Julia Stilman-Lasansky

{{Short description|Argentine composer}}

Ada Julia Stilman-Lasansky{{Cite book|last1=MacAuslan|first1=Janna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZsJAQAAMAAJ&q=stilman+lasansky+composer|title=Guitar Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog|last2=Aspen|first2=Kristan|date=1997|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-29385-6|language=en}} (February 3, 1935 – March 29, 2007){{Cite web|title=Julia Stilman-Lasansky - Ancestry.com|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Julia+_Stilman-Lasansky&event=1973_greenbelt-prince+george+s-maryland-usa_6636&birth=1935_buenos+aires-buenos+aires-argentina_202044&name_x=p_1&matchAllTermsChecked=false|access-date=2021-11-22|website=www.ancestry.com}} was an Argentine composer{{Cite book|last=Hixon|first=Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Don A. Hennessee|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}} who moved to the United States in 1964.{{Cite book|last=Greene|first=Frank|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w84ndmy9hhkC&dq=stilman+lasansky+composer&pg=PA506|title=Composers on Record: An Index to Biographical Information on 14,000 Composers Whose Music Has Been Recorded|date=1985|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1816-3|language=en}}

Stilman-Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires,{{Cite book|last=Stern|first=Susan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3844725|title=Women composers : a handbook|date=1978|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-8108-1138-3|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=3844725}} where she studied piano with Roberto Castro and composition with Gilardo Gilardi. After moving to the United States, she earned a M.M. and D.M.A. at the University of Maryland, then pursued further studies at Yale University. Stilman-Lasansky’s teachers included Leon Kirchner, Lawrence Moss,{{Cite book|last=Arts|first=National Council on the Arts Task Force on Hispanic American|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NWddAAAAMAAJ&dq=stilman+lasansky+composer&pg=PA92|title=Report of the Task Force on Hispanic American Arts to the National Council on the Arts, August 11, 1979|date=1979|publisher=Task Force.|language=en}} Krysztof Penderecki, and Morton Subotnick.{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VsYAAAAIAAJ&q=strantz+louise|title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers|date=1987|publisher=Books & Music (USA)|isbn=978-0-9617485-0-0|language=en}}

Stilman-Lasansky received a Phi Kappa Phi award in 1972 and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1974. The NEA commissioned her Cantata No. 4. Stilman-Lasansky was a member of the American Society of University Composers.{{Cite web|last=Stilman-Lasansky|first=Julia|date=1977|title=American Society of University Composers Proceedings 1976-77|url=https://library.uta.edu/sci/sites/library.uta.edu.sci/files/pro_1976_1977.pdf|access-date=2021-11-22|website=libraries.uta.edu}} She lived in Maryland for many years, and died in Paris in 2007.

Stilman-Lasansky’s compositions included: