Laura Piperno Koplewitz- Composer's Brief Bio.
Laura Piperno Koplewitz was born in Spokane, Washington and has lived in New
York City and Vermont. Her family is of Romanian / Polish and Italian heritage, with
three generations in the United States. She studied composition privately with Joan
Tower and Stefania de Kenessey, and with Thea Musgrave and David del Tredici at
the C.U.N.Y/ Graduate Center on a fellowship in the Ph.D. program in music
composition. In 2006 she was selected as one of four fellows for master classes with
composer Yehudi Wyner (Pulitzer Prize winner, 2006) at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts. Mentors include composer Alex Shapiro , composer, vocalist, and jazz violinist
Theresa Jenoure, and classical guitar soloist Sharon Isbin.
Laura Koplewitz has been commissioned by Jaime Laredo (Vermont Symphony
Orchestra); the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble; and has written works
including a violin concerto for Joanna Kurkowicz concertmaster of the Boston
Philharmonic, among other composing projects.
The composer has frequently been an artist-in-residence at the Virginia Center for
the Arts. In 2007 she has received a "Creation Grant" from the Vermont State Arts
Council for orchestral writing. Recent composing in 2007 includes a string quintet
written for Joanna Kurkowicz and the Parker String Quartet, premiere scheduled for
January 20th, 2007 at Harvard University.
Upcoming projects include the composition of a piano concerto for Russian-Italian
piano virtuoso Tatiana Pavlova in 2007 and a series of chamber works for a 2007-
2008 recording project. These new works will be based upon a 2-CD set of piano
pieces improvised to paintings, performed by the composer, entitled "Slow Motion
Palette."
The composer enjoys collaborative arts projects. She has worked with visual artist
Grimanesa Amoros on art installations in New York City and Lima, Peru. With poet
Shana Deets the composer collaborated on sound-text installations presented at
Carnegie-Mellon University.
New collaborative projects for 2007 also include curatorship of a concert series at
the National Museum of Women in the Arts, including women composers writing new
works to the paintings in the NMWA's permanent collection. This series is anticipated
to begin in 2008- 2009.
To contact the composer for commissions, collaborations, music licensing, concert
series patronage, or to say hello- please email:
lkcomposer@yahoo.com
Laura Koplewitz, BMI.
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This site contains original music composed by Laura Koplewitz.
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For scores and permissions for use, please contact the composer.
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