Faye-Ellen Silverman was born on October 2,1947 and is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
16 Facts About Faye-Ellen Silverman
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Faye-Ellen Silverman studied piano, clarinet, and some viola, and participated in school bands, orchestras, and choirs.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman attended Barnard College, where she studied composition with Otto Luening and took a class in 20th-century music with Henry Cowell.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman went on to get her AM in music composition at Harvard.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman then returned to Columbia University for her DMA, where she studied composition and electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky, composition with Jack Beeson, and 20th-century techniques with Chou Wen-chung.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman became a published composer in her mid-twenties when Seesaw Music Corporation accepted Three Movements for Saxophone Alone.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman became a member of ASCAP that same year.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a resident scholar at the Villa Serbelloni of the Rockefeller Foundation, a Composers' Conference Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman's music is regularly performed at The Construction Company in New York City.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman has been presented on the Composer's Voice Concert Series by Vox Novus of which she is a member.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman accepted her first teaching job at the Rochdale Village Community Music Center, teaching children piano, during her senior year of college.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman served as adjunct faculty at various branches of the City University of New York before taking her first full-time teaching position at Goucher College where she taught music theory and other courses.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman taught for several years at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, specializing mainly in 20th-century music history at the graduate level; at the Center for Graduate Studies of the Aspen Music Festival; and at the school of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman has lectured in Europe and throughout the United States, often as a visiting composer.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman originally studied piano because she was told that composers need to be pianists, and reached a professional level that enabled her to record for Westdeutscher Rundfunk, the German public broadcasting institution based in Cologne.
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Faye-Ellen Silverman employs structure to fit the materials of each piece, as in her use of consonant melody in deliberate contrast with dissonance in the orchestral work "Adhesions".