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Faye-Ellen Silverman began her music studies before the age of four at the Dalcroze School of Music. She first
achieved national recognition by winning the Parents League Competition, judged by Leopold
Stokowski, at the age of 13. She holds a BA from Barnard, an AM from Harvard, and a DMA
from Columbia in music composition. Approximately 70 of her compositions are published by
Seesaw Music Corp. Oboe-sthenics is recorded on Finnadar-Atlantic, and Passing Fancies,
Restless Winds, and Speaking Alone are on New World Recordings, and Zigzags is on Crystal
Records.
Silverman's awards include the selection of her Oboe-sthenics to represent the
United States at the International Rostrum of Composers/UNESCO (1982); winning the Indiana
State [Orchestral] Composition Contest, resulting in a performance by the Indianapolis
Symphony (1982); a Governor's Citation (1982); and having September 30, 1982 named Faye-
Ellen Silverman Day in Baltimore.
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Commissioned composer for:
4th International Women's
Brass Conference
Normal, Illinois
2003
Meetings
was premiered by
JUNCTION Tuba/Euphonium
Quartet |
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Additionally, Silverman she has been the recipient of the National
League of American Pen Women's biennial music award (2002), yearly Standard Awards from
ASCAP since 1983, several Meet the Composer grants, and an American Music Center grant. She
was a resident scholar at the Villa Serbelloni of the Rockefeller Foundation (1987), a
Composers' Conference Fellow (1985), a Yaddo Fellow (1984), and a MacDowell Fellow (1982).
She is currently a Board Member of The International Women's Brass Conference (for which
she served as composer-in-residence), and a founding member of Music Under Construction.
She has received commissions from Philip A. De Simone, Thomas Matta, the International Women's Brass Conference for
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Junction, the Monarch Brass Quintet, the
Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, the Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates, the Con
Spirito woodwind quintet, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music
Society of Baltimore, and a joint commission from the American Brass Quintet, the Catskill
Brass Quintet, the Mt. Vernon Brass Players, and the Southern Brass quintet (under the
National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program).
She has been a member of the Mannes College faculty since 1991, and of its
Extension Division since 1995. She also teaches at the Eugene Lang College, a division of
The New School in New York.
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