KRISTIN KUSTER - USA
BORN 24 JUNE
BORN 24 JUNE
Born in 1973, American composer Kristin Kuster grew up in Boulder, Colorado. She is an Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan, and lives in Ann Arbor.
Kristin Kuster “writes commandingly for the orchestra,” and her music “has an invitingly tart edge” (The New York Times).
Her colorfully enthralling, lush and visceral compositions take inspiration from architectural space, the weather, and mythology. Her orchestral music “unquestionably demonstrates her expertise in crafting unique timbres” (Steve Smith, Night After Night).
Recent CD releases include Breath Beneath on the PRISM Saxophone Quartet’s New Dynamic Records CD Breath Beneath, Two Jades on the UM Symphony Band’s Artifacts Equilibrium CD, Little Trees on UM Percussion Ensemble’s Locally Grown Equilibrium CD, and Lost Gulch Lookout on the NAXOS CD Millenium Canons: Looking Forward, Looking Back by the UGA Wind Ensemble.
Ms. Kuster’s music has received support from such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2004 Charles Ives Fellowship), the Sons of Norway, American Composers Orchestra, League of American Orchestras, Meet The Composer, the Jerome Foundation through the American Composers Forum, the Argosy Foundation, the Jack L. Adams Foundation, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, and the Larson Family Foundation. She has received commissions from ensembles such as the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the 6ixWire Project, the Lisbon Summer Fest Chamber Choir, the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble, the Michigan Philharmonic, Sequitur, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Cantori New York, the New York Central City Chorus, the Heartland Opera Troupe, and the Summerfest Chamber Series.
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ANN MOUNSEY BARTHOLOMEW - UK
DIED 24 JUNE
Ann Sheppard Mounsey, or Ann Mounsey Bartholomew on marriage (1811–1891), was born on 17 April 1811 at 21 Old Compton Street, Soho, London, the eldest child of Thomas Mounsey, a licensed victualler, and his wife, Mary, née Briggs. She was a pianist, organist and composer. She studied with Johann Bernhard Logier. After 1828 she became the organist at various London churches, serving at St Vedast Foster Lane for nearly fifty years. She also performed at concerts and as an accompanist.
In 1845 she performed as accompanist at the premiere of Hear My Prayer, the anthem by Felix Mendelssohn for soprano solo, chorus and organ, and in 1853 married its librettist, William Bartholomew (1793–1867). After her marriage she taught music in London and worked as a composer. Bartholomew composed a large number of songs, part-songs, hymns and works for piano and organ. Selected compositions include:
The Nativity, oratorio
Supplication and Thanksgiving, sacred cantata
Sacred Harmony, collection of sacred works
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