Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Michelle Ekizian

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Michelle Ekizian


Role
  
Composer

Education
  
Columbia University (1988), Manhattan School of Music

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Michelle Ekizian (born November 21, 1956) is an American composer of Armenian heritage.

Contents

Life

Michelle Ekizian was born in Bronxville, New York. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a master's degree from Columbia University, having studied with Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky, Nicolas Flagello and Vladimir Ussachevsky. Her music has been performed internationally.

Honors and awards

  • American Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome, 1988
  • Commerce Bank International Composition Award, 1987
  • Indiana State University/Louisville Orchestra New Music Competition Prize, 1990
  • Aram Khachaturian Award
  • ACA Recording Award
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship
  • National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

    • Works

    Selected works include:

  • Octoéchos for Double String Quartet and Soprano
  • The Exiled Heart orchestral cycle, including The Exiled Heart (1986), Morning of Light (1988), and Beyond the Reach of Wind and Fire (1989)
  • Symphony #1: When Light Divided
  • Slow Apocolypse: Fanfare for Orchestra Manque, 1995
  • A Saint Gregory Moment
  • David of Sassoun, 1992
  • Sabre Dances for orchestra, 1991
  • Red Harvest: Concerto for violin and orchestra

    • Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

  • Works by Michelle Ekizian and Louis Karchin, New World Records
  • American Academy in Rome spring concert, 1989 June 5

    • References

    Michelle Ekizian Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA