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"Her music possesses power and strength as well as great warmth and imagination." (Gardner Read) "...one of the most inventive composers working in America today." (Washington Post) In recent years Dr. Vercoe has been a composer at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, the Cité International des Arts in Paris, and the St. Petersburg Spring Music Festival in Russia. In 2003 she held the Acuff Chair of Excellence at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee. She has written works on commission for the Pro Arte Orchestra, Wellesley College, the MTNA, and Austin Peay State University and has received grants from the Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, NEA, and Meet the Composer. She has collaborated with soloists and ensembles on performances in London, Paris, Boston, New York and San Francisco, including international festivals in Russia and Alaska and collaborative concerts of music and dance with the Beth Soll Dance Company. A native of Washington, D.C. and a graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Michigan, she earned a doctorate in composition at Boston University where she studied with Gardner Read. She teaches at Regis College and divides her time between Maine and Massachusetts. Her music is recorded on Owl, Capstone, Leonarda and Centaur compact discs, and is published by Arsis Press and Plucked String Editions. |
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Elizabeth Vercoe's principal works include the Herstory series of vocal works on texts by women, two staged monodramas, Despite our differences #2 for piano and chamber orchestra and Changes: A little music for Mozart for chamber orchestra.
Selected Works: Changes for orchestra (1991) Composer Facsimile Edition, 10 min. Despite our differences #2 for piano & chamber orchestra (1988) 10 min. Rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1977) 13 min. A la fin-tout seul for mandolin and optional piano (1985) Plucked String Editions, 7 min., CD (pending release) Despite our differences #1 for violin, cello & piano (1984) 13 min. Fantavia for flute & percussion (1982) Centaur CD, 10 min. [on N. American bird calls] Five Inventions for horn and piano (2005) 6 minutes Four Humors for clarinet & piano (1992) Centaur CD,12 min. Kleemation for flute and piano (2003) 14 min. [on 5 drawings by Paul Klee] Herstory I for soprano, piano & vibraphone (1975) 20 min. [on texts by American women poets] Herstory II: 13 Japanese Lyrics for sop, piano & perc (1979) Arsis Press & Capstone CD, 19 min. Herstory III: Jehanne de Lorraine for mezzo or soprano & piano (1986) Arsis Press & Owl CD, 25 min. Herstory IV for mezzo or soprano & mandolin or marimba (1997) 12 min. Irreveries from Sappho for mezzo or soprano & piano (1981) Arsis Press & Capstone CD, 7 min. Varieties of Amorous Experience for soprano & piano (1994) 15 min. Fantasy for piano (1975) Arsis Press & Capstone CD, 10 min. Parodia sopra "Lasciate mi morire" for harp (1983) 13 min. Sonaria for unaccompanied cello (1980) Arsis Press, 9 min To Music for solo flute (2003) 5 min. [on poetry by Anna Akhmatova] |
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