Ms. Schwendinger is an Associate Prof. of Composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also the Artistic Director of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, where she studied with Andrew Imbrie, Olly Wilson and John Thow. She has also been an Associate Prof. of Composition and Theory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a lecturer at the Music Department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, Smith College and on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music-Preparatory Division, where she started a program for young composers, several of whom have moved on to successful careers. Her Chansons Innocentes, published by Hildegard Publishing Company, is available through Theodore Presser and her Chamber Concerto, reviewed in the American Record Guide as “melodic and atmospheric”, is on the CD Grand Designs from the Society of Composer's records series on Capstone records. Three upcoming CDs of her works are soon to be released. High Wire Act, will feature her chamber works on the Centaur label, another CD with two of her Concerti (Esprimere and Chiaroscuro Azzurro) will be released on Albany records; And a third CD of her entire piano music will be recorded by the incomparable Christopher Taylor.
Web: http://lauraschwendinger.com/ (2010)