Nancy van de Vate - Dark Nebulae (1981)

Nancy Van de Vate (born December 30, 1930) is an American-born composer living in Austria.

Dark Nebulae (1981)

Polish Radio and Television Orchestra, Krakow conducted by Szymon Kawalla

She attended the Eastman School of Music as a scholarship student and completed her undergraduate education at Wellesley College with a BA in Music in 1952. She received the Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Mississippi in 1958, and the Doctor of Music degree in Composition from Florida State University in 1968. She did post-doctoral work in electronic music at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire in the summer of 1972.

She has composed over 115 works in virtually all forms, from a composition for solo instrument based on only one note to grand opera. In 1994 she was granted dual citizenship by the Austrian government — permitted only in cases of exceptional artistic achievement — because of her excellence as a composer and her musical contributions to the Republic of Austria.

For many years, while actively composing, her musical activities included teaching at nine universities in the southern United States and Hawaii, performing as violist in symphony orchestras and as a solo and chamber pianist, and serving as activist president of two composers' organizations -- most notably the International League of Women Composers, which she founded in 1975 and chaired for seven years. She has contributed articles to Musical America, The International Musician, The Instrumtalist, Symphony News, and numerous other professional periodicals in the United States, Austria, Indonesia, and other countries. She is often interviewed for radio broadcast and for music journal and newspaper articles.

Her music has appeared frequently on major international music festivals including the Winter Music Nights in Bulgaria (1996), Japan Society for Contemporary Music (1991), Ultima 92 in Norway (1992), Aspekte in Salzburg (1989 and 1990), Musica Viva in Munich (1989), Poznan Spring in Poland (1984), Vienna Music Summer (1992), Wratislavia Cantans in Wroclaw, Poland (1990), and Soro Music Festival in Denmark (1994), among others.

She gives frequent guest lectures about her music in German and English in Austria, Germany, Poland, and the United States. She previously lectured in Indonesian on her music in Jakarta, where she lived for four years. Her music has been heard in at least thirty-two countries on five continents, and is especially widely heard on radio broadcasts.

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[TheStefanRager]

Isn't her name: Nancy Van de Vate? Without the r?

[bartje11]

@TheStefanRager Thanks for pointing it out. It's a Dutch/Belgian name and can be used as "van de" but also "van der" To a Dutch person like me, both look good, that's why I missed it. Do you like this piece? Anything positive to say?

[widener]

I really like this piece. I've never heard her work before. I'm on the lookout now.

[Anakim08]

Somewhat creepy sounding, but it goes well I think with the notion of space and all the dissonance adding to the idea that we have still so little knowledge of the stars out there