Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (née le 22 mars 1947) est une éducatrice et compositrice américaine.
Gwyneth Van Anden est née à New York dans une famille Quaker et a grandi à New Canaan, Connecticut. Elle a commencé ses premiers efforts en composition à un âge précoce et a ensuite obtenu des diplômes de BA, MM et DMA en composition musicale de l'Université Brown et de la Hartt School of Music, où elle a étudié avec Arnold Franchetti.
Elle a enseigné la musique pendant quatorze ans à la Hartt School of Music, au Hartford Conservatory et à l'Oberlin College Conservatory, puis a travaillé comme compositrice à plein temps. En 2000, elle a reçu le Lifetime Achievement Award du Vermont Arts Council.
Œuvres
Instrumentales
An American Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
A Vision of Hills, Fantasy Etudes for violin and piano,
New World Dances for piano trio, Craftsbury Trio for piano trio, Touch the Sky for cello and piano, and Vigil for violin and piano
Fantasy Etudes for violin and piano
Five Pieces for Flute and Guitar
Silvermine Suite for flute and guitar
Four American Folk Songs
Four Pieces for Lute
Raise the Roof! for brass quintet
Shaker Tunes for brass quintet
Theme and Variation for flute and piano
Cantos for the End of Summer for piano
Evensong from Cantos for the End of Summer for piano
In Celebration for organ
Rhythms from the North Country for piano
Chœurs
An Hour to Dance for SATB chorus and piano
Harlem Songs for SATB chorus and piano
Love -- By the Water for SATB chorus and piano
Three Days by the Sea for SATB chorus and piano
This Train for SATB chorus
God's Grandeur for SATB chorus on the CD An Hour to Dance
Now Let Us Sing! for SSA chorus, brass quintet, percussion, and piano
How Can I Keep From Singing? for SSA chorus, brass quintet, percussion, and piano
Peace, I Ask Of Thee O River for SSA chorus, brass quintet, percussion, and piano
Songs for Women's Voices for SSA chorus and piano
I Thank You God for SSA chorus and piano
Crossing the Bar for SSA chorus and piano
Hebrides Lullaby for SSA chorus
Let Evening Come for SSA chorus and piano
The Spirit of Women for SSA chorus
Gifts from the Sea for SSA chorus and piano
Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies and Shenendoah
The Christ-Child's Lullaby
Three American Portraits for String Quartet, The Golden Harp for Chorus and String Quartet, and White Horses for SATB Chorus and Piano, and Cheek to Cheek for SATB Chorus and Piano
Hebrides Lullaby
How Can I Keep from Singing?
I Thank You God
My Girls
My Love Walks in Velvet
Rejoice! -- Christmas Songs
River Songs
Songs for Women's Voices g
Mornings Innocent and In Autumn
Sounding Joy
This Train
Mélodies
Song cycles though love be a day, Mornings Innocent, The Sun is Love, and solo piano Semplice and Rhythms from the North Country
As A Branch in May and Weave No Cloak Against Tomorrow
Four American Folk Songs and Songs for Voice and Guitar
maggie and millie and mollie and may
No Ordinary Woman!
though love be a day
I Speak for the Earth
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