Erin Elizabeth Gee (born 1974) (born San Luis Obispo, California) is an American composer and vocalist. Among the fellowships she has held are the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute Fellowships,[1] and among the awards she has won for her compositions are the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Rome Prize and the first prize of the International Rostrum of Composers.[2] She was on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana as Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory and is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Brandeis University.
Education
editIn 1997 Gee received her B.M. with honors and highest distinction in Piano Performance from the University of Iowa; there she also earned an M.A. in composition in 2002.[3] In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria [4] where she studied musical composition with Beat Furrer.[5]
Career
editWith her brother Colin Gee, she performed at the Whitney Museum of Art[6][1] and was a resident at the Montalvo Arts Center. She won the 2008 Rome Prize and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009. From 2010-2011, she was a fellow in composition at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.[7][8] In 2015, she received the Charles Ives Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[9] The puzzle video game app Blek contains excerpts of Erin Gee's work.[10] Gee is one of the Kronos Quartet 50 for the Future composers.[11]
A reviewer from the Harvard Gazette described a performance of Gee's work as "a young woman with a microphone in each hand performing a curious and captivating symphony of sound and song".[12]
Selected works
edit| Work | Premiere/Award | Year written |
|---|---|---|
| Mouthpiece 34 | Premiered at the Centre Pompidou in the “Neurons” Exhibit,[13] Paris, France | 2019 |
| Mouthpiece 33 | Written for the Argento Ensemble.
Premiered at Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY[14] |
2019 |
| Mouthpiece 32 | Commissioned by Chamber Music America for the Ensemble Dal Niente[15] | 2018 |
| Mouthpiece 31 | Commissioned by Kronos Quartet[16] | 2017 |
| Mouthpiece 30 | Commissioned by and written for Frauke Aulbert, voice
Premiered at the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany |
2017 |
| Mouthpiece 29 | Commissioned by and premiered at the Tanglewood Music Center[17][18] | 2016 |
| Mouthpiece 28 | Commissioned and premiered by the TAK ensemble
Premiered at the Resonant Bodies Festival[19] |
2016 |
| Mouthpiece XIXc | Premiered at the NienteForte Festival by the ECCE Ensemble | 2016 |
| Mouthpiece XXVII | Commissioned by Musik Protokoll in Steirischer Herbst, Graz Austria.
Premiered and recorded by Ensemble NOVA |
2016 |
| Mouthpiece XXVI | Commissioned by the Humanities Center at DePaul University | 2016 |
| Mouthpiece XXIV | Commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble
Premiered by Ryan Muncy and Ross Karre at the Abrons Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. |
2015 |
| Mouthpiece XXI | Commissioned by Musikprotokoll, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Premiered by the Arditti Quartet[20] Performed by the JACK Quartet at the Lucerne Festival, Switzerland, the Banff Centre, Canada (2017)[21] |
2014 |
| Mouthpiece XIX | Commissioned by the Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna Austria
Premiered at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, Austria |
2013/14 |
| Mouthpiece XX | Commissioned by the ORF and premiered by the RSO Wien at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Grosse Saal
Conducted by Cornelius Meister Erin Gee, voice Colin Gee, actor/dramaturge Video by Patrick Kelly |
2013 |
| “…In the first place…” | Music for Colin Gee’s Dance film[22] commissioned by and premiered at EMPAC, Troy, NY | 2012 |
| Mouthpiece XVI | Commissioned by Akademie Schloss Solitude
Premiered by the Ascolta Ensemble at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. |
2012 |
| Mouthpiece XIV | Commissioned by the Iowa Piano Teacher’s Association.
Written for and premiered by Réne Lecuona. |
2010 |
| Mouthpiece XIII | Commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and LVMH.
Premiered at Zankel Hall in Carnegie Hall, New York City. Erin Gee, voice |
2009 |
| Mouthpiece XII | Premiered by Repertorio Zero at the Konzerthaus Zürich in the Tage für Neue Musik, Zürich.
Erin Gee, voice [26] |
2009 |
| Mouthpiece XI | Commissioned by the LA Philharmonic New Music Group
Premiered at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen |
2009 |
| SLEEP: an opera | Premiered at the Zurich Opera House, 2009.
Erin Gee, voice. Morgan Moody,[29] Bass Baritone Teatro Minimo Prize |
2008 |
| Sawari Mouthpiece for Koto and Voice | Premiered at the 4020 Festival in Linz, Austria | 2008 |
| Mouthpiece X | Premiered at the Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Witten, Germany in 2009 by Klangforum Wien
Erin Gee, voice[30] CD Released on Col Legno 2014 |
2008 |
| Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter | Premiered by Ensemble Recherche
Gianni Bergamo Prize[31] (1st Round) |
2007 |
| Mouthpiece IX | Commissioned by Musik Protokoll, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria and the Klangspuren Festival.
