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Libby Larsen Biography
Libby Larsen was born in 1950 in Delaware, USA. During her childhood she was surrounded by what she herself calls an eclectic range of music, Broadway musicals, stride boogie piano, choral, and ballet. She studied composition at the University of Minnesota, and whilst there she and Stephen Paulus co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum (1973), a composers' advocacy group. Larsen's commitment to the wider issue of music in society has led her to activity on a national level: she serves on the boards of the American Symphony Orchestra League, Meet the Composer, and on the Camargo Foundation of Music Panel. She has been on the Music Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, Vice President of the American Music Center, and a director of the College Music Society. Success as a composer has lead to many residencies. She has spent time at the California Institute of the Arts, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, the Aspen Summer Institute, the Philadelphia School of the Arts, and the Cincinnati Conservatory.
Larsen has composed works in all areas. Among the impressive list of musicians who commissioned or premiered her works are Sir Neville Marriner, Eugenia Zukerman, The Cleveland Quartet, Arlene Augér, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, Benita Valente, the Ohio Ballet, the US Air Force Band, and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Recent works include Billy the Kid premiered by the King's Singers and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society in 1997; Square Play (a ballet) performed in Ohio in 1995; a large-scale work for speaker, mezzo-soprano, SATB chorus and ensemble called Eleanor Roosevelt and first performed in New York in 1996; Ring of Fire for orchestra premiered by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina in 1995; and Concert Dances for wind orchestra, premiered in Wisconsin-Madison, 1996.
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