Edie Hill, composer

     From orchestra to solo, epigram to epic, Edie Hill’s music unfolds itself seamlessly in all spaces and idioms. Hill (b. 1962, New York City), currently artist-in-residence at St. Paul’s The Schubert Club, is a nationally acclaimed composer whose vocal and instrumental works are frequently performed internationally and throughout the United States.
    Distinguished by the Star Tribune.as a "local star," Hill is a three-time McKnight Composer Fellow, a 2001 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellow and a two-time recipient of a Bush Foundation Fellowship in the Arts. Her music has been praised for its dynamism, broad color palette, vivid and evocative images, economy and grace. A 1996 winner of the Dale Warland Singers Choral Ventures Program, she has received grants and awards from Chamber Music America, ASCAP, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Meet the Composer and three major grants for the creation of new work from the Jerome Foundation.
    In addition to her residency with The Schubert Club (where she leads the composer mentorship program), she was named the Rose Ensemble’s first composer-in-residence (1999) and has served as resident composer with the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Rock Valley College and the Taos Chamber Music Group. Hill actively cultivates the talents of young composers and musicians as well as educating and engaging the public in the music of today. She has been guest lecturer at such institutions as the Iowa Composers Forum’s Nuts N’ Bolts Festival, Tufts University, Syracuse University, The University of Michigan and varied Twin Cities Schools.
    Recently praised by renowned American conductor Robert Page as “one of [her generation’s] most successful composers,” Hill’s facility in “exploiting the emotional richness of texts” keeps her in continual demand. She has received instrumental music performance commissions for solo, chamber and orchestral artists such as the Sherman Chamber Ensemble, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, the Ives Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Contemporary Chamber Orchestra ICE, the Amarillo Symphony, flutist Linda Chatterton, flutist Susan Rotholz, organists Stephen Self and Dean Billmeyer and clarinetist, Andrew Lamy. The Jammin’ Town Musicians, for WAMSO’s 05-06 Kinder Konzerts received 52 performances by members of the Minnesota Orchestra. Jambalaya Stomp for concert band premiered at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis on March 6, 2006. Hill is currently developing work for the New York-based ensembles Arc Duo and Two Sides Sounding and clarinetist, Andrew Lamy.
    Audiences have heard her music performed at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, the LA County Museum of Art Monday Evening Concert Series, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, MN, the Walker Art Center, the New York City Downtown Arts Festival, the New Music Chicago Spring Festival, the Mostly Women Composers Festival in New York City and San Antonio, Boston’s Jordan Hall, New Jersey’s Cape May Festival, and the Landmark Center of St. Paul, MN.
    Hill earned a B.A. in music composition and piano performance at Bennington College and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota with principal composition teacher Lloyd Ultan. She has also studied extensively with Libby Larsen.