Leslie Wildman is an American composer, who grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois.

Biography

Leslie Wildman grew up outside Chicago in

Lake Bluff, Illinois Lake Bluff is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,616. History The first settler family to claim land within the area now part of Lake Bluff arrived in 1836. They claimed 100 acres of ...

She studied piano with Ellen Graff Mehegan. Her first composition teacher was William O. Smith at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. She moved to Berkeley, California where she studied with

Andrew Imbrie Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007) was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist. Career Imbrie was born in New York City and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Par ...

. In 1986, she received a Masters in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley. After completing her education, Ms. Wildman worked briefly as an orchestrator for the film composer, Laurence Rosenthal. She has worked with the choreographer

Henning Rübsam Henning Rübsam is a choreographer and dancer based in New York City. He is the artistic director of SENSEDANCE, a faculty member of The Juilliard School and Fordham University, and a visiting guest professor at Texas Academy of Ballet (Caroly ...

, whose dance company SENSEDANCE is based in New York. She presently divides her time between New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. Major works include ''Overture to a Wink'' for large orchestra premiered in 1987 in Berkeley, California; ''Let Me Not Mar'' for soprano, oboe and piano, premiered in 1988 at the

Aspen Music Festival The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) is a classical music festival held annually in Aspen, Colorado. It is noted both for its concert programming and the musical training it offers to mostly young-adult music students. Founded in 1949, the ...

; and ''Solo Flight'', a theater work for soprano and electronics based on Amelia Earhart's flight across the Atlantic, premiered in 1995 in Vienna, Austria.

Sources

*Collingridge, Caroline (June, 1995)
"Vienna Congress Report Female Music Rush-Hour: The Ninth International Congress on Women in Music"
'' IAWM Journal''. *La Rocco, Claudia (October 25, 2006)
"A Choreographer’s Love-Hate Relationship With Ballet"
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