ArtistInfo

Bunita Marcus

Band, *1952 US
Composer of Classical

Bunita Marcus (born May 5, 1952 in Madison, Wisconsin), began studying composition at the age of sixteen and worked in both electronic and instrumental mediums while at the University of Wisconsin. In 1981 she received a Ph.D. in Composition from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York where she held the Edgard Varèse Fellowship in Composition and studied with Morton Feldman. Marcus' music has been consistently praised for its beauty and rare sensitivity. Kyle Gann of the Village Voice has called her one of his favorite female composers of all time. He applauds her piano work Julia for its "touching and unassuming depth," which "had the audience hushed under the impact of deeply communicated feeling." Los Angeles critic Alan Rich says her work Adam and Eve "states an el

Members

	Matthias Engler perc *1979 DE
	Aya Muraki vn
	Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir hrp
	Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson cl, bcl
	Marc Tritschler p, har
	Kristjana Helgadóttir fl, pic