Louis KarchinWinner of the 2012 Andrew Imbrie Award The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced 180 fellowship awards for 2011, including two ACA composers: Louis Karchin, Professor in the GSAS Department of Music at New York University, and Marilyn Shrude, Professor of Music and Chair, Department of Musicology, Composition, and Theory, Bowling Green State University.
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise, the foundation said in its announcement.
Louis Karchin (b. 1951), also the co-director of the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, has a
portfolio of over 60 compositions, appeared as conductor with numerous
performing ensembles, directed several concert series, and overseen the
formation of a graduate program in Music Composition at New York
University. His works have been performed world-wide, and have garnered
distinguished honors, including two awards from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
and Koussevitzky, Barlow, and Fromm commissions.
Most recently, he has completed a new work for the Network for New Music in Philadelphia,
and a new opera based on Charlotte Bronts novel, Jane Eyre. Karchins
music is recorded on New World, Albany and CRI labels, and his compositions are published by C. F. Peters Corporation and the American Composers Alliance.
Marilyn ShrudeChicago-born composer Marilyn Shrude (b. 1946) received degrees from
Alverno College and Northwestern University, where she studied with Alan
Stout and M. William Karlins. Among her more prestigious honors are
those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rockefeller
Foundation, Chamber Music America/ASCAP, Meet the Composer, National
Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council.
She was the first
woman to receive the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards for Orchestral
Music (1984) and the Cleveland Arts Prize for Music (1998). Since 1977
Shrude has been on the faculty of Bowling Green State University and continues to be active
as a pianist and clinician with saxophonist John Sampen. In 2001 she was
named a Distinguished Artist Professor of Music.
For a complete listing of all awards, see the Guggenheim Foundation website list of award recipients.