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Biography
Ramona Luengen (b.1960) is a well-respected Canadian composer, choral conductor and educator. She has composed extensively in the choral genre and her works have been performed by both amateur and professional choirs in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Performances of her music have been broadcast on CBC, BBC, WDR (Germany), WKRP (USA) and radio stations in Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden.
Luengen's opera for young audiences, based on Joy Kogawa's novel Naomi's Road, has received over 350 performances in communities and schools in both Canada and Washington State. Her Stabat Mater was awarded Outstanding Choral Composition of the Year and Outstanding Choral Event of the Year by the Canadian Association of Choral Conductors and Composition of the Year by Vancouver New Music. Her Piano Concerto was premièred to critical acclaim.
A former instructor at both the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University for over twelve years, Luengen taught courses in theory, composition, contemporary music performance and 20th-century music appreciation.
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