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Composers BureauMargaret BrouwerBiographyHead of the composition department and holder of the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, composer Margaret Brouwer's music has been hailed by The New York Times as "bewitching… with no obvious concessions toward styles of the day." Ms. Brouwer was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2004 for her "unusually impressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." She was also awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship for 2005. Past honors include grants from the NEA, Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Meet the Composer, Virginia Commission for the Arts, and the Indiana Arts Commission, as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Charles Ives Center for American Music. Many of the country's most distinguished ensembles in New York, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Cleveland regularly perform Ms. Brouwer's works. Her music has been programmed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; at Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall, and Symphony Space; by the Orchestra of St. Luke's on its "Second Helping" series' and by the Audubon, Cavani, and Cassatt String Quartets. In Washington, D.C., Ms. Brouwer's works have been heard at the Kennedy Center, the Corcoran Gallery, the Philips Gallery, and the Contemporary Music Forum. Recent highlights have included a November 2002 premiere of Ms. Brouwer's Concerto for Percussion by the celebrated percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz, a performance of Brouwer's Mandala by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony under the direction of Gunther Schuller, and a special commission in celebration of the Ohio Bicentennial premiered by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in February 2003. In 2003, a disc of Brouwer's "Light," was released by New World Records to wide acclaim. Fanfare magazine praised the new disc in the following terms: "Brouwer's music has a sense of stylistic independence and an openness of spirit… The melodies are memorable, their cut Brouwer's own; the instrumental writing is unique, sharp, and always expressive." (May/June 2004) Ms. Brouwer's music is published exclusively by Carl Fischer, and is recorded on the CRI, Crystal, Centaur, New World Records, and Opus One labels. Further Information For more information about Margaret Brouwer, please visit her website at www.brouwermusic.com
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