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Joan Tower
p, *1938 US, New Rochelle, New York
Musician / Composer / Conductor of Classical
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world. After gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has gone on to compose a variety of instrumental works including Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, the Island Prelude, two string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems. Tower was pianist and founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Play
Plays With
| Da Capo Chamber Players |
Popular Tracks 
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1 on The American Album by Leonard Slatkin & St. Louis Symphony Made in America on Tower: Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra by Joan Tower, Leonard Slatkin & Nashville Symphony Orchestra 1920/2019 on Gershwin, Joan Tower & Steven Stucky: Works for Piano & Orchestra by Kevin Cole, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic & David Alan Miller Violin Concerto on Tower: Violin Concerto, Stroke & Chamber Dance by Joan Tower, Cho-Liang Lin, Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Giancarlo Guerrero Piano Concerto - Homage to Beethoven on Joan Tower: Piano Concerto - Homage to Beethoven by Joan Tower, Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose Fascinating Ribbons on Fascinating Ribbons by University Of New Mexico Wind Symphony & Eric Rombach-Kendall Petroushkates on Music of Joan Tower by Joan Tower & Various Artists Island Prelude on Tower: Chamber and Solo Music by Joan Tower Rising on Joan Tower: Piano Concerto - Homage to Beethoven by Joan Tower, Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Gil Rose Petroushskates on Eighth Blackbird: Thirteen Ways by eighth blackbirdTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
Band Members
Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| String Quartets Nos. 3-5 / Dumbarton Quintet | Joan Tower, Daedalus String Quartet, Miami String Quartet, Blair McMillen | 2016 | Album |
| Violin Concerto • Stroke • Chamber Dance | Joan Tower, Cho-Liang Lin, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero | 2015 | Album |
| American Music For Percussion • 1 | Joan Tower • Felicia Sandler • Jennifer Higdon • Robert Xavier Rodríguez • Gunther Schuller - New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, Frank Epstein | 2011 | Album |
| Big Sky (Chamber Music Of American Women Composers) | Amy Marcy Cheney Beach / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich / Joan Tower - The Arcos Trio | 2008 | Album |
| Multiplicities: '38 - Music By Composers Born In 1938 | Blair McMillen Wih Sachiko Kato / John Corigliano, Joan Tower, Frederic Rzewski, Charles Wuorinen, John Harbison, William Bolcom | 2008 | Album |
| Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra | Joan Tower, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 2007 | Album |
| Instrumental Music | Joan Tower - Tokyo String Quartet, Richard Woodhams, Paul Neubauer, Chee-Yun, Ursula Oppens, Melvin Chen, André Emelianoff | 2005 | Album |
| Cantos Desiertos | Terry Riley • Robert Beaser • Joan Tower • Lowell Liebermann • Peter Schickele - Alexandra Hawley • Jeffrey McFadden | 2003 | Album |
| b. 1938 | William Bolcom / John Corigliano / John Harbison / Ellsworth Milburn / Joan Tower / Charles Wuorinen - The Fischer Duo | 2001 | Album |
| Fanfares For The Uncommon Woman | Joan Tower / The Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop | 1999 | Album |
| Five American Clarinet Quintets | The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center, David Shifrin - John Corigliano / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich / Bright Sheng / Joan Tower / Bruce Adolphe | 1998 | Album |
| American Piano Concertos | Victoria Bond - David Ott - Joan Tower / Paul Barnes | 1998 | Album |
| Black Topaz | Joan Tower | 1995 | Album |
| Divertimento (Wind Music Of Diamond, Tull Washburn, Stamp, Tower) | David Diamond, Fisher Tull, Robert Washburn, Jack Stamp, Joan Tower, The Keystone Wind Ensemble | 1995 | Album |
| Island Rhythms / Kentucky Concerto / Pro Et Contra | The Louisville Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton-Smith - Joan Tower / Otto Luening / Sofia Gubaidulina | 1991 | Album |
| Music for Clarinet | Joan Tower, Robert Spring | 1991 | Album |
| Chamber & Solo Works | Joan Tower | 1990 | Compil. |
| Silver Ladders / Island Prelude / Music For Cello And Orchestra / Sequoia | Joan Tower | 1990 | Album |
| The Infernal Machine / Ogoun Badagris / Sequoia / Prismatic Variations | Christopher Rouse / Joan Tower / Donald Erb - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 1986 | Album |
| Amazon / Wings / Noon Dance / Platinum Spirals | Joan Tower | 1985 | Album |
| The Da Capo Chamber Players Celebrate Their Tenth Anniversary | Da Capo Chamber Players - Philip Glass / George Perle / Shulamit Ran / Joseph Schwantner / Joan Tower / Charles Wuorinen | 1981 | Album |
| Tower: Hexachords For Flute, Breakfast Rhythms / Tanenbaum: Rituals And Reactions | Joan Tower, Elias Tanenbaum | 1977 | Album |
| 3 Movements For Quintet / The Folly Stone / Prelude For Five Players / Divertimento | Raoul Pleskow / Edward J. Miller / Joan Tower / Elie Yarden | 1972 | Album |
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