Dalit Warshaw

Who is Dalit Warshaw?

Dalit Warshaw is a composer, pianist, thereminist and professor at Boston Conservatory. Warshaw was born in New York on August 6, 1974. Her works have been performed by dozens of orchestral ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, the Y Chamber Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony and the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent commission, After the Victory for orchestra and chorus, was premiered by the Grand Rapids Symphony and the North American Choral Company in April 2006.

A full-time faculty member of the composition/theory department at the Boston Conservatory since 2004, Warshaw obtained a doctorate in music composition from the Juilliard School in 2003, where she taught courses in instrumentation and advanced orchestration in its Evening Division from 2000 to 2005. During the 2003-04 academic year, she served as Visiting Professor of Composition at Middlebury College, and as composer-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in July 2004. Her composition teachers include Samuel Adler, Tsvi Avni, Milton Babbitt, Victoria Bond, David Del Tredici, Betsy Jolas, Jonathan Kramer, Fred Lerdahl, Edward Simons, and Donald Waxman.