Eileen Hutchins
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Ruth Lomon
A native of Montreal, Canada, Ruth Lomon is a composer of works for orchestra, chorus, chamber music, and solo repertoire as well as multimedia works. She was had commissions from the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The New Mexico Arts Division, ALEA III, Dinosaur Annex and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. She has had grants from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and the Thanks be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation, residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, where she received the Norton Foundation Award. She was a Bunting fellow in 1995-96.
The CD of Songs of Remembrance, a song cycle based on poetry of the Holocaust, was released by Composer Recordings Inc. (CRI) last April. Ruth continues her work on the oratorio, WITNESSES, which is an expansion, with added choruses and orchestration, of Songs of Remembrance, and continues her poetry search at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C. with the aid of a Research Award from the Hadassah International Research Institute. Last November the Boston Secession Chorus, under the direction of Jane Ring Frank, premiered the first chorus, Wir Waisen, based on a poem of Nelly Sachs.
Ruth has had orchestral works recorded by the Warsaw National Philharmonic (Terra Incognita) and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestras (Bassoon Concerto). Her piano work, Five Ceremonial Masks from the Yeibichi Night Chants, will be released this fall by Composers Recording Society (CRS). She is published by Arsis Press, Dorn Publications, Zimbel Press and the League-ISCM in Boston's Extraordinary Measures.
Ruth spent the last semester in Nanjing, China where she was interviewed on Educational TV (JETV) for a live audience show called Dialogue with host Chang Ming. The discussion centered around a performance of The Butterfly, one of the songs from the Holocaust song cycle.
