Above the Brightness of the Sun
By Persis Anne Parshall Vehar
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Vehar's music has
"honesty, clarity and compositional skill." (New York Times, Peter
G. Davis).
Persis
Anne Parshall Vehar’s vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from chamber
music through large ensembles and including three operas, have been performed
internationally. Among the places where
her works have been heard are Carnegie Recital Hall (New York City), Royal
Festival Hall (London), Graz Music Festival (Austria), McMaster & Brock
Universities (Canada), Piccolo Spoleto Festival (Charleston, SC), and
Rockefeller Kennedy Center Voice Competition for Excellence in American Music
(New York City).
An
award-winning composer, she has been the recipient of six Meet the Composer
Grants, nineteen annual ASCAP Awards (1984-2004), a Margaret Fairbank Jory
Award (1997) and a New York Foundation for the Arts & Buffalo & Erie
County Arts Council Special Opportunity Award (2000). Vehar’s works may be heard on Aeolian, MMC, Fleur de Son and
Mark recordings. Her compositions are
regularly broadcast on National Public Radio & Television.
She
has been on the Composition Panel for the New York Foundation for the Arts and
is a Consultant to the New York State Council on the Arts. She is included in the International Who’s
Who in Music, the Inter. Museum’s Collection of Distinguished Musicians
(London) and the Biblioteque Internationale de Musique Contemporaine
(Paris).
Vehar
holds degrees from Ithaca College and the University of Michigan. Her composition studies were with Warren
Benson, Ross Lee Finney, Roberto Gerhard and Ned Rorem, President of the
American Academy of Arts & Letters.
She has had additional advanced composition workshops with Milton
Babbitt, John Cage, Jacob Druckman, Leon Kirchner & Roger Sessions. She is in her fifth year as
Composer-in-Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY.
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