Reena Esmail facts for kids

Reena Esmail (born 11 February 1983) is an Indian-American music composer of Indian and Western classical music.

Esmail has been commissioned to compose pieces for ensembles including Amherst College Choir and Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Conspirare, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. In 2020, The New York Times included her in a feature entitled, "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin;" fellow composer Andrew Norman selected her work entitled, "Darshan" as performed by Vijay Gupta, calling it "familiar and fresh, intimate and epic, grounded and aloft."

Honors and awards

• United States Artist Fellow in Music 2019
• S&R Foundation Washington Award Grand Prize 2019
• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Citizen Artist Fellow 2017-2018
• Two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2002, 2007)
• Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012
• INK Fellow 2011
• Winner in the MTAC-WLA Chamber Music Competition for piano performance
• Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar 2011-2012

Works

Esmail composes for orchestra, solo instrument, chamber ensemble, and voice. Works include Barso Re (2010) for Yale Sur et Veritaal, Yale's Hindi a cappella organization.