Born in Mexico City, Laura Schwendinger was the 1st composer to win the Berlin Prize and is Professor at UW-Madison. Her awards include a 2023 American Academy of Arts & Letters Opera Award for her opera Artemisia, and from Guggenheim, Koussevitzky, Fromm, Harvard Musical Association, CMA, Radcliffe Institute, Copland House, League of American Orchestras, MacDowell, Yaddo, Bellagio, Bogliasco, Winner ALEA III & Opera America. Her music championed by Dawn Upshaw, Matt Haimovitz, Arditti-JACK Quartets, ICE, New Juilliard, Miller Th, Jennifer Koh, Janine Jansen, Eighth Blackbird, Liszt Chamber Orch; At Carnegie Hall, Kennedy, Lincoln Centers, Tanglewood, Aspen, Ravinia, Ojai Festivals& at Wigmore Hall, Berlin Phil &Théâtre du Châtelet. Commissions include Miller Theater, ACO, StonyBrook premiere & NFA. SFCV’s review, LeftCoast Proves Great Opera Needn’t Be Grand, “Artemisia is sumptuous……breathtaking.” In OperaWire “.casts its spell..riveting”; NY Times, “music of quivering intensity”