Premiered at the Klangspuren Festival by the RSO Wien. Erin Gee, voice. Martyn Brabbins, conductor. Awarded the Rostrum of Composers Prize, Paris, France – 2007[32] CD Released on Col Legno |
2006 |
| Mouthpiece Topology | Premiered by the Latvian Radio Choir
Premiered at the Klangspuren Festival, Klagenfurt, Austria |
2006 |
| Mouthpiece VIII | Commissioned by MozartJahr 2006
Premiered at the ORF Vienna, Austria. Erin Gee, voice |
2006 |
| Yamaguchi Mouthpieces | Premiered at the Akiyoshidai International Art Viliage. Erin Gee, voice
Look and Listen Festival Prize,[33] New York City |
2005 |
| Mouthpiece VII | Premiered by Klangforum Wien
impuls Festival Prize,[34] Graz, Austria Conducted by Johannes Kalitzke. Erin Gee, voice |
2004 |
| Mouthpiece VI | Premiered by Klangforum Wien Erin Gee, voice | 2004 |
| Mouthpiece III | Premiered by Klangforum Wien | 2002 |
| Mouthpiece Remix | Premiered at the Institute for Electronic Music (IEM), Graz, Austria | 2003 |
| Mouthpiece II | Premiered at the MATA Festival 2002 Erin Gee, voice | 2002 |
| Mouthpiece I | Erin Gee, voice | 2001 |
Discography
edit| Work(s) | Label/Performer/CD | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Howl, That Was Also A Prayer
Three Scenes from the Opera, SLEEP |
Ekemeles Ensemble | 2020 |
| Oor Mouthpiece XXVIII | TAK Ensemble | 2019 |
| Mouthpiece XXVII | Hoehenrausch [35] Ensemble NOVA ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation | 2017 |
| Mouthpiece XXIV | Ryan Muncy ISM | 2016 |
| "Mouthpieces" (portrait CD) | col legno label Klangforum Wien PHACE Ensemble | 2014 |
| Yamaguchi Mouthpiece Part 3 | The Believer Magazine | 2011 |
| Mouthpiece IX (parallel version) | 102 Masterpieces: ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra miniatures | 2010 |
| Akiguchi Mouthpiece | Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik | 2008 |
| Yamaguchi Mouthpiece | Entspannte Gleichzeitigkeit - Hammer Records | 2006 |
Selected awards and grants
edit- 2022 Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters[36]
- 2019 Koussevitsky Award[37]
- 2017 Fromm Foundation Commission[38]
- 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Charles Ives Fellowship Recipient ( Charles Ives Prize )
- 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York City.
- 2007 Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome, Italy.[3]
- 2007 International Rostrum of Composers “Selected Piece” (First Prize), Paris, France.
- 2007 Teatro Minimo Prize [6] (first round), Zurich Opera House
References
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- ^ "Erin Gee resume". 2014-12-21. Archived from the original on 2014-12-21.
- ^ "Montalvo Arts Center - Erin Gee". montalvoarts.org. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
In Austria and Germany, she studied composition with Beat Furrer, Mathias Spahlinger, Chaya Czernowin, Richard Barrett and Steve Takasugi.
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- ^ "Songs without words", Harvard Gazette, Colleen Walsh, February 18, 2010
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- ^ "e | Chamber Music America". www.chamber-music.org. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
- ^ "Erin Gee one of Kronos' Fifty for the Future | Music at Illinois". music.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
- ^ "Erin Gee Commission a Highlight at Tanglewood | Music at Illinois". music.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
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- ^ "musikprotokoll 2014 musikprotokoll.orf.at Im Steirischen Herbst Oktober 2014, Graz". docplayer.org. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "2016-2017 Full Season". JACK Quartet. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ Janairo, Michael (2011-08-01). "EMPAC announces Dance Movies commissions". Arts Talk. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ Tommasini, Anthony (2009-12-01). "Navajo, Jesuit and Jazz for Orchestra". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ Dodes, Rachel (2009-11-17). "Composer Erin Gee Creates "Non-Semantic" Opera for LVMH". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "Colin Gee/Erin Gee". whitney.org. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ RepertorioZero - Erin Gee, Mouthpiece XII (live), archived from the original on 2021-12-15, retrieved 2021-09-25
- ^ "Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen under the L.A. Philharmonic Green Umbrella for the last time". LA Times Blogs - Culture Monster. 2009-04-08. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "The Los Angeles Philharmonic Celebrates Salonen As He Concludes His Tenure As Music Director With Five World Premieres, Including His Own Violin Concerto, and a Final Weekend of Works by Stravinsky". Hollywood Bowl. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "Morgan Moody — People — Royal Opera House". www.roh.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "Wittener Tage fur neue Kammermusik 2008". www.wittenertage.de. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
- ^ "Competition 2007 – Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award". Retrieved 2021-09-25.
- ^ "International Rostrum of Composers - International Music Council". www.imc-cim.org. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
- ^ "Past Winners | Look + Listen". Retrieved 2021-09-25.
- ^ "Impuls: Competition before 2011". www.impuls.cc. Archived from the original on 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
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- ^ "2022 Music Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 2023-03-17.
- ^ "Library's Koussevitzky Foundation Awards 2019 Music Commissions". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-09-25.
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External links
edit- Artist's website
- Erin Gee at IMDB
- Erin Gee at AllMusic