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Gilda Lyons
Librettist
Biography
Gilda Lyons is a composer, performer, and visual artist, is a frequent recitalist, performing both her own vocal works and those of other living composers. The 2009/10 season includes her multi-media performance collaboration with Anonymous 4's Ruth Cunningham, the powerfully expressive mezzo Elaine Valby, and video-artist Holen Kahn, as well as new works for violinist Anthea Kreston, the Finisterra Piano Trio, and the Seasons Festival Chamber Orchestra, among others. She will return as Composer-in-Residence to The Season's Music Festival in Washington State where she served as Visiting Artist in fall of 08; she serves as Visiting Artist for the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy in Summer 09.
Recent works include:
Colette's Heirlooms
, for treble voices, commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation / Charles Kingsford Fund and Nahuatl Hymn to the All-Mother for treble choir. Her one-act opera
The Walled-Up Wife
was presented in workshop performance by American Opera Projects in spring of 2007. Ms. Lyons made her professional debut as composer and vocalist with the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra in 1997, performing the world premiere of her orchestral song cycle
Feis
. She received her Ph.D. in Music Composition from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Bard College.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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