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Composers BureauAlice A. MoerkBiography Alice began her music studies in Philadelphia PA and Freeport IL. She holds a B.Mus. degree from Carthage College, an MFA degree from Ohio University, and the Ph.D. degree in musicology from West Virginia University. Her specialties are in medieval and 20th century music - including Cyber-Arts, music and the brain, computers, and creativity. She has worked with Ernst von Dohnanyi, Thomas Canning, Duke Ellington and Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening™. Her honors and awards include outstanding teacher, arts awards, research grants, and listings with several Who's Whos. Much of her research has appeared in journals and textbooks. Her multimedia works were featured in MediArts '93 and MediArts '94 at Fairmont State College. Performed in Europe, South America and the United States, many of her works have been supported by the Fairmont Stave College Foundation and by West Virginia Arts and Humanities Commissions. In 1999, SAI highlighted her works in their Composer Showcase. She was commissioned to write a work, ByrdWatch, for Senator Robert C. Byrd of WV and, in 2000, was recipient of the Music Award from the National League of American Pen Women. Her concerto Ciurlionis was featured by the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, DC as part of the Ciurlionis celebration. She recently organized and served as artistic director for the Benefit Concert for Multiple Sclerosis in West Virginia for which Tina's Songs were written. She is a member of and has been funded by ASCAP. Other professional memberships include SAI, IAWM, Tampa Bay Composer's Forum, Artist's Guild of AMI and Gulf Coast Writer's Guild. Tradition and Structure provide springboards for her concept of sound. Trained as both musicologist and keyboardist, Alice is a proponent of the new while adhering to the core of tradition. Creativity, she believes, is found within ourselves, in the world around us, in the inane and the humorous and in the inexplicable To this end, her music combines that sense of structure and tradition with a uniquely forward-looking musical vocabulary and timbre. Compositions Further Information
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Alice Moerk is a freelance composer who lives on Anna Maria Island in Florida where she maintains her studio. She is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Fairmont (WV) State College who has taught music literature and composition with the WBV Governor's Honors Academy and with the WV Elderhostel system. She also taught at Lees College in Jackson, KY, Vardell Hall in Red Springs NC, and at Marion College n Marion VA, and served churches in the Midwest and East as organist and choir director.