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Reena Esmail

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Reena Esmail (born 11 February 1983) is an Indian-American music composer of Indian and Western classical music.[1]

Esmail has been commissioned to compose pieces for ensembles including Amherst College Choir and Orchestra,[2] Santa Fe Pro Musica,[3] Conspirare,[4] and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.[5] In 2020, The New York Times included her in a feature entitled, "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin;" fellow composer Andrew Norman selected her work entitled, "Darshan" as performed by Vijay Gupta, calling it "familiar and fresh, intimate and epic, grounded and aloft."[6]

Honors and awards

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  • United States Artist Fellow in Music 2019[1]
  • S&R Foundation Washington Award Grand Prize 2019[7]
  • Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Citizen Artist Fellow 2017-2018[8]
  • Two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2002, 2007)[9]
  • Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012[10]
  • INK Fellow 2011[11]
  • Winner in the MTAC-WLA Chamber Music Competition for piano performance[12]
  • Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar 2011-2012[13]

Works

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Esmail composes for orchestra, solo instrument, chamber ensemble, and voice. Works include Barso Re (2010) for Yale Sur et Veritaal, Yale's Hindi a cappella organization.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b "United States Artists » Reena Esmail".
  2. ^ "Amherst Tuning In: 19th Amendment Commission | Calendar of Events | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu.
  3. ^ "Pro Musica announces 2020-21 Season – Santa Fe Pro Musica".
  4. ^ "The Singing Guitar | Conspirare". 18 September 2020.
  5. ^ Los Angeles Master Chorale. "Reena Esmail". lamasterchorale.org.
  6. ^ Norman, Andrew (September 2, 2020). "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "The S&R Washington Award Winners | S&R Foundation". sandrfoundation.org.
  8. ^ "Citizen Artist Fellows of The Kennedy Center 2017-2018 | Kennedy Center". www.kennedy-center.org.
  9. ^ Sheridanon, Molly (2002-06-04). "To Be Young and Talented: 2002 Morton Gould Young Composer Award Winners | New Music USA". Nmbx.newmusicusa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  10. ^ "Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters".
  11. ^ "Stories, Ideas and Perspectives | 300 Inspirational talks by remarkable people from INK events -". inktalks.com.
  12. ^ The Instrumentalist, Volume 57, Issues 1-6. Association for the Advancement of Instrumental Music. 2002. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  13. ^ "USIEF". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  14. ^ "Music". Retrieved 23 October 2010.
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