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ABOUT ORIANNA WEBB
Composer and pianist Orianna Webb's music has been described
as "abound[ing] in urgent and mysterious detail" Cleveland
Plain Dealer) and “exciting, even in the still passages, and
entirely convincing” (American Record Guide). Her
compositions have been recognized with honors and
commissions from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the
Fromm Foundation, ASCAP, and many others, and have been
performed by orchestras, chamber ensembles, and soloists
across the United States. Recently premiered works include
“Mirrored Spaces” for solo guitar, commissioned by the Fromm
Foundation and co-written with Daniel Lippel, “Ways the Sky
Meets the Sea” for chamber orchestra, winner of the Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Prize and composed in residence at the
Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), and “The Time Being”
for orchestra, premiered at the Cabrillo Festival of
Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, CA. Her works have been
released on New Focus Recordings and Albany Records.
A graduate of the Yale School of Music, the Cleveland
Institute of Music, and the University of Chicago, Orianna’s
music background combines classical performance,
genre-defying improvisation, in-depth scholarly studies, and
passion for teaching all levels of age and experience.
Orianna has taught composition, music theory, orchestration,
music history, and musicianship to graduate and
undergraduate students at the Yale School of Music, Yale
College, the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), and Case
Western Reserve University. She is a founding faculty member
and director of the Young Composers Program at CIM, a
week-long summer program which draws composers ages 14-19
from around the US and abroad. She has taught private
lessons in piano, composition, and music theory to young
children through adults for the past 15 years.
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EDUCATION
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- BA with Honors, University of Chicago, Music,
1997
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MM, Cleveland Institute of Music, Composition, 2001
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- MMA, Yale School of Music, Composition, 2003
(Paper: “Arborescences”: Henri Dutilleux’s Violin Concerto
L’arbre des songes)
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OTHER STUDIES
Summer Intensives in the Dalcroze approach to music pedagogy,
Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA 2006, 2007
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Teaching Philosophy:
I view a musical education as developing the whole person:
intellectual, creative, physical/kinesthetic, and social.
Learning works best when it is both rigorous and fun, and when
it taps into the innate ability to learn that every child
possesses. I focus on each child’s individual needs to nurture
their creativity, and to bring them to fluency in music.
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