The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced that Sarah Kirkland Snider has been selected as winner of the 2014 Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers. Snider will receive $10,000 and compose a new work to be premiered by the DSO in 2015-16, as well as the opportunity for a one-month residency at the Ucross Foundation, an artists’ retreat based in northeastern Wyoming. In addition to her work as a composer, Snider is also co-director of New Amsterdam Records/Presents, the Brooklyn-based record label and presenting organization, and from 2001 to 2007 she co-curated the Look & Listen Festival, a new music series set in art galleries in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, launched in 2006, is granted annually to a living female composer of any age or nationality. It was inspired by Lebenbom, a Michigan-based composer, teacher, poet, artist, and lecturer who died in 2002. Previous winners of the award include Wang Jie, Missy Mazzoli, Du Yun, Cindy McTee, Margaret Brouwer, and Stacy Garrop.
Posted March 31, 2014
