2010 -- Premiere of Gates of Silence:
Nashville Public Radio story with audio
Article in The Tennessean
Berklee Today
2010 -- Berkelee Today features Susan Botti in "Not Your Grandfather's New Music" article.
NSO Taiwan
2009 -- The National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan has named Susan Botti as their Artist-in-Residence for the 2009-2010 season. The residency will include performances of Botti's orchestral and chamber music featuring Ms. Botti as soloist.
National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group
2009 -- Susan Botti has been commissioned by the National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group for a new work for wind ensemble to premiere in the 2010-2011 season.
Montalvo Residency
2009 -- Susan Botti has been awarded a Lucas Artists' music residency at the Montalvo Arts Center, CA
The Blakemore Trio
2008 -- Gates of Silence - 3 new works to premiere in the 2009-2010 season.
Poetry of Linda Gregerson.
Part of "The Blair Commissions: Music for the 21st Century," funded by a grant from the James Stephen Turner Family Charitable Foundation. This grant has allowed The Blakemore Trio (violinist Carolyn Huebl, cellist Felix Wang and pianist Amy Dorfman) to commission composer Susan Botti for a set of three compositions: for violin and piano, piano trio, and piano trio with voice, premiering in Nashville and in New York's Merkin Recital Hall in 2010.
Manhattan School of Music
2007 -- Susan Botti joins the Composition Department of the Manhattan School of Music
American Music Center Board
2007 -- Susan Botti joins the Board of Directors of the American Music Center for a 3-year term.
AMC Website
LA Philharmonic Green Umbrella series
2007 -- Consulting Composer for New Music Steven Stucky celebrates his 20th anniversary with the Philharmonic by leading a Composer's Choice program with three of his own works: Piano Quartet, Dialoghi for solo cello and Boston Fancies, as well as James Matheson's Songs of Desire, Love and Loss and Susan Botti's Jabberwocky. Botti is the guest soprano (December 4, 2007) .
Rome Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship Awards
2005 -- Susan Botti (UMichigan, Composition Faculty) has won a coveted Rome Prize and will spend 11 months in residency at the American Academy in Rome starting in September 2005. Ms. Botti, whose extraordinary work, Cosmosis, premiered at the U of M Symphony Band concert at Carnegie Hall in February, was also announced as a winner of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her newest orchestra work, Translucence, will premiere with the Cleveland Orchestra (who commissioned the piece), May 19-22 at Severance Hall in Cleveland, conducted by Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst.
American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2004 Music Award Winners
2004 -- The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the sixteen recipients of this year's awards in music, which total $185,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members: Olly Wilson (chairman), Samuel Adler, Jack Beeson, Mario Davidovsky, Andrew Imbrie, Ezra Laderman, and Ned Rorem. The awards will be presented at the Academy's annual Ceremonial in May. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the Academy.
Goddard Lieberson Fellowships
Two Goddard Lieberson fellowships of $15,000, endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation, are given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts. This year they will go to Susan Botti and Evan Ziporyn.
Susan Botti appointed Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow
2003 - The Cleveland Orchestra announced the appointment of Susan Botti as the third Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow. During a two-year relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Lewis Fellow will be in residence for three weeks, participate in rehearsals, master classes, and educational activities, and compose a new piece for the Orchestra. The Young Composers Endowment Fund was established in 1997 by a $1 million gift from Jan R. and Daniel R. Lewis. Mr. Lewis is a trustee of the Musical Arts Association.
Susan Botti was selected by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The premiere of Ms. Botti's commissioned composition will be led by Mr. Welser-Möst during the 2004-05 season.
In March 2004, a new work by Susan Botti will be given its world premiere by The Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Assistant Conductor Wilson Hermanto. Also an accomplished singer, Ms. Botti made her Cleveland Orchestra debut as a soprano soloist in the world premiere performances of Matthias Pintscher's with lilies white in May 2002.
Previous Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellows were Marc-André Dalbavie, who served for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons, and Matthias Pintscher, who served for the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons.
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