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Composers BureauFaye-Ellen SilvermanBiography Silverman's awards include the selection of her "Oboe-sthenics" to represent the United States at the International Rostrum of Composers/UNESCO, resulting in international radio broadcasts (1982); winning the Indiana State [Orchestral] Composition Contest, resulting in a performance by the Indianapolis Symphony (1982); a Governor's Citation (1982); and having September 30, 1982 named "Faye-Ellen Silverman Day" in Baltimore by Mayor Donald Schaeffer. Additionally, she has been the recipient of yearly Standard Awards from ASCAP since 1983, several Meet the Composer grants, and an American Music Center grant. She has been a resident scholar at the Villa Serbelloni of the Rockefeller Foundation (1987), a Composers' Conference Fellow (1985), a Yaddo Fellow (1984), and a MacDowell Fellow (1982). She is currently an Honorary Board Member of The International Women's Brass Conference and a founding member of Music Under Construction. Included among performances of Dr. Silverman's works have been those by the Baltimore Symphony (Sergiu Comissiona, cond.), the Brooklyn Philharmonic (Lukas Foss, cond.), the Greater Bridgeport Symphony (Gustav Meier, cond.), the New Orleans Philharmonic (Maxim Shostakovich, cond.), the International Experimental Music Festival in Bourges, ISCM - Korea section, Grupo Musica Hoje (Brazil), the Monday Evening Concert series (Los Angeles), and the Aspen Music Festival. She has received commissions from the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, the Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates, the Con Spirito woodwind quintet, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore, and a joint commission from the American Brass Quintet, the Catskill Brass Quintet, the Mt. Vernon Brass Players, and the Southern Brass quintet (under the National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program). Silverman is also the author of several articles, record reviews for The Baltimore Sun, and of the 20th century section of the Schirmer History of Music. She has taught at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Aspen Music Festival, the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, several branches of the City University of New York, Columbia University, and at the pre-college level. She has been a member of the Mannes College faculty since 1991 (teaching graduate courses), and of the Extension Division since 1995. An accomplished pianist as well, she has recorded for Radio Cologne (WDR), and has performed at the International Festival of Experimental Music in Bourges, the Library of Congress, and as soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Compositions A complete list of published compositions may be found at the composer's website at the American Music Center. A score sample from At the Colour Cafe, for brass choir, is included here. Further Information
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Faye-Ellen Silverman began her music studies before the age of four
at the Dalcroze School of Music. She first achieved national recognition
by winning the "Parents League Competition", judged by Leopold Stokowski,
at the age of 13. She holds a B.A. (cum laude and honors in music)
from Barnard College, an M.A. from Harvard, and a D.M.A. from Columbia,
both in music composition. Her teachers have included Otto Luening,
William Sydeman, Leon Kirchner, Lukas Foss, Vladimir Ussachevsky,
and Jack Beeson. Approximately 50 of her compositions are published
by Seesaw Music. "Oboe-sthenics" is recorded on Finnadar-Atlantic,
and "Passing Fancies", "Restless Winds", and "Speaking Alone" are
on New World Recordings.