Joanne Metcalf

Joanne Metcalf
Born	1958 (age 66–67)
Occupation	Composer

Joanne Metcalf (born 1958) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Best known for her choral music, she has taught music composition at Lawrence University since 2001.

Life and career

Joanne Metcalf was born in 1958 and studied music composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara (BA, 1982). ^{[1] [‡ 1]} While studying at Duke University with Stephen Jaffe and Scott Lindroth (MM, 1993), she met Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, then a guest at Duke. ^{[1] [‡ 2]} Inspired by "whatever it was that made [Andriessen's] music so fresh and energizing", Metcalf studied with him for at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague through a Fulbright scholarship. ^{[‡ 2]} She received a PhD from Duke, before teaching composition at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin from to 2001 to 2025. ^{[1] [‡ 1]}

Her Il nome del bel fior (1998), based on the vision of Mary in Canto XXIII of Dante‘s Paradiso, was composed for, and recorded by, the Hilliard Ensemble and Singer Pur. ^[2]

Recordings

Recordings of compositions by Joanne Metcalf

Year	Album	Featured work(s)	Performers	Label
1996	A Hilliard Songbook	Music for the Star of the Sea	Hilliard Ensemble	ECM Records 453 259-2 [3]
2004	Choral Works	Il nome del bel fior	Singer Pur	Oehms Classics OC354 [4]
2006	Das Hohelied der Liebe	Ego dilecto meo	Singer Pur	Oehms Classics OC803 [5]
2010	Carmina Celtica	Shining Light	Canty	Linn Records CKD378 [6]
2015	Mary Star of the Sea	Music for The Star of the Sea Il nome del bel fior (Parts IV–V)	Gothic Voices	Linn Records CKD541 [7]
2017	The Best of Singer Pur	Il nome del bel fior	Singer Pur	Oehms Classics OC1869 [8]
2018	Lilith	Darkening of the Light	Lilith	National Sawdust Tracks [9]
2019	Horizons	It Is Enough	Singer Pur	Oehms Classics OC1714 [10]
2021	Among Whirlwinds	Among Dark Whirlwinds Gold and Thorns, Fire and Ice	Singer Pur	Oehms Classics OC1723 [11]
2022	New Suns	The Sea's Wash in the Hollow of the Heart	Variant 6	Open G Records 195269 164461 [12]
2024	Dreamspace	The Undreaming	Michael Mizrahi	Sono Luminus DSL-92276 [13]

References

Citations

Primary

1. "Joanne Metcalf". Lawrence University. Archived from the original on September 6, 2025. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
2. Shrude, Marilyn (May 1, 2002). "Joanne Metcalf". New Music USA . Retrieved November 8, 2025.

Secondary

1. ILWC Journal 1994.
2. Singer Pur featuring The Hilliard Ensemble: Rihm Sciarrino Moody Metcalf
3. Fitch, Fabrice (1997). "A Hilliard Songbook" . Gramophone . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
4. "Choral Works: Rihm, Sciarrino, Moody, Metcalf". Naxos . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
5. "The Song of Songs". Naxos . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
6. Kenyon, Nicholas (September 10, 2010). "Carmina Celticaa: Medieval and contemporary spiritual songs, Canty/Tavener, William Taylor (harp)". The Guardian . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
7. Higginson, Gary (2015). "Mary, Star of the Sea". MusicWeb International. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
8. "The Best of Singer Pur". Naxos . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
9. "Lilith". WorldCat . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
10. "Vocal Ensemble Music". Naxos . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
11. "Vocal Ensemble Concert". Naxos . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
12. Rosenberg, Donald (2022). "Variant 6: New Suns" . Gramophone . Retrieved November 8, 2025.
13. "Piano Recital: Mizrahi, Michael". Naxos . Retrieved November 8, 2025.

Sources

• Goursaud, Christian (January 2020). "Playing with historical time" . Early Music . 48 (1): 136–139. doi:10.1093/em/caaa014.(subscription required)
• International League of Women Composers (1994). "1993 Awards Annouced". ILWC Journal (1): 32, 47. [32]: "First Prize: Joanne Metcalf is from Los Angeles. In 1993 she received an M.A. in composition from Duke University, where her teacher was Scott Lindroth. She studied with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag. She currently teaches composition at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin."
• Rickards, Guy (January 1997). "Rautavaara … Metcalf: Music for the Star of the Sea. … Casken: Sharp Thorne by The Hilliard Ensemble, Barry Guy, Morton Feldman, Ivan Moody, Hellawell, Paul Robinson, Tormis, MacMillan, Liddle, Joanne Metcalf, Finnissy, Casken, Pärt". Tempo (199): 48–50. JSTOR   945541.

External links

• Official website
• Joanne Metcalf discography at Discogs