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A native of Kansas City, Missouri (b. November 24, 1927), Emma Lou Diemer received her
degrees in music composition from the Yale School of Music (BM, MM) and the Eastman School
of Music (Ph.D.). She studied further in Brussels on a Fulbright Scholarship and at
Tanglewood. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara where
she taught composition and theory from 1971 to 1991. She has been composer-in-residence
with the Santa Barbara Symphony, and is organist emerita at First Presbyterian Church in
Santa Barbara.
Diemer has received annual ASCAP awards since 1962 for performances and
publications. Other recognition includes a Louisville Orchestra Student Award, a Ford
Foundation Young Composers Grant for a 2-year composer-residency in the Arlington, VA
schools, an NEA fellowship in electronic music, a Kennedy Center Friedheim award for her
Concerto in One Movement for Piano, the American Guild of Organists Composer of the Year
award, a Mu Phi Epsilon Merit Award, etc., plus numerous commissions. A recent (2001)
biography of ELD by Ellen Grolman Schlegel is published by Greenwood Press: A Bio-
Bibliography, Emma Lou Diemer.
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Commissioned composer for:
2rd International Women's
Brass Conference
St. Louis, Missouri
1997
Four for Three
was premiered by
Susan Slaughter,
Nancy Cochran Block,
and Abbie Conant |
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In publication since 1957, her music includes works for orchestra, band, chamber
ensembles, solo instruments, voices, and electronic pieces. She has received numerous commissions from schools, churches, and professional groups. Her music is published by
Oxford University Press, Hildegard Publishing Company, Boosey & Hawkes, Carl Fischer, The
Sacred Music Press, Arsis Press, Treble Clef Press, and others.
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Recordings include piano
and chamber music on the Vienna Modern Masters label (Encore), North/South Consonance
(Sextet for Piano, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello; Catchaturian Toccata for
Flute and Piano), Living Artists (String Quartet No. 1), Leonarda (Fantasy for Piano--also
on Fleur de Son Classics), Josara Records (Four Chinese-Love Poems), RBW Record Co. (organ
with instruments), and recently-recorded orchestral works on the Contemporary Record
Society label (Suite of Homages), Master Musicians Recordings (Concerto in One Movement
for Piano and Santa Barbara Overture), TNC Recordings (Sonata for Flute and Harpsichord).
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