Ann Callaway facts for kids
Ann Marie Callaway is an American composer. She was born on October 28, 1949. A composer is someone who writes music. Ann Marie Callaway's music has been played all over the United States.
Life and Career
Ann Marie Callaway was born in Washington, D.C. She grew up in a place called Langley Park, Maryland. She started learning music in Baltimore. Later, she studied music at several universities. These included Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. She earned a special music degree from Columbia in 1991.
Her musical pieces have been heard widely in the U.S. A documentary about her was even made by Swedish Radio. Ann Marie Callaway has received many important awards. One of these is a Guggenheim Fellowship. This is a special award given to talented people in arts and sciences. She also received money from the National Endowment for the Arts. This organization supports artists in America.
She has also been an artist-in-residence at different places. These places, like Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, let artists live and work there. It gives them time to create new things. She also received the Fred Waring Award and the Miriam Gideon Prize.
In 1984, Ann Marie Callaway helped start a group called the New York Women Composers, Inc.. This group helps women who write music. It supports them through lists of their works, events, and grants.
Recordings
Ann Marie Callaway's music has been recorded on several albums. Here are some of them:
- The Gregg Smith Singers recorded Alleluia vidimus stellam (1980). This piece is a setting of an alleluia verse for the holiday of Epiphany.
- The album American Composers' Alliance at 50 includes her piece Paraphrasis (1981). This is an organ fantasy based on the tune INNSBRUCK. Haskell Thomson plays the organ on this recording.
- The album Four Elements: works for horn and piano by female composers features her work Four Elements (1974–77). It is played by Lin Foulk on horn and Martha Fischer on piano.
- Music by Women: a Celebration includes her Theme and Seven Variations (1972). Rosemary Platt plays the piano on this recording.
