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Sheree Clement’s music has been featured in the Tanglewood Music Festival, and performed by Speculum Musicae, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra in Boston, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Canyonlands Ensemble in Salt Lake City, Utah, the League/ISCM, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Parnasus, APNM and the Atlantic String Quartet.

She has composed works for orchestra, chamber orchestra, chamber ensembles with and without voice, string quartet, solo piano, and electronic media. Her published works are available from G. Schirmer / AMP and APNM. Speculum Musicae released her Chamber Concerto on CRI #617.

Clement received awards from ASCAP, the American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters, Tanglewood Music Festival and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and grants from the American Music Center and Meet the Composer.

Born in 1955 in Baltimore, Maryland, she studied piano, music theory and composition as a young person at the Peabody Institute and the Junior Conservatory Camp. At the University of Michigan she studied Music Composition with William Albright, William Bolcom, George Wilson, and Leslie Bassett, and received a B. Mus. and M. Mus. She completed her D.M.A. in Music Composition at Columbia University, where she studied with Mario Davidovsky.

She currently lives in New York City, where she writes software, composes music, and is President of the League of Composers/ISCM.

D. M. A. in Music Composition, Columbia University, New York, NY 1984

M. Mus. In Music Composition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1978

B. Mus. In Music Composition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 1977

Awards, Fellowships

Goddard Leiberson Award, 1985, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

ASCAP Award to Young Composers 1985

ASCAP Standard Award 1984, 1885, 1986

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1983

American Music Center Copying Grant 1982

Residence at the MacDowell Colony 1982

Crofts Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Center 1981

Grant Award Tanglewood Music Center 1981

League-ISCM National Composers Competition 1981

Fellow at the Composers’ Conference 1979, 1980, 1982

Commissions and Requested Works

Viola Trio, for viola, ‘cello and piano commissioned by Lois Martin. 2008 -  awaiting premiere

Parnassus: Variations / Obsessions 1985 for five players, premiered Nov. 12, 1985 at Merkin Hall, New York

The Jubal Trio: Wherewith I Strive for flute, mezzo and harp. commissioned 1986, premiered by the Canyonlands New Music Ensemble, Morris Rosenzweig, conductor Salt Lake City, Utah, November, 2001

The Borealis Ensemble: Belladonna Dreams for woodwind quintet and piano. Composed for their debut recital in Carnegie Recital Hall 1979.

Reviews:

Belladonna Dreams : in a review of Borealis Ensemble debut recital, New York  Times, Tuesday, February 12, 1980.

String Quartet:  in a review of a concert by the Atlantic Quartet, New York Times, Sunday March 28, 1982.

Chamber Concerto:  in a review of a new music concert at Tanglewood, New York Times, Tuesday, August 6, 1985.  and in another review of the same concert:  The Boston Globe, August 6, 1985.

Review of the Boston premiere, by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, in the Boston Globe, Sunday September 22,  1985 and on Monday October 7, 1985.

Review of the New York premiere, by Speculum Musicae, in The New York Times, Thursday, March 20, 1986.