Ruth Lomon

Areas of Expertise

Music Composition; Orchestration

Email: lomon@brandeis.edu

Current Project

Ruth will be preparing for the  April 2008 premiere of her oratorio Testimony of Witnesses with Jane Ring Frank and the Boston Secession Chorus.

Biography

Ruth Lomon is composer-in-residence for  Boston Secession Chorus.  She has received commissions from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, The New Mexico Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Arts, Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex, Alea III, Boston Secession, and awards from Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Jory Foundation, American Music Center,  Miriam Gideon award for composition, Thanks be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation; fellowships from Macdowell/Norlin, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Helene Wurkitzer Foundation and the Bunting Institute/Harvard.

From 1972-1985 she concertized with Iris Graffman Wenglin in duo piano and duet programs specializing in contemporary music and works of women composers.

Ruth was National Vice President of American Women Composers (AWC) (1979-1985) and Founding President of the Massachusetts Chapter of AWC that co-sponsored the first conference of Women in Music in Massachusetts (1984) with Tufts University.

Education

L.Mus., McGill University

Artist Diploma, Le Conservatoire de Quebec

Representative Publications

Lomon, Ruth.  Terra Incognita.  Recorded by The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.  Washington, D.C.: Arsis Press.

Lomon, Ruth.  Songs of Remembrance.  For soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone, with piano, oboe/English horn accompaniment.  Recorded by Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI).  Van Nuys, CA: Theodore Front Music, Inc.

Links

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Web Page

Arsis Press

New Music Box