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Susan Cohn Lackman (born 1948) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She is a professor of music theory and composition at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida, where she has taught classes in harmony, counterpoint, Jewish music, music business, arts administration, Russian music, music criticism, and music history.
Lackman was born on 1 July 1948 in Qingdao in China. [1] She was the daughter of an officer in the U.S. Navy, from an early age she traveled the world, absorbing music and art from many cultures. She holds a B.Mus.Ed. degree from Temple University, an M.A. from The American University, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. [1]
She is active in arts management, and received an M.B.A. from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins. She has served as general manager of WPRK-FM, treasurer of the International Alliance for Women in Music, and executive director and board of directors chair of Florida's Festival of Orchestras. In 2010 she was named director of the composers bureau for Sigma Alpha Iota.
Winter Park is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 29,795 according to the 2020 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins is an American former jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called "the greatest living improviser".
Rollins College is a private college in Winter Park, Florida. It was founded in November 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several master's programs. It is Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution.
The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Elizabeth Brown Larsen is a contemporary American classical composer. Along with composer Stephen Paulus, she is a co-founder of the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum.
John Meyer Tiedtke was an American farmer, professor, college dean, businessman and philanthropist from Central Florida. He was the scion of a family that made its wealth in Toledo, Ohio, being the founders of the grocery and department store Tiedtke's. He was a benefactor to individuals and the community, even as he did it in a quiet and unassuming manner.
Zoe Zeniodi is a conductor from Greece. She is the first woman conductor to ever perform with Opera Southwest. She has been selected by the Dallas Opera for the residency of the Institute of Women Conductors, 2016. She is the artistic and music director of the Broward Symphony Orchestra and the "Momentum" Athens Chamber Orchestra, the associate music director and conductor of the Festival of the Aegean and the artistic advisor of the Alhambra Orchestra.
Frost School of Music is the music school at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. From 1926 to 2003, it was known as University of Miami School of Music.
Lawrence Kenneth Moss was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was born in Los Angeles.
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) is an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States. Founded in 1907 as the Music Supervisors National Conference (MSNC), the organization was known from 1934 to 1998 as the Music Educators National Conference. From 1998 to 2011 it was known as "MENC: The National Association for Music Education." On September 1, 2011, the organization changed its acronym from MENC to NAfME. On March 8, 2012, the organization's name legally became National Association for Music Education, using the acronym "NAfME". It has approximately 45,000 members, and NAfME's headquarters are located in Reston, Virginia.
Janika Vandervelde is an American composer, pianist, and music educator. Her work, notable for its feminist and ecological themes, has won numerous awards. Known for her music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles and the stage, she also teaches composition.
Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard, daughter of John Edward and Mary (MacArthur) Rittenhouse, was a literary critic, compiler of anthologies, and poet.
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was a Filipino composer and pianist. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.
Wanda Brister is an American operatic mezzo-soprano and voice teacher.
Women in music include women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists, and in other musical professions. Also, it describes music movements, events and genres related to women, women's issues, and feminism.
Frances Bartlett Kinne was an American author, academic administrator, and musician. She was the first female university president to hold that position in the state of Florida, and the second in the United States.
Helen L. Weiss was an American composer, pianist, and choir director.
Susan "Daisy" Hart Dyer was an American composer, musician, poet, and music educator. Her best known work is the "Florida Night Song", the second movement from her An Outlandish Suite for violin and piano.