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For the Canadian new media artist, see Erin Gee (artist).

Erin Elizabeth Gee (born San Luis Obispo, California 1974) is an American composer and performer. Among the fellowships she has held are the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute Fellow,[1] and among the awards she was won for her compositions are the Rome Prize and the first prize of the International Rostrum of Composers. She was on the faculty of the University of Illinois in Urbana as Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Brandeis University.

Education

In 1997 she 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.[2] In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria [3] where she studied with Beat Furrer.

Career

With her brother Colin Gee, she performed at the Whitney Museum of Art[4][5] and was a resident at the Montalvo Arts Center. She won the 2008 Rome Prize and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009. From 2009-2011, she was a Senior Lecturer in theory and composition at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.[6][7] She is now an Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a position she began in the fall semester of 2012.[8] In 2015, she received the Charles Ives Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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".[9]

The Blek puzzle video game app contains excerpts of Erin Gee.

Discography

Work(s) Label/Performer/CD Year
Mouthpiece XXVII Hoehenrausch [10] Ensemble NOVA ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation 2017
Mouthpiece XXIV Ryan Muncy ISM 2016
"Mouthpieces" (portrait CD) col legno label 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

Works

  • 2016 "Mouthpiece 30" (voice solo) 10 min.
  • 2016 "Mouthpiece 29" (voice, van, via, kb)
  • 2016 "Mouthpiece 28" (soprano and small ensemble) 8 min.
  • 2016 "Mouthpiece XIXc" (soprano and ensemble) 10 min.
  • 2016 "Mouthpiece XXVII" (6 male voices) 3 min.
  • 2016 "Mouthpiece XVI" (voice solo) 3 min.
  • 2015 "Mouthpiece XXV" (B fl, B cl, elec. gtr) 10 min.
  • 2015 "Mouthpiece XXIV" (tenor sax, perc.) 8 min.
  • 2014 "Mouthpiece XXII" (String Quartet) 10 min. Written for the Arditti Quartet
  • 2014 "Mouthpiece XIXb" (soprano and ensemble) 8 min.
  • 2013 "Mouthpiece XX: Mathilde of Loci Part 2" (voice and orchestra) 13 min. premiered
  • 2013 "Mouthpiece XIX" (tenor, van, tan, pno) 7 min.
  • 2013 "Mouthpiece XVIII" (bass fl) 3 min.
  • 2012 "...in the first place..." (fixed media) 15 min.
  • 2012 "Mouthpiece XVI" (chamber ensemble) 7 min.
  • 2011 "Mouthpiece XV" (voice solo) 5 min.
  • 2010 "Mouthpiece XIV" (piano) 7 min.
  • 2009 SLEEP, an opera, premiered Zürich Opera House
  • 2009 "Mouthpiece XIII: Mathilde of Loci Part 1 (voice and orchestra) 8 min.
  • 2009 "Mouthpiece XII" (voice and electric chamber ensemble) 7 min.
  • 2009 "Mouthpiece XI" (voice and large ensemble) 10 min.
  • 2008 "Mouthpiece X" (voice and large ensemble) 17 min.
  • 2008 "Sawari Mouthpiece" (koto) 10 min.
  • 2008 "Sawari Guchi - the Spinning Mouthpiece" (koto) 7 min.
  • 2007 "4 Variations on a Mouthpiece" (piano) 7 min.
  • 2007 "Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter" (Bass Fl, Clar, Viola, Contrabass, Perc) 9 min.
  • 2006 "Mouthpiece IX" (voice and orchestra) 16 min.
  • 2006 "Mouthpiece IV for Choir" (choir) 6 min.
  • 2006 "Mouthpiece VII for Choir" (choir) 4 min.
  • 2006 "Yamaguchi Mouthpieces for Choir" (choir) 7 min.
  • 2006 "Mouthpiece Topology" (vocal ensemble) 9 min.
  • 2005 "Akiguchi Mouthpieces" (solo voice) 15 min.
  • 2005 "Yamaguchi Mouthpieces" (solo voice) 9 min.
  • 2005 "Mouthpiece VIII" (voice and chamber ensemble) 15 min.
  • 2004 "Mouthpiece VII" (voice and chamber ensemble] 8 min.
  • 2004 music for "Dakota" (voice and elec.) 40 min.
  • 2004 "Mouthpiece VI" (voice and chamber ensemble) 6 min.
  • 2004 "Mouthpiece V" (voice and chamber ensemble) 6 min.
  • 2004 "Mouthpiece IV" (voice solo) 3 min.
  • 2003 "Mouthpiece III" (ensemble) 15 min.
  • 2002 "Mouthpiece remix" (elect. acoustic) 3.5 min.
  • 2002 "Quill.h." (vln,vla) 13 min
  • 2002 "Mouthpiece II" (voice solo) 5.5 min.
  • 2001 "Das fliegende Untertasse und der sterbende Baum" (percussion solo) 7.5 min.
  • 2001 "formmask" (amplified fl, cello) 8 min.
  • 2001 "Crim" (elec. acoustic) 3 min.
  • 2000 "The left wing of inhale no. 37" (tpt, perc) 6 min.
  • 2000 "Mouthpiece I" (voice solo) 2 min.
  • 1999/2003 "Sift" (a) (cl., alt. sax., cell) 4 min; (b) (clar, piano, cello) 4 min [11]

Selected awards and grants

  • 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Charles Ives Fellowship Recipient ( Charles Ives Prize )
  • 2010 Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York City.
  • 2009 Grant, Austrian Ministry for Culture.
  • 2009 Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 2009 Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California.
  • 2008 Composition Prize, City of Graz, Austria.
  • 2008 Featured Composer, 4020 Festival, Linz, Austria.
  • 2007 Rome Prize, The American Academy in Rome, Italy.
  • 2007 International Rostrum of Composers “Selected Piece” (First Prize), Paris, France.
  • 2007 Gianni Bergamo Prize, Tage für Neue Musik, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • 2007 Teatro Minimo Prize (First Round), Zurich Opera House, Switzerland.
  • 2006 Meet the Composer Grant.
  • 2006 SCI/ASCAP National Student Competition, 3rd Prize.
  • 2005 Look & Listen Festival Prize, New York, New York.
  • 2005 Jerome Foundation Commissioning Grant.
  • 2005 Publicity Prize 2005 for composition, SKE Fond, Vienna, Austria.
  • 2005 Astral Career Grant, NFAA.
  • 2005 Resident Composer, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan.
  • 2004 Impuls Composition Prize, Graz, Austria.

References

  1. ^ http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010egee.aspx
  2. ^ "Erin Gee: Composer and UI Grad Erin Gee Wins the Rome Prize", The Iowa Source, JAMES MOORE, June 2007
  3. ^ Erin Gee resume, URL=http://erin-gee.com/eringee.swf
  4. ^ http://www.americancomposers.org/rel20091030.html
  5. ^ http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010egee.aspx
  6. ^ "ERIN GEE", MONTALVO ARTS CENTER
  7. ^ Erin Gee biography |URL=http://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/stipendium/stipendiaten/erin-gee~pe1927/
  8. ^ http://www.music.illinois.edu/faculty/erin-gee
  9. ^ "Songs without words", Harvard Gazette, Colleen Walsh, February 18, 2010
  10. ^ https://music.illinois.edu/news/ui-composer-erin-gee-featured-new-recording-project
  11. ^ "Erin Gee", American Composer's Forum

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