Joan Tower

Composer

1938 –

80

Who is Joan Tower?

Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world. After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia, a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, the Island Prelude, two string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely-performed Petroushskates.

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Born
Sep 6, 1938
New Rochelle
Also known as
  • Tower, Joan
  • Tower Joan
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Bachelor of Arts, Bennington College
    Music
  • Doctor of Musical Arts, Columbia University
    Musical composition
    ( - 1968)
Lived in
  • New York

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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