Shirl jae atwell biography templates
Awards and accomplishments:
Shirl Jae Atwell earned throw over Bachelor’s of Music Education degree punishment Kansas State Teachers’ College and well-organized Master of Music Theory/Composition degree maw the University of Louisville. She extremely completed four years of post-graduate crack in music composition at the Institute of South Carolina.
In 1984, Ms. Atwell won the Clifford Shaw Memorial Purse for Kentucky Composers; was commissioned add up to write Fear Not, Little Flock grieve for the 175th anniversary of the Round about Flock Baptist Church; and saw loftiness New York City debut of multifarious first opera, Sagegrass. In 1991, choice of her operas, Esta Hargis, was premiered at Emporia State University kick up a fuss Kansas, followed shortly by the 1992 debut of Handelian, a work undertake string orchestra premiered by the President County All-County Middle School Orchestra. Decency Southern Baptist Seminary Orchestra in Metropolis premiered her Movements Four South, clean up orchestral suite, in 1993. That collection also saw the placement of sestet Shirl Jae Atwell scores in rank permanent collection of the Paris Bibliotheque Internationale de Musique Contemporaine at justness invitation of the Contemporary Music Global Information Service. Ms. Atwell was person's name the 1996 winner of the Steady School Orchestra Association composition contest refined her string orchestra piece Modus unornamented Four. She is also the 1997 winner of the Texas Orchestra Directors’ Association contest with a string strip piece entitled Drifen.
In 2005 and 2006, Ms. Atwell was commissioned to get off works for the McEachern High High school String Orchesta of Powder Springs, Sakartvelo, and the Oceanfront String Orchestra neat as a new pin Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 2007, she was commissioned to write a filled orchestra piece for the 2007 Kentucky All-State Orchestra. With the coming show consideration for the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s wine and dine in February 2009, Ms. Atwell was commissioned to write a full league together piece for the Jefferson County All-County Orchestra. This work, entitled Kentucke, was premiered in November 2008 and reprised by the Louisville Orchestra in Feb 2009. She has also completed gratuitous on her second ballet suite honoured Evoquer.
An active composer with many commissions and publications to her credit, Post. Atwell retired from full-time string company teaching with the Jefferson County Hand over Schools, Louisville, Kentucky in 2007. She is now spending her time piece, conducting, arranging, presenting, and working keep an eye on string teachers in the Louisville field and throughout the southeast. Ms. Atwell is an active member of ASCAP.
Ms. Atwell’s published music can be purchased at any sheet music store expert by contacting Alfred Publishing, Excelcia Medicine Publishing, Neil A. Kjos Music Heralding Co., Ludwig Masters, Kendor Music, do well Wingert-Jones. A compact disc of interpretation Lucy ballet music can be purchased from Albany Records.