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Meira Warshauer was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and graduated from Harvard University (magna cum laude), New England Conservatory of Music (with honors), and the University of South Carolina. She studied composition with Mario Davidovsky, Jacob Druckman, William Thomas McKinley, and Gordon Goodwin. Her works have been performed and recorded to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Israel, Europe, South America, and Asia. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. Warshauer was awarded the Artist Fellowship in Music by the South Carolina Arts Commission in 1994, and in 2000, received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina.

Warshauer has received commissions from the Dayton (Ohio) Philharmonic, the South Carolina Philharmonic (three orchestra works), the Zamir Chorale of Boston with the Rottenberg Chorale (New York City), Zemer Chai (Washington, DC), Gratz College (Philadelphia), Kol Dodi (New Jersey); the Cantors Assembly, clarinetist Richard Nunemaker, violinist Daniel Heifetz, and flutist Paula Robison. Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary Land of Promise: The Jews of South Carolina and Spirals of Light, chamber music and poetry (by Ani Tuzman) on themes of enlightenment, on the Kol Meira label, and Revelation for orchestra, included on Robert Black Conducts (MMC). YES! for clarinet and orchestra, written for and recorded by Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic, is scheduled for release by MMC in 2004.

Warshauer is on the faculty of Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina, where she teaches an innovative cross-cultural, multidisciplinary course on the experience of music as a source of healing. Warshauer has devoted much of her work to Jewish themes. In spring 2002, Kol Israel National Radio broadcast an hour-long program to her music. For more information about Meira Warshauer, visit her website at Meira Warshauer.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Tuesday in Bratislava






You have already seen me in one of the pictures from Sunday, my name is Timotea Vrablova. I am writing on behalf of Meira as her publicist of the concert in Bratislava. Very soon you find that I am not a native English speaker so be patient with me, please.
Meira sends you warm greetings. She is doing very well. Her days are extremely busy. Yesterday was a difficult day. She had a rehearsal with the choir doing her best to teach them the right American accent for the parts of Shacharit that should be recited. At night she did not feel very well as she got a cold. Today was a long day of rehearsals and recording. In the morning she was struggling with having a cold. But in the afternoon she felt much better.
You are probably curious how I am going on with the promotion of the concert. The presentation materials and press release were distributed to all relevant printed media, as well as to some radio stations. Information about the concert with a little Meira’s profile was published in Bratislava - Vienna cultural bulletin. Some little articles appeared in Rosh Chodesh (Czecho-Slovak Jewish magazine) and Delet (Slovak Jewish magazine). Slovak Radio daily broadcasts a spot about the concert. Also B3 (a Christian radio station) presents this week a little feature about Meira and the concert in Bratislava. Slovak TV station TA3 has already announced that they come to the concert and will make an interview with Meira and some of the soloists, etc. Meira’s concert is understood like it continues the message of reconciliation and peace that was initiated in the “Oratorio Terezin” written by Ruth Fazal, a Canadian composer. The European premiere of it was in Bratislava in 2004. No doubt this concert is more than just an ordinary cultural event.
New pictures from today are from the rehearsal in the Slovak Radio. There are also pictures of the Grasalkovich’s palace, the residence of the President of the Slovak Republic. The residence was built around 1760 by an aristocrat Anton Grasalkovich who was a great donator of culture. His residence was famous for concerts and theatrical performances.
That is all for today. Tomorrow I will bring you more news about Meira’s endeavours and maybe also about Bratislava.
posted by Meira Warshauer