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American pianist and composer
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Reena Esmail (born 11 February 1983) is an Indian-American music composer of Indian and Western classical music.

Esmail has been commissioned to compose pieces for ensembles including Amherst College Choir and Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Conspirare, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. In 2020, The New York Times included her in a feature entitled, "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin;" fellow composer Andrew Norman selected her work entitled, "Darshan" as performed by Vijay Gupta, calling it "familiar and fresh, intimate and epic, grounded and aloft."

Honors and awards

  • United States Artist Fellow in Music 2019
  • S&R Foundation Washington Award Grand Prize 2019
  • Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Citizen Artist Fellow 2017-2018
  • Two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2002, 2007)
  • Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012
  • INK Fellow 2011
  • Winner in the MTAC-WLA Chamber Music Competition for piano performance
  • Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar 2011-2012

Works

Esmail composes for orchestra, solo instrument, chamber ensemble, and voice. Works include Barso Re (2010) for Yale Sur et Veritaal, Yale's Hindi a cappella organization.

References

  1. ^ "United States Artists » Reena Esmail".
  2. "Amherst Tuning In: 19th Amendment Commission | Calendar of Events | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu.
  3. "Pro Musica announces 2020-21 Season – Santa Fe Pro Musica".
  4. "The Singing Guitar | Conspirare". 18 September 2020.
  5. Los Angeles Master Chorale. "Reena Esmail". lamasterchorale.org.
  6. Norman, Andrew (September 2, 2020). "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin". The New York Times.
  7. "The S&R Washington Award Winners | S&R Foundation". sandrfoundation.org.
  8. "Citizen Artist Fellows of The Kennedy Center 2017-2018 | Kennedy Center". www.kennedy-center.org.
  9. Sheridanon, Molly (2002-06-04). "To Be Young and Talented: 2002 Morton Gould Young Composer Award Winners | New Music USA". Nmbx.newmusicusa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
  10. "Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters".
  11. "Stories, Ideas and Perspectives | 300+ Inspirational talks by remarkable people from INK events -". inktalks.com.
  12. The Instrumentalist, Volume 57, Issues 1-6. Association for the Advancement of Instrumental Music. 2002. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  13. "USIEF". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
  14. "Music". Retrieved 23 October 2010.
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