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Lois V Vierk
Lois V Vierk (born August 4, 1951, Hammond, Indiana) is a
"post-minimalist" or "totalist" composer who lives in New York City.
She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in
1974. She then attended Cal Arts, studying composition with Mel
Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick, receiving her M.F.A. in
1978. She has conducted extensive study of gagaku music, studying
for ten years with Suenobu Togi in Los Angeles, and for two years in
Tokyo with Sukeyasu Shiba (the lead ryūteki player in Japan's
Imperial Court Orchestra). She has written many chamber works for
different ensembles which are multiples of the same instrument. Her
work uses glissando prominently and builds exponentially in level of
activity. More recently she has exampled to mixed instrument
ensembles, such as in her piece Timberline (music) commissioned by
the Relāche Ensemble, and Red Shift which has been performed on Bang
on a Can Live Vol. 2.
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