Karen Tarlow

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Karen Anne Tarlow (born September 19, 1947) [1] is an American composer [2] and music educator [3] who has composed multi-media pieces and many choral works based on Hebrew texts. [4]

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Tarlow was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. [5] She received a BM and MM from the University of Massachusetts, and a DMA from Boston University. She received a Howard Lebow Memorial Scholarship in 1972 and studied in Germany at the University of Freiburg.  In 1978 she won first prize in the Boston University Composition Competition. Her teachers included Philip Bezanson, Wolfgang Fortner, Charles Fussell, Malcolm Peyton, Gardner Read, [6] Robert Stern, Frederick Tillis and David del Tredici. [7]

Tarlow married John Montanari in 1985. [8] She is a retired assistant professor of music theory from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She belongs to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and has received commissions from Da Camera Singers, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the Hampshire Young People's Chorus, and the Picture Book Theatre. [6]

Tarlow's compositions are included on several commercial recordings by Navona Records. [9] Her music is published by ECS Publishing Group, New Valley Press, [7] Subito Music/Seesaw Press, and Treble Clef Music Press. [6] Her works include:

Chamber

Multi-media

Orchestra

Vocal

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  1. ↑ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN   0-8108-1138-3. OCLC   3844725.
  2. ↑ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. ISBN   0-8161-8498-4. OCLC   6815939.
  3. ↑ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN   0-8108-2769-7. OCLC   28889156.
  4. 1 2 "CD Spotlight. Filigree Textures - Contemporary music for orchestra, heard by Patric Standford. 'The orchestration is neatly balanced by an expert hand ...'". www.mvdaily.com. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  5. ↑ Directory of New Music. Crystal Record Company. 1977.
  6. 1 2 3 "Karen A Tarlow - Classical Music Daily". www.classicalmusicdaily.com. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN   0-9617485-2-4. OCLC   16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory. Melrose Press. 1988.
  9. ↑ "Navona Records :: Fine Music". www.navonarecords.com. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  10. 1 2 Boenke, H. Alais (1988). Flute Music by Women Composers: An Annotated Catalog. ABC-CLIO. ISBN   978-0-313-26019-3.
  11. ↑ Sacred Choral Music in Print: Supplement. Musicdata. 1988. ISBN   978-0-88478-022-9.
  12. ↑ Tarlow, Karen A. "Concerto for orchestra - Boston University Libraries". link.bu.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Tarlow, Karen A. : Subito Music Online Store". store.subitomusic.com. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  14. ↑ Anderson, Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary. Boston: G.K. Hall. ISBN   0-8161-1117-0. OCLC   2035024.
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