Margaret Brouwer Photo Courtesy, 21st Century Music Management

Composer Margaret Brouwer has been awarded the 1999 Cleveland Arts Prize for Music. A well-known figure in the Cleveland musical community, she has been head of the composition department at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1996 and also directs CIM's New Music Ensemble.

Ms. Brouwer is currently working on several major projects, including a percussion concerto for soloist Evelyn Glennie, and a commission for a new orchestral work from The Women's Philharmonic. A new recording of her chamber music has recently been released on Composers Recordings, Inc., entitled Crosswinds. Past commissions and performances include works for the St. Louis Symphony, Roanoke and Juilliard Orchestras. Recently, her First Symphony received its premiere to great acclaim around the country when it was performed by the Akron Symphony, Long Beach, and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. Honors include grants from the NEA, Ford Foundation and Knight Foundation. Margaret Brouwer's music is published by Carl Fisher.

Born into a musical household in Lansing MI, Ms. Brouwer began her musical training at age four, and studied piano, violin and voice, while also composing. At Oberlin she continued to develop her compositional skills. Before coming to the Cleveland Institute she was Composer-in-Residence at the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. While in Virginia she also founded the Sonoklect New Music Festival at Washington and Lee University.

The Cleveland Arts Prize, first awarded in 1961, is sponsored by the Women's City Club of Cleveland and the Cleveland Women's City Club Foundation. Artists selected for the prize, by a jury of peers, are to have created "an original body of work that has been constructed, exhibited, performed or published locally and nationally and through its consistent quality brought distinction to our region." Past winners in music include Donald Erb, Robert Ward, and Paul Schoenfield.

from Prelude and Vivace - 2nd Movement[79 seconds] Daniel Silver - clarinet Cleveland Institute of Music New Music Ensemble conducted by Timothy Weiss (CRI 821) Order From Amazon