Judith Lang Zaimont
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Judith Lang Zaimont (b. 1945) is internationally recognized for her distinctive style, characterized by its expressive strength and dynamism. Her 100 works include three symphonies, chamber opera, oratorios and cantatas, music for wind ensemble, vocal-chamber pieces with varying accompanying ensembles, a wide variety of chamber works, and solo music for string and wind instruments, piano, organ, and voice.
Among orchestras that have performed and/or commissioned works are the Baltimore, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Greenville (SC), Madison (WI), Harrisburg (PA), East Texas. and Nassau (NY) symphonies, the Women's Philharmonic (CA), the Berlin Radio Orchestra (Germany), Czech Radio Orchestra (Prague), the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra (Moscow, Russia), Kharkov Philharmonic (Ukraine), Pro Arte Chamber Orchestras (NY and Boston), and others.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in a musical family in New York, Zaimont holds degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York and Columbia University. She studied composition with Hugo Weisgall, Otto Luening and Jack Beeson. After receiving her Master's Degree, Zaimont studied orchestration in Paris with André Jolivet on a Debussy Fellowship from the Alliance Française de New York. She currently resides in the Minneapolis area with her husband and son.
Among her composition awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983-84); Maryland State Arts Council creative fellowship (1986-87); commission grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1982) and American Composers Forum (1993); and grants to support recordings from the Aaron Copland Fund (American Music Center: 1995, 2002) and Ditson Fund (Columbia University: 2002).
Formerly a member of the faculties of Queens College and Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she was named "Teacher of the Year" in 1985, Zaimont is a distinguished teacher, and held the post of Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Adelphi University from 1989-91. Since 1992 she has been Professor of Composition at the University of Minnesota School of Music. Zaimont is also the founder and co-director of the New York-based performing ensemble, AMERICAN ACCENT, and creator and editor-in-chief of the critically acclaimed book series, The Musical Woman: An International Perspective (3 vols., Greenwood Press). For the books, she received a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1989), and the 1993 First Prize in the international musicology awards, the Pauline Alderman Prizes. She recently was elected to a second term on the advisory board of the International Alliance for Women in Music (2004-2007) and to be National Board Member for Composition for the College Music Society (2003-2005).
Major Works
Chroma: Northern Lights (1986) - 1-1-1-1; 1-0-0-0; perc; strings (11') Publisher - Sounds Alive!
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1972) piano solo; 3-3-3-3; 4-2-3-1; timp-perc; strings (32') Publisher: Fleisher Collection
ELEGY for Symphonic Strings (1998) - Publisher: Sounds Alive!
Monarchs: Movement for Orchestra (1988) - pic-2-2-Eng hn-Eb cl-2-b cl-2; 4-3-3-1; 4 perc-piano; strings (15') Publisher - Sounds Alive!
REMEMBER ME: Symphony No. 2 for Symphonic Strings (2000) Publisher: Sounds Alive
STILLNESS - Tone Poem for Orchestra (2005) 2-2-2-2 ( with standing auxiliaries) // 4-2-2-1 // hrp // tymp. + 1 perc // stgs
Symphony No. 1 (1994) 3-3-3-3; 4-3-3-1; harp; piano; 4 perc; strings (28') Publisher - Sounds Alive!
Tarantelle (1985) 2pic-2-2-Eng hn-2-2; 4-2-3-1; 3 perc; strings (7') Publisher : Galaxy Music Corporation (E.C. Schirmer)
Sacred Service for the Sabbath Evening (1976) - baritone (or alto) solo; chorus SSATB; 2(pic)-2 (Eng hn)-2-2; 2--2-2-0; timp-piano; strings (72') Publisher: Galaxy Music Corporation (E.C. Schirmer)
Man's Image and His Cry (1968) baritone and alto soli; chorus SSATB; 2-2-2-2; 2-2-2-0; perc; strings (20') Publisher : AMC
