Elizabeth Raum

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Elizabeth Raum

| honorific_suffix = SOM

| image =

File:Elizabeth Raum, 2021.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1945|1|13}}

| birth_place = Berlin, New Hampshire

| genre = Classical

| occupation = Composer, musician

| instrument = Oboe

| website = http://elizabethraum.com

}}

Elizabeth Raum {{post-nominals|country=CAN|SOM}} (born 13 January 1945) is a Canadian oboist and composer.

Biography

Elizabeth Raum was born in Berlin, New Hampshire in 1945, but became a Canadian citizen in 1985. She studied oboe performance with Robert Sprenkle at the Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1966.{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Raum |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/elizabeth-raum-emc/ |website=The Canadian Encyclopedia |author= |publisher=Historica Canada |accessdate=21 February 2017}}

In 1985, received a master's degree in composition from the University of Regina after studies with Thomas Schudel.{{cite book |title=Guide to the Euphonium Repertoire: The Euphonium Source Book|first1=Lloyd E. |last1=Bone|first2=Eric|last2=Paull|first3=R. Winston|last3=Morris|year=2007|publisher=Indiana University Press}} She played principal oboe for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for seven years, and later for the Regina Symphony Orchestra in Regina, Saskatchewan. In 2004, she received an honorary doctorate from Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

{{cite book |title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first=Julie Anne|last=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994}} In November 2010, she received the Saskatchewan Order of Merit for her work as a musician and composer.{{cite web|url=http://store.lppublications.ca/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=6 |title=Elizabeth Raum |accessdate=11 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105044703/http://store.lppublications.ca/index.php?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=6 |archivedate=5 November 2012 }}

Works

Elizabeth Raum's works have been performed internationally and broadcast on national media. She is a prolific composer and has produced opera, chamber pieces, choral works, vocal works and ballets. She has also written extensively for film and video.

Works for selected films include:

Saskatchewan River
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Sparkle
Evolution: A Theme with Variations
Prelude to Parting
The Green Man Ballet
Symphony of Youth

Works for the stage include:

Sortilegio (opera)
The Garden of Alice (opera)
Romance of the Gods (opera)

Selected recordings include:

Prairie Alphabet Musical Parade
A Prairie Alphabet
The Legend of Heimdall
Renovated Rhymes
Incantations and Rhymes
Sonata for Piano Four Hands
Requiem for Wounded Knee
Pantheon for violin, horn, and piano
how bodies leave ecstatic marks
Scenes from Andalusia

References

External links

{{official website|http://elizabethraum.com}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055733/http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/raum_elizabeth_1945-.html Elizabeth Raum at The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan]
[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/search?q=Raum+%5Bnée+Hodges%5D%2C+Elizabeth&searchBtn=Search&isQuickSearch=true New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001]

Category:1945 births

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century Canadian classical composers

Category:20th-century American composers

Category:20th-century American women composers

Category:American classical composers

Category:American women classical composers

Category:Canadian oboists

Category:Canadian women film score composers

Category:Musicians from New Hampshire

Category:Women oboists

Category:Eastman School of Music alumni