By Emma Lou Diemer Laura Kobayashi, Ellen Grolman, ... More by Emma Lou Diemer, Laura Kobayashi, Ellen Grolman, Joan DeVee Dixon, Lori Anton, Sandra Woodward & Bryan Anton. Some features of this site may not work without it. While at UCSB, Diemer helped to establish the computer/electronic music program. Diemer's parents were George Willis Diemer (1885-1956),[6] American educator, college president, one of a group of American educators who were sent by the U.S. Dept. She was consultant for the MENC Contemporary Music Project before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland where she taught composition and theory from 1965-70. Her great interest in composing music continued through College High School in Warrensburg, MO, and she majored in composition at the Yale Music School (BM, 1949; MM, 1950) and at the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D, 1960). All Rights Reserved. Emma Lou Diemer was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Works include many collections and single pieces for organ as well as many for solo piano, piano 4 hands, and two pianos. She is professor emeritus, 1991–present. She then went on to study composition in Brussels, Belgium on a Fulbright Scholarship from 1952 to 1953, ultimately returning to the United States to receive her Ph.D from the Eastman School of Music in 1960. Her songs number in the dozens, using texts by many contemporary and early poets including Walt Whitman, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Alice Meynell, Thomas Campion, Shakespeare, John Donne, her sister Dorothy Diemer Hendry, Emily Dickinson, Robert Lowell, and many others. 1927) is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. Piano trios are a showcase for any composer of ability.”--about Attracting Opposites — Emma Lou Diemer, composer A remarkable concert that exhibited expertise and profound musicality. [3] She was professor of theory and composition at the University of Maryland 1965-70, and joined the faculty of the University of California (UCSB) in 1971. This work is on an Albany Records album Emma Lou Diemer, recorded by the composer. You'll find a wide selection of Emma Lou Diemer sheet music, songbooks, and music books at Sheet Music Plus. Emma Lou Diemer (born November 24, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is an American composer. She is well-known for her vocal music Three Madrigals (1962) and her Concerto in One Movement for Piano (1991), which won Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards in 1992. A Requiem for Woodwind Quintet and String Quintet - FS, A Requiem for Woodwind Quintet and String Quintet - Sc/Pts, A Summer Day: Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano - Sc/Pts, Concerto for Flute and Concert Band - Sc/Pts, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra - Solo/Pno Rdx, Concerto for Flute and Orchestra - Sc/Pts, Concerto in One Movement for Organ and Chamber Orchestra: Alaska - Sc/Pts, Concerto in One Movement for Organ and Chamber Orchestra: Alaska - FS, Concerto in One Movement for Piano and Orchestra - Sc/Pts, Concerto in One Movement for Piano and Orchestra - FS, Concerto in One Movement for Piano and Orchestra (single performance score) - 2 Pno Reduction, Four Songs: Art Songs by American Women Composers v. 14 - VS, Homage to Poulenc, Mozart and MacDowell for Flute, Cello and Piano - Sc/Pts, Lament for Oboe and String Orchestra - Sc/Pts, Lament for Oboe and String Orchestra - FS, Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord or Piano - Solo/Pno, Toccata for Amanda: An Homage to the Minimalists and Antonio Vivaldi - Solo, Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello - Sc/Pts, Two Songs: Art Songs by American Women Composers v. 4 - VS. THREE SONATAS FOR PIANO BY EMMA LOU DIEMER A Written Document Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts In The School of Music by Chin-Ming Lin B.F.A., Tunghai University, Taiwan, 2000 M.M., Carnegie Mellon University, 2003 December, 2007 . She received both her B.M. Diemer's compositional style over the years has varied from tonal to atonal, from traditional to experimental. Dedicated to/ premiered by Amanda Setlik. Emma Lou Diemer – Trumpet & Organ, Music Of The Baroque Summer Day: The Complete Works For Violin And Piano By Emma Lou Diemer Lou emma - Der absolute TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester Im Folgenden finden Sie als Käufer die Testsieger von Lou emma, während der erste Platz unseren Testsieger darstellt. Harvest Home 2005 Musicks Empire 2008 This Is My Song 2012 Shenandoah 2010 Marilyn Mason - Diemer, Sowerboy, Eben, Bolcom (Vol. Diemer has written many choral works as well. At UCSB she was instrumental in founding the electronic/computer music program. She has written works for non-professional and professional performers, originally under the "Gebrauchsmusik" philosophy, but has produced many works, particularly for keyboard, that are difficult and challenging. Looking for Emma Lou Diemer sheet music? She studied in Brussels, Belgium on a Fulbright Scholarship and spent two summers of composition study at the Berkshire Music Center. Aria and Scherzo for C Instrument and piano or organ, 1997 (SMP, 1998). She studied piano from an early age, wrote little piano pieces as a child, and began to play the organ in church at age 13 (First Christian Church in Warrensburg, MO where the family had moved: her father having become president of Central MO State College). String Quartet No. 11) 2004 Where Music Touches Spirit 2016 Muses … Psalms for Flute and Organ or Piano, 1998 (Seesaw, 1998). In 1971 she moved from the East Coast to teach composition and theory at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Emma Lou Diemer (b. Her great interest in composing music continued through College High School in Warrensburg, MO, and she majored in composition at the Yale Music School (BM, 1949; MM, 1950) and at the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D, 1960). Emma Lou Diemer (born November 24, 1927[1] in Kansas City, Missouri[2]) is an American composer. Diemer's siblings were poet/teacher Dorothy Diemer Hendry (1918-2006);[6] George Willis Diemer II (1920-1944),[6] Marine fighter pilot, musician/teacher; John Irving Diemer (1920-1964),[6] school principal/musician in Overland Park, KS. and her M.M from the Yale School of Music in 1949 and 1950, respectively. Emma Lou Diemer was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 24, 1927. 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