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Composers BureauSusan Cohn LackmanBiographySusan Cohn Lackman’s view of the world and of music was shaped from the beginning and her birth in Tsingtao, China, as daughter of a Naval officer. After a peripatetic childhood she attended Temple University, graduating cum laude with a B.Mus.Ed, having taken advanced courses in music theory and in English as well. While at Temple she studied with Natalie Hinderas (piano, her major instrument), Else Fink (voice), and Robert Page, and she sang with the Temple Concert Choir. She held the first teaching assistantship at American University, and, besides studying composition with Lloyd Ultan, she participated in the building of a new electronic music lab (Robert Moog sent components down to the university as he finished developing them); participated in master classes with Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, and T. J. Anderson; and developed educational activities for the new Wolf Trap Park. Her thesis was an electronic composition, with a “paper” score, a pioneering activity at the time. While a middle-school choir director Ms. Lackman began attending classes toward a Ph.D. in theory at the University of Maryland, studying with Lawrence Moss and Eugene Helm. After one year she moved to New Jersey where she began study at Rutgers University, where on assistantship she was given responsibility for first– and second-year theory courses. Her interests were not limited to music theory and composition (primary study with Robert Moevs), but also included musicology (study with George Bulow and Martin Picker); her dissertation was an opera based on Lysistrata to a self-penned libretto, and it was accompanied by research on and analysis of other settings of this same story, including those by Schubert, Gilbert and Sullivan, and several modern composers. The University chose to publish the compositions Dr. Lackman wrote during the three hours of her composition qualifying exams. Dr. Lackman started teaching at Rollins College in 1981, immediately after graduating from Rutgers. While at Rollins she has participated in College governance, designed several courses and a minor in arts management, as well as covering a full range of courses in the department, from freshman theory through graduate theory, courses on the role of the artist in society, Russian music, Jewish music, music in Vienna between 1750 and 1825, music criticism, freshman seminar, and arts management. She has several academic publications and presentations at scholarly societies to her credit. While a full-time professor Dr. Lackman served as director of music at the campus radio station 1984 – 2000, and was general manager from 1997 – 2000. In 2001 Dr. Lackman received her MBA degree with specialties in international business, management, and cyberlaw from the prestigious Crummer Graduate School of Business (ranked in Forbes). Additional activities include reviewing for the Orlando Sentinel, writing program notes for the Bach Festival and the Daytona Beach Symphony Society, and adjudicating at choral festivals. She studied with Ned Rorem and Lukas Foss as fellow at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. A symphony was premiered by the Florida Symphony Orchestra and performed throughout the state by other organizations; other smaller compositions have received hearings. She served as Treasurer and is board member for the International Alliance for Women in Music and as President of the Board of Trustees for the Orlando-based Festival of Orchestras. Dr. Lackman is currently working on several compositions and writing a counterpoint book. NewsDr. Lackman has been named as President of the Board of Trustees of the Orlando-based Festival of Orchestras, an organization that presents concerts by visiting international orchestras. She serves as Office Manager of the International Alliance for Women in Music; she was Treasurer of the IAWM through June 2004. Honors and Awards Temple University Honor Society; Fellow, Wolf Trap Composers Forum (1971); 1981 - 1982 Composition Grant, New Jersey Council on the Arts; Commission: Rollins/Florida Symphony Chamber Orchestra for orchestra work (1984); Fellow, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida (1984, 1990) Accepted, NEH - Summer Seminar, Princeton University (1984); Fellow, Atlantic Center for the Arts (1984, 1991); Grant for Composition of Brass Quintet, Rollins Research Council (1984); Sigma Alpha Iota Sword of Honor; Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honorary Society; Second Prize, Piano Composition, National League of American Pen Women (1990); Second Prize, Orchestra Composition, National League of American Pen Women (1990); Critchfield Grant for Composition (2001-2002); Ashforth Grant for Research (2003-2004), Critchfield Grant for Publication (2004-5). CitationsInternational Who's Who of Music and Musicians ; Women Composers Past and Present; World Who's Who of Women; International Encyclopaedia of Women Composers; Who's Who in American Music; Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century; Dictionary of International Biography; International Who's Who in Music; Directory of International Biography. Premieres
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Further InformationFor further information about Susan Cohn Lackman, please visit her website at fox.rollins.edu/~slackman/index.htm
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