Marilyn Shrude

Marilyn Shrude (born July 6, 1946) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist,{{cite web |url=http://www.sai-national.org/home/ComposersBureau/ShrudeMairlyn/tabid/393/Default.aspx |title=Marilyn Shrude |website=www.sai-national.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127115734/http://sai-national.org/home/ComposersBureau/ShrudeMairlyn/tabid/393/Default.aspx |archive-date=2010-11-27}} and Distinguished Artist Professor of composition at Bowling Green State University, since 1977.[http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/music/directory/40_muct/page88756.html ]{{dead link|date=July 2021}}[https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000046571 Grove Music Online]; retrieved 1 May 2020.

Life

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Shrude graduated from Alverno College and Northwestern University. Her composition instructors include Alan Stout and M. William Karlins.{{cite web|url=http://www.pytheasmusic.org/shrude.html|title=Marilyn Shrude at Pytheas ~ Contemporary, Modern, New, Non-Pop Art Music Composers, Ensembles & Resources|website=www.pytheasmusic.org|accessdate=Jul 11, 2021}}

She is the founder and former director of the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music and co-directs the Annual New Music & Art Festival. She served as visiting professor of music at Indiana University (Bloomington) in the fall of 1998, Heidelberg College (spring 2001), and Oberlin College (spring 2004), and has also taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp (1990–1997).

Her scores are published by American Composers Alliance,{{cite web|url=https://composers.com/composers/marilyn-shrude|title=Marilyn Shrude|website=American Composers Alliance|date=January 2019 |accessdate=Jul 11, 2021}} Éditions Henry Lemoine (Paris), Neue Musik Verlag Berlin, Southern Music, and Thomas House. Her music has been recorded by the New World, Albany, EROL, Liscio, FoxGlove, MMC, Capstone, Orion, Centaur, Neuma, Access, and Ohio Brassworks labels.

Her husband is the classical saxophonist John Sampen, and her daughter the classical/contemporary violinist Maria Sampen, both of whom have performed many of her works. Her son, producer, actor and rock guitarist, is David Sampen.

Awards

She is the winner of a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (third place, 1984) and a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.bgsu.edu/musical-arts/faculty-and-staff/marilyn-shrude.html|title=Marilyn Shrude|website=Bowling Green State University|accessdate=Jul 11, 2021}}

She won a 1998 Cleveland Arts Prize for Music.{{cite web|url=http://clevelandartsprize.org/awardees/marilyn_shrude.html|title=Marilyn Shrude|website=clevelandartsprize.org|accessdate=Jul 11, 2021}}

She is also a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.{{cite web|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/17113-marilyn-shrude |title=Marilyn Shrude - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |accessdate=2011-06-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416022206/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17113-marilyn-shrude |archivedate=2011-04-16 }}

References

External links

[http://www.marilynshrude.com/ Marilyn Shrude official site]
{{YouTube|hAvRPu5Q3Qo|MARILYN SHRUDE: "A Virtual Reality" for Orchestra (2003)}}
[http://acafestival.blogspot.com/2008/03/marilyn-shrude.html ACA Festival of American Music 2008: Marilyn Shrude]
[http://www.bruceduffie.com/shrude.html Interview with Marilyn Shrude], March 14, 2001

Category:1946 births

Category:20th-century American pianists

Category:20th-century American women pianists

Category:20th-century American classical composers

Category:21st-century American women pianists

Category:21st-century American classical composers

Category:21st-century American classical pianists

Category:Alverno College alumni

Category:American women classical composers

Category:American women classical pianists

Category:Bienen School of Music alumni

Category:Bowling Green State University faculty