Erin Elizabeth Gee (born 1974) (born

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) is an American composer and vocalist. Among the fellowships she has held are the Guggenheim and the Radcliffe Institute Fellowships, and among the awards she has won for her compositions are the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the

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and the first prize of the

International Rostrum of Composers The International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council that offers broadcasting representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music. It is funded by ...

. She was on the faculty of the

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in Urbana as Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory and is currently Associate Professor of

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Education

In 1997 Gee received her B.M. with honors and highest distinction in Piano Performance from the

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; there she also earned an M.A. in

composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature * Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography *Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...

in 2002."Erin Gee: Composer and UI Grad Erin Gee Wins the Rome Prize"
, ''The Iowa Source'', James Moore, June 2007 In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria where she studied musical composition with Beat Furrer.

Career

With her brother Colin Gee, she performed at the

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and was a resident at the

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. She won the 2008

and was a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2009. From 2010-2011, she was a fellow in composition at the

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in Stuttgart. In 2015, she received the Charles Ives Fellowship of the

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. The puzzle video game app Blek contains excerpts of Erin Gee's work. Gee is one of the

Kronos Quartet The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary class ...

50 for the Future composers. A reviewer from the ''

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'' described a performance of Gee's work as "a young woman with a microphone in each hand performing a curious and captivating symphony of sound and song".

Selected works

Discography

Selected awards and grants

*2022 Award in Music from the

*2019 Koussevitsky Award *2017 Fromm Foundation Commission *2015

, Charles Ives Fellowship Recipient ( Charles Ives Prize ) *2009

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, New York City. *2007

, The

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, Italy. *2007

“Selected Piece” (First Prize), Paris, France. *2007 Teatro Minimo Prize (first round), Zurich Opera House

References

External links

Artist's website
* Erin Gee a
IMDB
*Erin Gee a
AllMusic
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