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(also under the name Scheidel-Austin) Born in Baltimore in 1938, Elizabeth R. Austin (BMI) received her early musical training at The Peabody Conservatory. Grace N. Cushman (Junior Conservatory, Peabody) provided the thorough grounding in Musicianship, which marks Dr. Austin’s musical life. When Nadia Boulanger visited Goucher College (Towson, MD), she awarded the student composer a scholarship to study at the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontainebleau, France, after hearing Austin’s Drei Rilke Lieder. Elizabeth R. Austin has taught composition and theory at various music institutions in Hartford, Connecticut. Her association with the Hartt School (University of Hartford), where she earned an M.M. while on the faculty, included the establishment of a faculty/student exchange with the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Heidelberg-Mannheim. While studying for her Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut, Elizabeth Austin won First Prize in the Lipscomb Electronic Music Competition (Nashville) for her Klavier Double for piano and tape. As a result of this, her ongoing collaboration with pianist Jerome Reed, Nashville, has engendered many recordings and commissions. Other awards have included a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant, selection by GEDOK (Society of Women Artists in German-speaking countries) to represent the Mannheim-Ludwigshafen region in the national seventieth-year anniversary exhibition in Lübeck, and First Prize in the IAWM’s 1998 Miriam Gideon Competition (for Homage for Hildegard [von Bingen]. The Rockefeller Foundation awarded her a month-long residency at Bellagio, Italy in 2001. Performed in major cities in Europe, Scandinavia, South Africa, as well as in The United States and The Caribbean, Elizabeth Austin’s music has been received with distinction and critical acclaim This music was the subject of an interview with Bruce Duffie, New Music Connoisseur, Spring, 2003. She has had her music featured on the ACA website, as well as its being broadcast worldwide. In particular, Germany’s Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, has promoted her music, with the Leipzig pianist Ulrich Urban, both over the air as well as in the Gewandhaus. Dr. Austin and her husband, Prof. Gerhard Austin have promoted many transatlantic cultural exchanges. One such project involved an exchange of composers between Rheinsberg and Connecticut; similar exchanges took place between Weimar, Zepernick (Berlin) and Connecticut. At present, Dr. Austin is organist/choir director at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Windham Center. She serves on the Alumni Board of The Walden School (for young composers), New Hampshire. She is President of Connecticut Composers, Inc. and a member of The American Composers Alliance. Published by Arsis Press and Tonger Musikverlag (Germany) and recorded on the Capstone and Leonarda labels, Elizabeth Austin is also represented on the 1994 Society of Composers CD and Journal (Vol. 20). Her scores are available through the American Composers Alliance and through her. In the IAWM Journal, Volume 7, 2001, her music is the subject of an interview/article. Her piano music is cited in the Internationales chronologisches Lexikon Klaviermusik (Hollfelder). Dr. Teresa Crane, U. Illinois, wrote a dissertation on her song cycles (2007), as Karianne Westfal-Larsen discussed her songs in her Master’s thesis (Norway, 2008). Scarecrow Press has released the book, WOMEN OF INFLUENCE IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: NINE AMERICAN COMPOSERS, edited by Michael K. Slayton, who wrote the chapter on Austin’s life and music. The online journal SCOPE (Jan., 2011)has an article, "Composer-in-Waiting", also on Austin's music.


Portrait Concert Elizabeth R. Austin's tenure as BMI/Vanderbilt University (Nashville) Composer-in-Residence will include a concert of her music on Thursday, October 22 at 8 p.m., Turner Hall, Blair School of Music (Vanderbilt). I look forward to seeing you, if you are close by!	10/22/2015 08:00 PM Vanderbilt University (Blair School of Music) 2400 Blakemore Avenue Nashville TN 37212 us	Phone: Email:ginkgi1@gmail.com Web:www.elizabethaustinmusic.com
Connecticut Composers/American Composers Forum Night Out! "Lithuanian Lieder" (poems by Johannes Bobrowski)will be premiered in the English version.	5/14/2015 07:30 PM Universalist Church of West Hartford 433 Fern Street West Hartford CT us	Phone:860-429-1279 Email:ginkgi1@gmail.com Web:www.elizabethaustinmusic.com
New Music at Steinway Hall Please join us for an exciting program of new music at Steinway Hall, featuring works for flute, and for one, two, and four hands at the piano. Featured composers include: Allen Brings, David Heinick,Robert Hansler, Clement Reid, Margaret Collins Stoop, Elizabeth Lauer, and Elizabeth R. Austin. Featured performers will include Jerome K. Reed, Linda Maranis, and Walter Kovshik. The program will include premieres. Afterwards, please join us for refreshments, and meet the composers and performers!	6/28/2014 03:00 PM Steinway Hall 100 W. 57th Street New York City New York 10009 us	Phone: Email:ginkgi@msn.com Web:www.elizabethaustinmusic.com

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Wilderness symphony	Orchestra		00:19:00
Klavier double	Keyboard		00:10:35
Gathering threads	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1990	00:00:00
Birthday bouquet, A	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1990	00:09:15
Sonnets from the Portuguese	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1988	00:00:00
Nunc dimittis	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1983	00:03:25
Cantata beatitudines	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1982	00:13:00
Christmas, The Reason	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1981	00:04:00
Drei Rilke Lieder for middle voice & piano	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1958	00:09:00
Christ being raised	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1958	00:03:00

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Elizabeth R. Austin

Spectra: A Concert of Music for Orchestra by Connecticut Composers, Inc.

