Award-winning composer Joanne Metcalf talks about how the TM and TM-Sidhi programs have impacted her work and enriched her life as a whole. She includes two short pieces of her beautiful choral music.
The music of Ms. Metcalf, critically acclaimed as “music of great beauty” by the classical music Klassik-Heute website and as “extraordinarily beautiful” by International Record Review, is known for its evocative lyricism and “beautiful use of vocal colors and texture,” according to The Herald.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and medieval musical arrangement and contemporary extended vocal techniques, Ms. Metcalf has forged a compelling musical voice that “evoke[s] earlier musical forms,” as described by The Globe and Mail, Montreal, yet is “unmistakably contemporary,” The Herald said. Choir & Organ called her composition Music for the Star of the Sea “magical,” while Klassik-Heute described “Ego dilecto meo” as “a delicately woven composition in bittersweet shades.”
Award-winning composer Joanne Metcalf talks about how the TM and TM-Sidhi programs have impacted her work and enriched her life as a whole.
Ms. Metcalf’s compositions have been performed and broadcast in more than 30 countries worldwide by leading musicians, including classical music luminaries the Hilliard Ensemble; Gothic Voices; Singer Pur, Germany’s pre-eminent vocal ensemble; and three-time Grammy winners The Crossing. She is the recipient of a prestigious Women’s Choir Consortium Commission from the American Choral Directors Association for You Are the Light of the Stars, which was performed by 35 choirs across the United States.
Ms. Metcalf’s music has been heard at many prominent international venues, including the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, the Hannover Bienniale, Germany’s Beethovenfest, the York Early Music Festival, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, the European Choir Games, Glasgow Cathedral, and Washington National Cathedral.
Ms. Metcalf has received awards from Aaron Copland House in New York, the Netherland-America Foundation, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the International Association of Women in Music. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and earned a Ph.D. in music from Duke University. Her compositions are recorded on the ECM New Series, Linn Records, Oehms Classics, and Sono Luminus labels.
Mario Orsatti, host of TM Talks and U.S. Director of Advanced Techniques of the TM program, interviewed Joanne Metcalf on August 25, 2024.
Watch the discussion with Joanne Metcalf (54:51)
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