Joan Tower
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a
Grammy-winning
contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by ''
The New Yorker'' as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world. After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, ''
Sequoia'' (1981), a
tone poem which
structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including ''
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman'', which is something of a response to
Aaron Copland's ''
Fanfare for the Common Man'', the ''
Island Prelude'', five
string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the
Naumburg Award-winning
Da Capo Chamber Players, which
commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely performed ''
Petroushskates''.
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