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Tamar Muskal

Tamar Muskal
2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
Past Fellowship Mentor

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Tamar Muskal

Tamar Muskal
2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21
Past Fellowship Mentor

Tamar Muskal studied composition and viola at the Jerusalem Academy for Dance and Music (Israel), Yale University, and CUNY. She is mentioned in Anthony Tommasini’s 10 Best Classical Music Events of 2014. Recent and future commissions include two percussion concertos for Steve Schick along with interactive art by Daniel Rozin for the La Jolla Music Festival and the ACO, a flute concerto, strings and percussion for Abigail Dolan and the Symphonova, a piece for a rapper, rhythm vocalist, chamber ensemble and girls youth chorus for Close Encounter With Music and a piece for clarinet, string quartet and drum set for Jo-Ann Sternberg. Tamar has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet the Composer, American Composers Forum, and ASCAP, among others.

Valerie Coleman
2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2024-25
Past Honorable Mention Mentor, Current Honorable Mention Mentor, Past Fellowship Mentor

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Valerie Coleman
2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2024-25
Past Honorable Mention Mentor, Current Honorable Mention Mentor, Past Fellowship Mentor

Internationally acclaimed Grammy nominated composer and flutist Valerie Coleman is one of the most performed living composers in the world. Named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the Year, her works have garnered multiple awards including the Van Lier Fellowship Award, Herb Alpert Awards’ Ragdale Prize and MAPFund. In addition to multiple commissions at Carnegie Hall and with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Coleman’s works have been performed by The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra among many others. Coleman is the founder of the acclaimed ensemble Imani Winds and holds positions at The Juilliard School, Tanglewood Institute and Manhattan School of Music.

Missy Mazzoli
2016-17
Past Fellowship Mentor, Staff
Artistic Director

Artistic Director

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Missy Mazzoli
2016-17
Past Fellowship Mentor, Staff
Artistic Director

Artistic Director

Recently deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out NY), Missy Mazzoli has had her music performed by the Kronos Quartet, LA Opera, eighth blackbird, the BBC Symphony, Scottish Opera and many others. In 2018 she became one of the first two women, along with Jeanine Tesori, to receive a main stage commission from the Metropolitan Opera, and was nominated for a Grammy award. She is Composer-in-Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and from 2012-2015 was Composer-in-Residence with Opera Philadelphia. Upcoming commissions include works for Opera Philadelphia, Chicago Lyric Opera and the Norwegian National Opera. Missy teaches at the Mannes School of Music and her works are published by G. Schirmer.