The College of Music is pleased to present Housewright Eminent Scholar Libby Larsen, composer, in recital on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in Opperman Music Hall.

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.

The program will include the following works by Larsen:

Fanfare for the Women

O Mgnum Mysterium

Today, This Spring

Circular Rondo

Cowboy Songs

Holy Roller

Slang

Featured Performers:

Jonathan Holden, clarinet

Ben Sung, Violin

Katherine Weintraub, saxophone

Deloise Lima, piano

Valerie M. Trujillo, piano

Jihye Chang Sung, piano

Rebecca Walenz, trumpet

Bailey Hilgren, oboe

Justin Lindley, guitar

Carol Anne Osborne, soprano

FSU Choral Union, featuring soloists Hannah Valdez, soprano; Cara Young, alto; Braeden Ayres, tenor; and Samuel Carlton, bass

Jeremy Wiggins and Brandon Waddles, conductors

This event is free and open to the public.