Ann K. Gebuhr holds the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, Master of
Music in Theory, and Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Music Theory
from Indiana University. Her music has been performed throughout the
United States and in Europe, including performances by the Houston
Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Filharmonie George
Enescu of Bucharest, Romania, Evergreen Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic
Orchestra of Indianapolis and the Waterloo Symphony. She is a MacDowell
Colony Fellow and is the first woman to be awarded the Creative Artist
Award in Composition by the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris
County. Works have been published by the Bassoon Heritage Edition, MMB
Music and Thomas House Publications. Bonhoeffer, her second opera,
received its world premiere in Houston in May 2000, and a compact disc
recording of that premiere was released in November 2000. In 2002 she was
awarded a Scholar in Residence Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation
for a month-long residency at the Study and Conference Center in Bellagio,
Italy. Her symphonic essay Voyage d’Anima was winner of the
Louisville Orchestra competition in 2003, and she was named the Texas
Commissioned Composer by the Texas Music Teachers Association for
2004-2005. She was also commissioned by the Foundation for Universal
Sacred Music for Pax Vobiscum, a work for chorus, soloists, organ
and bells, premiered in New York City late in the Fall of 2005, and
in June 2006 violinist Rodica Weber premiered her Concerto for Violin
in Romania. Current
projects include Friedenskantate, a cantata for dedication of the
'Friedensfenster' (peace window) in St. Thomas Church (Leipzig), works for
solo flute, crystal bowls and chimes based on Hildegard von Bingen chants,
a set of character pieces for solo piano in collaboration with painters,
and a book about Hildegard von Bingen.
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