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A conversation with Libby Larsen

  • Date & Time
    • Friday, April 28, 2017 9:30am to 10:30am
  • Cost
    • Free
  • Description

    Join the School of Music at the University of Florida as Libby Larsen receives an honorary doctororate on April 28, 2017, from 9:30-10:30 am, in the Friends of Music Room. Dr. Larsen will speak to the School of Music community about her creative activities and the state of contemporary music. Coffee and pastries will be provided.

    Libby Larsen

    Libby Larsen (b. 24 December 1950, Wilmington, Delaware) is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over twelve operas. Grammy Award winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CD’s of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.

    As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composer’s Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado Symphony.

  • Venue
    Friends of Music Room
    Address
    333 Newell Drive
    Phone
    (352) 392-2346
    Website
    Friends of Music Room Website