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Judith Lang Zaimont’s music is internationally acclaimed for its expressive strength and dynamism.
Many of her 100 works are prize-winning compositions; these include three symphonies, chamber opera, music for wind ensemble, oratorios and cantatas and other works for chorus, compositions for voice, solo instruments and a wide variety of chamber music. Her composition awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, commission grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and American Composers Forum, a 2003 Aaron Copland Award and 2005 Bush Foundation Fellowship.
Zaimont’s music is frequently played in the United States and abroad and has been programmed by ensembles such as the Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Mississippi symphony orchestras, the Berlin Radio Orchestra (Germany), Czech Radio Orchestra (Prague), Kremlin Chamber Orchestra (Moscow, Russia), Kharkov Philharmonic (Ukraine), and the Women's Philharmonic (CA). Her works are widely published and recorded, extensively researched (the subject of 15 doctoral papers to date), have served as competition repertoire for international piano (Cliburn; San Antonio) and conducting competitions (Jordania), and two are cited on the Century Lists of Piano International and Chamber Music America.
Zaimont’s own research and writings on music have dual concentrations. Her essays and speeches probe questions of professionalism and artistic survival for American concert-music composers of the current era; they have appeared in journals of The College Music Society, International Alliance for Women in Music and the American Music Center’s online magazine, NewMusicBox. And her decades-long concerns for increased visibility, as well as elevation in prominence, for women composers of the past and of the present produced articles, speeches, and the four Greenwood Press books whose concepts she created and for which she served as editor-in-chief. These are Contemporary Concert Music by Women and the three volumes of The Musical Woman: An International Perspective (for which she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from which Volume III received First Prize in the Pauline Alderman musicology awards) .
After a distinguished career as an educator (Peabody Conservatory, CUNY, Adelphi University and the University of Minnesota), she and her husband, painter Gary Zaimont, moved to the greater Phoenix area, and she is now concentrating fully on composing.
For complete Information and Lists of Recordings and Printed Music see
www.jzaimont.com
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