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Judith Lang Zaimont (b.1945) is an internationally recognized composer with an impressive catalog of close to 100 works. Her music has been programmed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and other major venues by organizations such as the Connecticut Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (Boston), American Guild of Organists, Florilegium Chamber Choir, Gregg Smith Singers and the Dale Warland Singers. Many works from her catalogue have won prizes. Among her composition awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Debussy Fellowship of the Alliance Française de New York, and grants from the Presser Foundation, the Maryland and Minnesota state arts councils, National Endowment for the Arts and the Minnesota Composers Forum. Her symphonic works have won several major prizes, including the First Prize-Gold Medal in the Gottschalk Centenary International Composition Competition (1970) and the 1995 McCollin International Composers Competition. Born in Memphis, Tennessee (1945) and reared in New York in a musical family, Zaimont began her professional career in her teens as a concert pianist. She studied composition with Hugo Weisgall, Otto Luening and Jack Beeson and orchestration in Paris with André Jolivet, and holds degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York and Columbia University. Ms. Zaimont is also a writer and a distinguished teacher. A former member of the music faculties of Queens College, Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Adelphi University, since 1992 she has held the post of professor of composition at the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis. ADD. Total Time 71:52. This recording is made possible with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Cover Art: Gary Zaimont. Graphic Design: Marnie Hall. © Leonarda Productions, Inc., 1998. All rights reserved. Made in USA.