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Libby Larsen

Name: Libby Larsen
Bio: Libby Larsen (b. 24 December 1950, Wilmington, Delaware) is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over twelve operas. Grammy Award winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CD’s of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.

As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composer’s Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado Symphony.
Professional website: https://libbylarsen.com/
Scores: 4 1/2: A Piano Suite; 79 Fossil Gestures (of Antonio Alberto de Biedma); Alaska Spring; Ancient Places; And Another Thing; The Apple's Song; Bach 358; Barn Dances; Blue Piece; Blue Windows; A Brandenburg for the New Millennium; Brazen Overture; Buffalo Bill's; Center Field Girl; Concert Piece for Bassoon and Piano; Concertino for Tenor Steel Drum and Chamber Ensemble; Cri de Coeur; DDT; De toda la eternidad; Donal Oge; Double String Quartet: J.S.B.; Engelberg; Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round; Evening in the Palace of Reason; Fanfare for a Learned Man; Fanfare for Humanity; Ferlinghetti; Forget-Me-Not; Full Moon in the City; Gavel Patter; Ghosts of Old Pianos; Giving Thanks — A Native American Good Morning Message; He Arose: Fanfare for Easter; Hell's Belles; I Cried Unto God; In Such a Night; Lewis Carroll Songs; Like Blind Men Tapping in the Dark; Lullay of the Nativity; The Magdalene; Matinee: The Fantom of the Fair; Monk's Oboe; My Candle Burns; Now I Pull Silver; A Pig in the House; A Quiet Song; Raspberry Island Dreaming; Righty, 1966; Rodeo Queen of Heaven; Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke; Song Concerto; Sorrow Song and Jubilee; Stone Soup; The Strange Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes; String Quartet No. 4: Emergence; Three Love Songs; Turn, Turn; Wie Schön Leuchtet der Morgenstern