 Beth
Wiemann was raised in Burlington, VT, studied composition and clarinet at
Oberlin
College and received her PhD in theory and composition from Princeton
University. Her works have been performed in New York, Boston, San Francisco,
Washington DC, the Dartington Festival (UK), the "Spring in Havana 2000
Festival (Cuba), and elsewhere by the ensembles Continuum, Parnassus, Earplay,
ALEA III, singers Paul Hillier, Susan Narucki, D’Anna Fortunato and others.
Her compositions have won awards from the Colorado New Music Festival, American
Women Composers, and Marimolin as well as various arts councils, and this past
year she won the Vocal Composition Prize from the Orvis Foundation. A founding
member of Griffin Music Ensemble, a contemporary music group in Boston, she
premiered many clarinet works and conducted composer-in-the-schools workshops in
the Boston and Worcester public schools.
After teaching at the College of the
Holy Cross and Salisbury State University, she now teaches at the University
of Maine. In addition to clarinet
instruction, her work at UMaine includes teaching Orchestration, Tonal
Counterpoint, Twentieth Century Musical Techniques, Composition, and Graduate
-level theory seminars.
A CD of Wiemann's music, Why Performers Wear Black, will be released on Albany
Records in 2004. Songs of hers appear currently on the Capstone, innova and Americus
record labels.
Wiemann's personal website can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~bwiemann/beffpage_001.htm
beth.wiemann@umit.maine.edu
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