Nomi Epstein is active as a composer, concert organizer, and music educator. She has earned degrees from Columbia University and New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers include Fred Lerdahl, Michael Gandolfi, Marti Epstein, Amy Williams, Jay Alan Yim, and Augusta Read Thomas. Epstein has attended such festivals as La Schola Cantorum?s month-long institute in Paris, the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance under the direction of Steve Drury at New England Conservatory, Music05 Festival at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Fontainebleau School for the Arts in France. Her Music for Orchestra won the first annual Northwestern University Orchestra Composition Competition and was premiered by the Northwestern Chamber Orchestra in 2004. In November 2005, Epstein was invited to participate in the Young Composer Workshop under Jo Kondo at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in Huddersfield, UK. Most recently, Epstein attended the 2006 Bang on a Can Summer Institute where her Music for 7 Instruments and Voice was premiered under the direction of Brad Lubman. Past commissions have come from the New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble (This Too Shall Pass premiered in April 2006 at Jordon Hall in Boston) and the internationally renowned guitarist Seth Josel (Blueprint premiered in June 2006 in Great Barrington, MA). Epstein?s works have been performed at various venues in Boston, North Adams, New York, New Haven, Chicago, Cincinnati, Huddersfield, UK, and Paris, France. She is completing her doctoral work in Composition at Northwestern University where she co-founded the new music group, Exposure- Musicians for New Music. Epstein has taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University as well as a founding piano teacher at the British School of Performing Arts of Chicago.
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