Artistic Discipline: Composition, instrument making
Contact:
www.tinadavidson.com
tina@tinadavidson.com
Age Group for Residencies: Grades 3-adult
Artist’s Statement: Tina Davidson, a highly regarded American composer, creates music that stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. She has been acclaimed for her authentic voice, her “vivid ear for harmony and colors” (New York Times) and her works of “transfigured beauty” (OperaNews). She writes “real music, with structure, mood, novelty, and harmonic sophistication – with haunting melodies that grow out of complex, repetitive rhythms” (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is both “intellectually rigorous and deeply moving” (Star-Tribune).
Over her forty-year career, Davidson has been commissioned by well-known ensembles such as National Symphony Orchestra, OperaDelaware, Roanoke Symphony, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, VocalEssence, Kronos Quartet, Mendelssohn String Quartet, Cassatt Quartet, and public television (WHYY-TV). Her music has been widely performed by many orchestras and ensembles, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Musicopia String Orchestra, and Orchestra 2001. She was commissioned in 2011 by violinist, Hilary Hahn, who recorded her work on Deutsche Grammophon. The compact disc won a GRAMMY in 2015.
Recently Davidson was honored by the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra with their 2015 Annual Composer Award. The Symphony premiered of two of her works, Barefoot and First Light for string orchestra. In May 2015, she was selected to give a prestigious TEDx talk about her work in community settings. She lives in Lancaster, PA.
Residency with artist Tina Davidson, Spring Ridge Elementary, Spring 2019
