, the American Council on the Arts Young Artist Award, a Bush Artists Fellowship, commissions from Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Lila Wallace Foundation, and commissions from the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Cleveland String Quartet, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Opera, Arkansas Opera Theater, Eugenia Zukerman, Arleen Auger, The Walker Art Center, the Plymouth Music Series and The Schubert Club of St. Paul. She has been Composer in Residence with the Minnesota Orchestra (1983-87), a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and California Institute of the Arts, as well as a guest lecturer at colleges and universities throughout the country, and is a Co-founder of the nationally acclaimed American Composers Forum.
Further Information For more information about Libby Larsen, please visit her website at www.libbylarsen.com
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b. Wilmington, Delaware, 1950)