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Comment: I can't judge whether this person is notable by our standards or not: the draft is just a resume in a single paragraph with a whole bunch of inline URLs (this is not OK). A quick glance at the references shows me a near-total lack of secondary sources. This is going to need a serious rewrite by someone who knows what a biography here should look like. Drmies (talk) 15:10, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Anna Weesner (b. 1965) is an American composer.
Biography edit
Anna Weesner was born in 1965. Her parents were both artists, her mother a piano teacher and her father a novelist.[1] She studied at Yale and Cornell with Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky. Her recent output includes a set of songs called My Mother in Love for which she wrote music and text, commissioned by Cygnus Ensemble. Recent chamber music includes The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground for clarinet quintet, commissioned and premiered by the Lark Quartet with Romie de Guise-Langlois, and Song-Shaped Absence in a Soundtracked World, commissioned by Mimi Stillman and Dolce Suono Ensemble. Winner of a 2020 Independence Foundation Grant,[2] the 2018 Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music[3] as well as an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is also the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship[4] and a 2003 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a 2023 Fromm Foundation commission. She has been in residence at MacDowell, the Virginia Center, Weekend of Chamber Music, Songfest, Seal Bay Festival, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and Civitella Ranieri. Her music has been performed widely, including by Tony Arnold, James Austin Smith, the Daedalus Quartet, the Lark Quartet, the Cypress Quartet, the Cassatt Quartet, Prism Saxophone Quartet, Dolce Suono Ensemble, Peggy Pearson and Winsor Music[5], Counter)Induction, Dawn Upshaw and Richard Goode, Eighth Blackbird, Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, the American Composers Orchestra and the Riverside Symphony, and has been featured at Tanglewood, the Look and Listen Festival, and the Portland Chamber Music Festival, among others. She was the 2019 Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Visiting Composer at the University of Utah,[6] and is the Dr. Robert Weiss Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania.[7]
Discography edit
Solo CD: My Mother in Love, Cygnus Ensemble with Tony Arnold, soprano; The Space Between, Daedalus Quartet, Personal Essay for oboe and strings; forthcoming 2024 on Bridge Records.[8]
Recording of Vamp, Prism Quartet, included on animal, vegetable, mineral, XAS Records, 2019.[9]
Recording: The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground, included on Lark Quartet, A Farewell Celebration, with Romie deGuise Langlois, clarinet, Bridge Records 9524, released September, 2019.[10]
Solo CD: Small and Mighty Forces: chamber works by Anna Weesner; TROY 1518 Albany Records, released Oct. 1, 2014.[11]
Recording: Possible Stories, Caroline Stinson, cello, included on Lines, released on Lines, TROY 1281 Albany Records, released in 2011.[12]
Recording: Flexible Parts, Melia Watras, viola, Kim Russ, piano, on Short Stories, Fleur de Son Classics, 2012.[13]
Recording: Distant Heart, for voice and piano, included on Innocence Lost: The Berg-Debussy Project, by Mary Nessinger and Jeanne Golan, TROY 1113 Albany records.[14]
Publication: Alter? when the hills do, The Art Song Collection, 1996 Edition, New American Voices Series, G. Schirmer.
Recording: Falling In, for chamber ensemble, included on CRI 899, Music of Our Time: Volume 5, Orchestra 2001, James Freeman, conductor, released 2002.[15]
References edit
- ^ "Opera Today : Anna Weesner: An interview by Tom Moore". www.operatoday.com. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Past Recipients: Arts Fellowships". Independence Foundation. 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Composer Anna Weesner wins Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Anna Weesner". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Interview with Anna Weesner". Winsor Music. 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "The Arts and U - @theU". attheu.utah.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Anna Weesner | Penn Arts & Sciences Endowed Professors". web.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ Music, The Roger Shapiro Fund for New (2018-10-26). "Anna Weesner's My Mother In Love". The Roger Shapiro Fund for New Music. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
- ^ "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral". PRISM Quartet. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Search: 1 result found for "anna weesner"". Bridge Records. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Albany Records: Small and Mighty Forces". www.albanyrecords.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Albany Records: Lines". www.albanyrecords.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Melia Watras, Viola - Fleur de Son Classics, Ltd". www.fleurdeson.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Albany Records: Innocence Lost". www.albanyrecords.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Music Of Our Time: Vol. 5". New World Records. Retrieved 2024-01-08.