Joan Tower

Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by The New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world. After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, the Island Prelude, five string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely performed Petroushskates.

The Essential Albany Symphony Orchestra - 2025-07-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Classical Chill - 2025-05-10T00:00:00.000000Z

Horizons - 2024-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Joan Tower: Piano Works - 2024-08-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Gershwin, Joan Tower & Steven Stucky: Works for Piano & Orchestra - 2024-02-09T00:00:00.000000Z

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