Biography
Le Guin was born on July 25,1957;her parents are science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin and historian Charles Le Guin. [2]
She attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music,where she obtained BMus in Cello in 1979. [3] She performed as a cellist for decades; [3] she was part of Artaria String Quartet,Boston Early Music Festival,Concerto Amabile and Smithsonian Concerto Grosso,and she became the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's principal cellist in 1986. [4] She later did graduate studies at University of California,Berkeley,where she obtained an MA in 1992 and PhD in Music in 1997;her doctoral dissertation "As My Works Show Me To Be":Physicality as Compositional Technique in the Instrumental Music of Luigi Boccherini was supervised by Daniel Heartz. [1]
In 1997,she joined the University of California,Los Angeles. [5] She won the 2003 Alfred Einstein Award and 2007 Noah Greenberg Award. [6] In 2005,she published Boccherini's Body ,which focuses on the work of Classical-era composer Luigi Boccherini. [7] She won the 2015 Otto Kinkeldey Award for her book The Tonadilla in Performance (2013), [6] which its publisher called the "first major study of the tonadilla in English". [8] In 2022,she retired from UCLA and became professor emeritus. [5]
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Research in 2019, [3] providing funding for Si Yo Fuera Una Canción,a bilingual podcast about the musical interests of people in Santa Ana,California. [5] She was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. [9]
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