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Spectra: A Concert of Music for Voices by Connecticut Composers, Inc.

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Spectra: A Concert of Music for Orchestra by Connecticut Composers, Inc. Label: Capstone CPS-8779 Release year: 2007 Performers: Moravian Philharmonic, Joel Suben, conductor Symphony No. 2, "Lighthouse" (1993) Duration: 22:20 ..from Fanfare (July/August 2008): "..the CD showcases two composers of special merit, Carl and Austin..Austin's Symphony manages the remarkable feat of being strikingly original at the same time tha Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
Composition feminine, Works for Guitar Label: Querdtand LC 03722 Release year: 2004 Performers: Chris Bilobram, guitar, Reinhard Wolschina, piano A Falcon Fantasy for guitar & piano (2004) Duration: 5:50 1. The falcon 2. The feathers 3. Flying ..from IAWM Journal: .."beautifully and caarefully crafted and deftly performed..the result is enchanting.. Further information: Buy online:
Spectra: A Concert of Music for Piano by Connecticut Composers, Inc. Label: Capstone CPS-8732 Release year: 2004 Performers: Ulrich Urban, Margaret Mills, Genevieve Chinn, Angela Pistilli An American Triptych (2001) Duration: 8:35 1. An Urban Rog/Quodlibet 2. The Bellagio Blues 3. Hoedown ..from American Record Guide: .."Austin weaves the genres of blues, rags, and hoedowns into a pleasing polychordal, polytonal fabric.. Puzzle Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
Spectra: A Concert of Music for Voices by Connecticut Composers, Inc. Label: Capstone CPS-8710 Release year: 2002 Performers: The Kent Singers, Marguerite Mullee, director The Master's Hands for SATB chorus & piano (1994) Duration: 4:02 This telling image of a field with slaves and the larger ‘field’ of human suffering comes from the poet laureate of Connecticut, Marilyn Nelson. The play on words, “the Master’s hands” was Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
Songs By Women Label: Leonarda Records LE #352 Release year: 1999 Performers: Susan Gonzalez, soprano, Marcia Eckert, piano "A Birthday Bouquet" (1990) Duration: 8:24 1. for your birthday 2. A Birthday 3. Remember 4. He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven ..from New Music Box, AMC: "..the collection ends with Elizabeth R. Austin's vibrant A Birthday Bouquet." ..from Further information: Buy online: www.leonardarecords.com
Time Marches On..More Modern American Songs Label: Capstone CPS 8646 Release year: 1997 Performers: Gregory Wiest, tenor, Oresta Cybriwsky, piano (see also "Songs By Women") A Birthday Bouquet The title song in this cycle is joyful, spontaneous, and rapturous. Different ostinato patterns link this with the second song. The clear, unambiguous melodic line, almost folklike in nature, contrast w Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
"..and the eagle flies..." new American orchestral music Label: Capstone CPS-8634 Release year: 1997 Performers: Cracow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra, Symon Kawalla, conductor, Melinda Liebermann & Anthony King, reciters 'Wilderness' Symphony (#1) for 2 reciters & orchestra (1987) Duration: 19:00 from "New Music Connoisseur": "..strong, assertive..Austin's human concerns are deep and they infiltrate her musical ideas.. from "Hartford Courant": .."the work is a vibrant, Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
Elizabeth Austin...reflected light Label: Capstone CPS-8625 Release year: 1995 Performers: The Consitution Brass, Jerome Reed, Markus Lucke, Mary Lou Rylands & Jeananne Albee, Ursula Trede-Boettcher, Choir of Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik Heidelberg-Mannheim, Gerald Kegelmann conducting ..selected chamber works, including: To Begin (brass qunitet) Klavier Double (piano & tape) Circling ('cello & piano) Lighthouse I (harpsichord) Gathering Thread (clarinet in Bb) Zodiac Suite (piano) An Die Nachgeborenen (For Those Born Later) (SA Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
Society of Composers, Inc. "Songfest" Label: Capstone CPS-8618 Release year: 1994 Performers: Melinda Liebermann, soprano, Cornelius Witthoeft, piano Five Sonnets From The Portuguese (1988) Duration: 11:00 These songs are reflections of wonderment in the face of tumultuous emotion, just as in the life of the poetess, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. They are overlaid with radiance and joy at the discovery Further information: Buy online: www.capstonerecords.org
Blaeserkammermusik der Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik Heidelberg-Mannheim Label: Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik Heidelberg-Mannheim Release year: 1993 Performers: Stefanie Grundmann Sonata for Soprano Recorder (1991) Duration: 14:44 1. A caged bird 2. "Alma redemptoris mater" 3. A singing bird The political upheavals of the past half-century may well have exerted a subconscious influence on this image of the first movement: Further information: Buy online: from the composer

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Elizabeth R. Austin

Spectra: A Concert of Music for Orchestra by Connecticut Composers, Inc.

Composition feminine, Works for Guitar

Spectra: A Concert of Music for Piano by Connecticut Composers, Inc.

Spectra: A Concert of Music for Voices by Connecticut Composers, Inc.

Songs By Women

Time Marches On..More Modern American Songs

"..and the eagle flies..." new American orchestral music

Elizabeth Austin...reflected light

Society of Composers, Inc. "Songfest"

Blaeserkammermusik der Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik Heidelberg-Mannheim