Libby Larsen to be Featured Guest At Chamber Music Milwaukee’s Concert, 3/18

The UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts Department of Music is proud to host composer Libby Larsen during its three-day Women Composer Festival from March 16-18. The Peck School of the Arts Music Department has been featuring Libby Larsen's work throughout its 2009-2010 season, and two concerts of her work will be performed. As one of America's most performed living composers, Larsen will participate in numerous student and community events, including coaching sessions and informal talks with music students and a composition student colloquium with "Elmer Gantry" composer Robert Aldridge.

The capstone of the Women Composer Festival will take place on March 18th at 7:30 pm at the
Helen Bader Concert Hall. That evening, Larsen will join Chamber Music Milwaukee on stage in
a concert that features several of her works and one by her mentor, Joan Tower. She will discuss her work throughout the concert.

The March 18th concert program will include:
• Fanfare for the Women (Libby Larsen)
• Margaret Songs (Libby Larsen)
• Blue Third Pieces (Libby Larsen)
• A Brazen Overture (Libby Larsen)

In addition to the Chamber Music Milwaukee concert, the festival will include a student voice
recital featuring works by women composers, coaching sessions, a composition student
colloquium and a voice area master class. A full schedule of events can be found at:
http://www4.uwm.edu/psoa/programs/music/womencomposer.html.

Tickets are $15 general admission and $9 for students, seniors and UWM alumni, faculty and
staff. For tickets, please call (414) 229-4308 or stop by the Box Office in the Zelazo Center. Box
Office hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and one hour prior to
performances. Short-term parking spaces are available for those purchasing tickets. On concert
day, metered parking is available in the Zelazo Center lot (to the south of the building) and in the
UWM Union Parking Garage, 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard.

Larsen has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate
vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas. Grammy Award
winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CD's of her work, she is constantly sought
after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the
world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory.

As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-
founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composer's Forum, which has
become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former
holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has
also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado

About Chamber Music Milwaukee
Chamber Music Milwaukee, now in its sixth season, draws on the accomplished performers of
the Peck School's Department of Music and their guests in a series of four Thursday evening
concerts. Under the artistic direction of faculty members Gregory Flint and Todd Levy,
Chamber Music Milwaukee takes a fresh look at familiar works and explores rarely performed
music in a wide range of instrumental combinations. More information can be found at
Chamber Music Milwaukee is supported in part by the William F. Vilas Trust and the Greater
Milwaukee Foundation's Dr. Abraham B. and Irma F. Schwartz Fund.

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