External links
- Official website
- Recordings by Amanda Harberg | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos
- 2006 Composer Biographies – Women in Music Festival - Eastman School of Music
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| Birth name | Amanda Harberg |
| Born | May 11, 1973 New York City, US |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation | Composer |
Amanda Harberg (born 1973) is an American composer and pianist of classical music whose work has been performed internationally. [1] She is currently on the composition faculty at the Berklee College of Music, and has been on the faculty for the Juilliard School advancement program as well as the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. [2] Her work has been performed by leading orchestras worldwide like the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Juilliard School, and New England Conservatory. [3]
Notable students include Tito Muñoz. [4] She is notable for orchestral work like her Piccolo Concerto , Clarinet Concerto, and Tuba Sonata, as well as wind band work. [5] [3]
Harberg was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied piano and composition in her early youth, completing her first composition at the age of 5. [1] [6] She earned a BM and Masters in Music from the Juilliard School as the only undergraduate in her class, studying with Stephen Albert, David Diamond, and Robert Beaser, graduating with the Peter Mennin prize and as the only female student. [3] She subsequently received a Fulbright–Hays Fellowship to study in Europe with Frederic Rzewski at the Royal Conservatory of Liege. Harberg also studied piano under György Sándor, a protége of Bela Bartok, and took classes at Columbia University and Barnard College and later received a PhD from Rutgers University under Robert Aldridge. [1]
Harberg's music has been praised by the New York Times as "a sultry excursion into lyricism." Yannick Nézet-Séguin said that Harberg "shrugs off the mundane and explores the unexpected." John Corigliano stated that "she invigorates the brain and touches the soul. I love her work."
She has been commissioned by the Philadephia Orchestra Association, the Juilliard School, New World Symphony, Albany Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Youth Symphony, Dorian Wind Quintet, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Harmonium Choral Society, Network for New Music, and Grand Rapids Symphony. Her music has been performed by Martin Chalifour, Dennis Kim, Mindy Kaufman, John Thorne, Erica Peel, YaoGuang Zhai, Valerie Coleman, Robert Langevin, Julietta Curenton, Adrian Morejon, Benjamin Fingland, and Jessica Myer. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, JoAnn Falletta, David Alan Miller, and David Lockington have conducted her work. [7] Her music has been performed in venues like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Hall, Verizon Hall, and the Symphony Center and has been awarded two New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships, a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship, a MacDowell Colony summer residency, New York Youth Symphony First Music Award, and nine National Flute Association Newly Published Music awards.
Harberg has worked on the faculty for Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts and the Juilliard School's Advancement Program. She is currently on the composition faculty for the Berklee College of Music. She has taught at both the Interlochen Center for the Arts and Luzerne Music Center during the summer. She has had residencies at schools like Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, DePaul University, Arizona State University, Lawrence University, University of Nevada, Coastal Carolina University, and Ohio University. [1] [8] She is published by Schott Music.
| Title | Year | Album | Record label |
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| "Aria from Viola Concerto" (Brett Duebner and the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with violist Linus Lerner) | 2024 | Classical Hidden Gems, Vol.1 | Naxos Records |
| "Court Dances" (Ewa Kowalski and Anna Rutkowska-Schock) | 2024 | HER JOURNEY: flute and piano works by women | Da Vinci Classics |
| "Suite for Wind Quintet" (Aspen Winds) | 2023 | Aspen Winds 2023 | Aspen Winds |
| "Feathers and Sax" (Paul Cohen, Louis Anderson) | 2022 | Soprano Summit | Ravello Records |
| "Court Dances" (Julian Velasco and Winston Choi) | 2022 | As We Are | Cedille Records |
| "Feathers and Wax" (Julietta Curenton) | 2021 | Feathers and Wax | Julietta Curenton |
| "Hall of Ghosts" (Snježana Pavičević) | 2020 | Piccolo Solo Globe Tour | Nota Bene Records |
| "Philly Suite" (Brett Deubner and Caroline Fauchet) | 2017 | Deep Sky Blue | Undici 07 s.a.s. di Maurizio Bignone |
| "Amanda Harberg: Viola Concerto and Elegy - Max Wolpert: Viola Concerto No.1 “Giants”" (Brett Duebner and the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra with violist Linus Lerner) | 2017 | Amanda Harberg: Viola Concerto and Elegy - Max Wolpert: Viola Concerto No.1 “Giants” | Naxos American Classics |
| "Subway" (Stephen Gosling and Blair McMillen) | 2015 | Powerhouse Pianists II | American Modern Recordings |
| "Feathers and Wax" (Eileen Strempel and Sylvie Beaudette) | 2015 | Mythavian | Corbus Du Toit |
| "Tenement Rhapsody" (New York Licorice Ensemble) | 2013 | New American Works for Clarinet Ensemble | NAR Records]l |
| "Birding in the Palisades" (Marni Nixon with the Palisades Virtuosi) | 2012 | New American Masters, Vol.4 | Albany Records |
| "Midnight Songs: Memory" (Colbus Du Toit and Doreen Lee) | 2009 | Feathers and Wax | Centaur Records |
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