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From her childhood in the coal-mining valleys of South Wales, Hilary Tann (born 1947) developed the love of nature which has inspired all her music, whether written for performance in the United States (Adirondack Light for narrator and orchestra, for the Centennial of Adirondack State Park, 1992) or for her home in Wales (the celebratory overture, With the heather and small birds, commissioned by the 1994 Cardiff Festival). A deep interest in the music of Japan has led to study of the ancient Japanese vertical bamboo flute (the shakuhachi) from 1985 to 1991 and to a residency at Kansai Gaidai, near Kyoto, in 1990. A number of her works reflect this special interest, most particularly the chamber work, Of erthe and air (1990) and From afar first performed in October 1996 by the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirk Trevor and also played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in 2000. Recent years have seen a series of concerto commissions – for violin (Here, the Cliffs premiered in October 1997 by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra), saxophone (In the First, Spinning Place premiered in March 2000 by the University of Arizona Symphony Orchestra). The most recent, Anecdote, was written for the Romanian cellist Ovidiu Marinescu and the Newark (DE) Symphony Orchestra for performance in December 2000. In March 2001, Hilary Tann was invited to be composer-in-residence The Louisville Symphony Orchestra prior to a performance of her 1989 concert overture, The Open Field (In memoriam Tienanmen Square) . In July 2001, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra premiered The Grey Tide and the Green, commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms in Cardiff, Wales. Since 1980, Hilary Tann has lived south of the Adirondacks in upstate New York where she chairs the Department of Performing Arts at Union College in Schenectady. She holds degrees in composition from the University of Wales at Cardiff and from Princeton. From 1982 to 1995, she was active in the International League of Women Composers and served in a number of Executive Committee positions. Since 1989 her music has been published exclusively by Oxford University Press. Numerous organizations have supported her work, including the Welsh Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Meet the Composer.

Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Doppelgaenger	Keyboard		00:05:30
Sound dawn	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices		00:00:00
Shakkei	Orchestra	2006	00:14:00
Sarsen	Orchestra	2001	00:10:00
The Grey Tide and the Green	Orchestra	2001	00:11:00
Toward Dusk	Orchestra	2001	00:04:00
Fanfare for a River	Orchestra	2001	00:04:00
The Walls of Morlais Castle	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	00:10:00
In the First, Spinning Place	Orchestra	2000	00:12:00
The Cresset Stone	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2000	00:09:00	The Cresset Stone
Anecdote	Orchestra	2000	00:14:00
A Girl's Song to Her Mother	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1999	00:05:00	A Girl's Song to Her Mother
Mother and son	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1999	00:02:40
Psalm 104 (Praise, My Soul)	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1998	00:08:00
The Moor	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1997	00:06:00
Nothing Forgotten	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1997	00:10:00
Here, The Cliffs	Orchestra	1997	00:17:00
A Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1997	00:05:00	A Sad Pavan Forbidding Mourning
From Afar	Orchestra	1996	00:20:00
Mother and Son	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:03:00
Mother and Son	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1996	00:03:00
From the Song of Amergin	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1995	00:13:00
Through the echoing timber	Orchestra	1994	00:04:00
Water's Edge	Orchestra	1994	00:09:00
"With the heather and small birds"	Orchestra	1994	00:10:00
The Cresset Stone	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1993	00:09:00
Look little low heavens	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1993	00:07:00
Water's Edge	Keyboard	1993	00:09:00
Water's edge	Keyboard	1993	00:09:00
Look little low heavens	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1992	00:07:00
Adirondack Light	Orchestra	1992	00:19:00
Adirondack light	Orchestra	1992	00:18:30
Of erthe and air	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:15:00
Llef	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:08:00
Of erthe and air	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1990	00:15:00
The Open Field	Orchestra	1989	00:11:00
Open field, The	Orchestra	1989	00:10:30
Arachne	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1987	00:12:00	Arachne
Winter sun, summer rain	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1986	00:12:00
Windhover	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1985	00:08:00
Windhover	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1985	00:08:00
Windhover	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1985	00:08:00
Doppelganger	Keyboard	1984	00:06:00
Sound Dawn	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1983	00:04:00
Duo	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1981	00:10:00
Duo for oboe and viola	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1981	00:10:00

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