Michelle Ekizian

American composer of Armenian heritage

Michelle Ekizian (born November 21, 1956) is an American composer of Armenian heritage.

Life

Michelle Ekizian was born in Bronxville, New York. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a master's degree from Columbia University, having studied with Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky, Nicolas Flagello and Vladimir Ussachevsky. Her music has been performed internationally.^[1]^[2]

Honors and awards

American Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome, 1988
Commerce Bank International Composition Award, 1987
Indiana State University/Louisville Orchestra New Music Competition Prize, 1990
Aram Khachaturian Award
ACA Recording Award
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

Works

Selected works include:

Octoéchos for Double String Quartet and Soprano
The Exiled Heart orchestral cycle, including The Exiled Heart (1986), Morning of Light (1988), and Beyond the Reach of Wind and Fire (1989)
Symphony #1: When Light Divided
Slow Apocolypse: Fanfare for Orchestra Manque, 1995
A Saint Gregory Moment
David of Sassoun, 1992
Sabre Dances for orchestra, 1991
Red Harvest: Concerto for violin and orchestra^[3]

Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

Works by Michelle Ekizian and Louis Karchin, New World Records
American Academy in Rome spring concert, 1989 June 5

References

^ "Works by Michelle Ekizian and Louis Karchin" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2010.
^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved December 9, 2010.
^ Edwards, Maurice (2006). How music grew in Brooklyn: a biography of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra.