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Judith Shatin (* 21 November 1949) is an American composer and music teacher.

Life

Shatin studied at Douglass College, the Juilliard School of Music and Princeton University. She is a professor at the University of Virginia and director of the Virginia Centre for Computer Music, which she founded in 1987. She was a board member of the International Alliance for Women in Music, the League of Composers/ISCM and the American Composers Alliance and was President of American Women Composers, Inc. from 1989 to 1993.

As a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Sharin has studied in Germany, France and Israel. She has received four composition fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has received awards from the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, the Met-Life Creative Connections, the New Jersey State Arts Council, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and has received commissions from the Barcelona New Music Ensemble, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, the Kronos Quartet, the Library of Congress, and the National Symphony Orchestra’s Hechinger Commission.

Shatin has composed chamber music, choral works, ballet and electro-acoustic music, created music installations, multimedia and orchestral works. Her works have been performed at festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, the BAM Next Wave, the Grand Teton Festival and Moscow Autumn. In 2008, she was commissioned by the Library of Congress to compose Tower of the Eight Winds for violin and piano. She was commissioned by the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra to write Jefferson, In His Own Words for narrator and orchestra, which premiered in 2010.

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