Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist, and conductor. Her work has been performed worldwide. Since gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem that structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has written a variety of instrumental works, including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman—something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man—the Island Prelude, five string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was the pianist and a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, which commissioned and premiered many of her early works, including her widely performed Petroushskates. The New Yorker has called her "one of the most successful woman composers of all time".
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Works
- 1920/2019
- Big Sky
- Black Topaz
- Celebration Fanfare from Stepping Stones
- Chamber Dance
- Clocks
- Concerto for Clarinet
- Concerto for Orchestra
- Concerto for Orchestra: Part I
- Concerto for Orchestra: Part II
- Copperwave
- DNA
- Duets for Orchestra
- Dumbarton Quintet
- Fanfare no. 1 for the Uncommon Woman
- Fanfare no. 2 for the Uncommon Woman
- Fanfare no. 3 for the Uncommon Woman
- Fanfare no. 4 for the Uncommon Woman
- Fanfare no. 5 for the Uncommon Woman
- Hexachords
- In Memory
- Island Prelude
- Island Rhythms
- Ivory and Ebony
- Made in America
- Music for Cello and Orchestra
- Night Fields
- No Longer Very Clear
- No Longer Very Clear: Holding a Daisy
- No Longer Very Clear: Or like a…an Engine
- No Longer Very Clear: Throbbing Still
- No Longer Very Clear: Vast Antique Cubes
- Petroushskates
- Piano Concerto
- Platinum Spirals
- Sequoia
- Silver Ladders
- Small
- Snow Dreams
- Stepping Stones: a ballet
- Still/Rapids
- Still/Rapids: I. Still
- Still/Rapids: II. Rapids
- Strike Zones
- String Quartet no. 3 "Incandescent"
- String Quartet no. 4 "Angels"
- String Quartet no. 5 "White Water"
- Stroke
- Tambor
- Trio Cavany
- Très lent (In memoriam Olivier Messiaen)
- Turning Points
- Violin Concerto
- White Granite
- Wild Purple