Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Past News

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame – ACMHF press release
Claudia Schreier & Company premiered a new work, “Wordplay,” a pas de deux set to the first movement of Ellen’s Quintet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass & Piano (2011), at an engagement at the Joyce Theater’s 2017 Ballet Festival. The New York Times, praising the work’s “playful, on-the-nose musicality,” said, “‘Wordplay’ was performed by Unity Phelan and Jared Angle of City Ballet, and it closely resembled something you might see them dance with their home company: a sleek duet to a spiky, rhythmic modernist score (a quintet by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich).” Watch a video of the seven-minute “Wordplay.”
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is Chair of the BMI Student Composer Awards: “5 Female Composers Among 9 Winners in 2017,” NewMusicBox Reports – May 16, 2017
The Tallahassee Democrat reports on the world premiere of Ballet 2017: Celestial Dance for the Tallahassee Youth Orchestra and Tallahassee Ballet – April 28, 2017, and May 4, 2017.
Acclaim for Pas de Trois in The Washington Post, Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach Arts Paper, South Florida Classical Review
“A Jazzy, Joyful Premiere” for Zwilich’s Pas de Trois from the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio – Janelle Gelfand’s janellesnotes, September 20, 2016
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Works In Performance Around the Globe – Press release
“Imagining the Sound: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich” – Interview in Ireland’s Final Note Magazine, July 6, 2015
“Kane and Sleeper provide outstanding advocacy in Zwilich world premiere” – South Florida Classical Review, April 19, 2015
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is interviewed in Robert Raines’s Composition in the Digital World – Conversations with 21st Century American Composers, just published by Oxford University Press.
LA Opus interview: Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Has Found Her Bliss, February 23, 2015
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 1 is No. 1 on Frank J. Oteri’s list of the top American symphonies on NewMusicBox, February 4, 2015.
Sounds Heard–On Shattering, Burning, and Diverting with Passion – NewMusicBox recording review, July 29, 2014
Visit Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s pages on the Theodore Presser Company site for lists of works and awards, recordings, and reviews.
Zwilich’s “Elegy, Soliloquy, and Epilogue” for Solo Flute & String Orchestra To Receive Its World Premiere Performance by Soloist Trudy Kane and the Frost Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Thomas Sleeper – Saturday, April 18, 2015, at Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami – Press release
Watch the 16 semi-finalists of the 2014 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis perform Zwilich’s Fantasy for Solo Violin in their recital programs.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich at 75, Season Highlights – Press release