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Soprano
Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa has appeared as vocalist in her own work at the Seattle Symphony's Made in America festival (May 2006); Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan (July 2000); in a music-theatre work with playwright Erik Ehn at the INFANT Festival in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (June 2000); in several works as composer-in-residence at American Music Week in Sofia, Bulgaria (November 2000); at the 1999 Bang On A Can Festival; and at the 1998 Lincoln Center Festival and the World Financial Center Winter Garden in the Electric Ordo Virtutum. Also a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1992, she has premiered and recorded countless works by her composer colleagues, including operas by Anthony Braxton and Michael Gordon, for which she sung major roles.
As a composer, Ms. Bielawa has received grants, fellowships and awards from the Alpert-Ucross Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, ASCAP, and the Fondation Royaumont in France.
An enthusiastic advocate for the field, Ms. Bielawa is Artistic Director of the MATA Festival, serves on the Board of the American Music Center, and is Assistant Director and teaches composition through the New York Youth Symphony Making Score program.
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