Joan Tower

About

Grammy-winner, American contemporary composer and pianist (b. September 6, 1938).

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Piano Concerto
Joan Tower / Marc-André Hamelin, Adrian Morejon, Carol Wincenc, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
2023
BMOP/sound
CD, Album
Red Maple (Music For Bassoon And Strings)
Peter Kolkay, Calidore String Quartet - Joan Tower • Russell Platt • Mark-Anthony Turnage • Judith Weir
2023
Bridge Records (4)
CD, Album
Strike Zones
Joan Tower, Evelyn Glennie, Blair McMillen, Albany Symphony*, David Alan Miller
2021
Naxos
CD, Album
Concerto In F / Sequoia / Symphony No. 5 / Remembering Gatsby
Gershwin* / Tower* / Piston* / Harbison* - Kevin Cole (4), National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, David Alan Miller
2020
Naxos
CD, Album
String Quartets Nos. 3-5 / Dumbarton Quintet
Joan Tower, Daedalus Quartet*, Miami String Quartet, Blair McMillen
2016
Naxos
CD, Album
The Oberlin Trio
The Oberlin Trio, Dvořák*, Shostakovich*, Tower*
2016
Oberlin Music
CD, Album
Violin Concerto • Stroke • Chamber Dance
Joan Tower, Cho-Liang Lin, Nashville Symphony*, Giancarlo Guerrero
2015
American Flute Quintets
Joan Tower, Amy Beach*, Arthur Foote, Carol Wincenc, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
2012
Bridge Records (4)
CD
American Music For Percussion • 1
Tower* • Sandler* • Higdon* • Rodríguez* • Schuller* - New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, Frank Epstein
2011
Naxos
CD
Multiplicities: '38 - Music By Composers Born In 1938
Blair McMillen Wih Sachiko Kato / Corigliano*, Tower*, Rzewski*, Wuorinen*, Harbison*, Bolcom*
2008
Centaur Records
CD, Album
Big Sky (Chamber Music Of American Women Composers)
Amy Beach* / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich / Joan Tower - The Arcos Trio
2008
White Pine Music, White Pine Music
CD
Made In America / Tambor / Concerto For Orchestra
Joan Tower, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
2007
Instrumental Music
Joan Tower - Tokyo String Quartet, Richard Woodhams, Paul Neubauer, Chee-Yun, Ursula Oppens, Melvin Chen, André Emelianoff, Joan Tower
2005
Naxos
CD
Cantos Desiertos
Terry Riley • Beaser* • Tower* • Liebermann* • Schickele* - Alexandra Hawley • Jeffrey McFadden
2003
b. 1938
Bolcom* / Corigliano* / Harbison* / Milburn* / Tower* / Wuorinen* - The Fischer Duo
2001
Gasparo
CD
Fanfares For The Uncommon Woman
Joan Tower / Colorado Symphony Orchestra*, Marin Alsop
1999
Koch International Classics
CD, Album
Five American Clarinet Quintets
The Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center, David Shifrin - John Corigliano / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich / Bright Sheng / Joan Tower / Bruce Adolphe
1998
Delos
2xCD
American Piano Concertos = Amerikanische Klavierkonzerte
Bond* - Ott* - Tower* / Paul Barnes (3) , Piano - Philharmony "Bohuslav Martinu"* - Kirk Trevor
1998
Koch Schwann
CD, Album
Concertos
Joan Tower
1997
D'Note Classics
CD
Divertimento (Wind Music Of Diamond, Tull Washburn, Stamp, Tower)
Diamond*, Tull*, Washburn*, Stamp*, Tower*, The Keystone Wind Ensemble Conducted By Jack Stamp
1995
Citadel (3)
CD
Black Topaz
Joan Tower
1995
New World Records
CD
Music for Clarinet
Joan Tower, Robert Spring
1991
Summit Records (3)
CD, Album
Island Rhythms / Kentucky Concerto / Pro Et Contra
The Louisville Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton-Smith - Joan Tower / Otto Luening / Sofia Gubaidulina
1991
First Edition Records
CD, Album
Silver Ladders / Island Prelude / Music For Cello And Orchestra / Sequoia
Joan Tower
1990
Chamber & Solo Works
Joan Tower
1990
The Infernal Machine / Ogoun Badagris / Sequoia / Prismatic Variations
Christopher Rouse (2) / Joan Tower / Donald Erb - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
1986
Amazon / Wings / Noon Dance / Platinum Spirals
Joan Tower
1985
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
LP, Album
The Da Capo Chamber Players Celebrate Their Tenth Anniversary
The Da Capo Chamber Players* - Glass* / Perle* / Ran* / Schwantner* / Tower* / Wuorinen*
1981
Composers Recordings, Inc., Composers Recordings, Inc.
LP, Album
Tower: Hexachords For Flute, Breakfast Rhythms / Tanenbaum: Rituals And Reactions
Tower*, Tanenbaum*
1977
Composers Recordings, Inc.
LP, Album
3 Movements For Quintet / The Folly Stone / Prelude For Five Players / Divertimento
Raoul Pleskow / Edward Miller* / Joan Tower / Elie Yarden
1972
Composers Recordings, Inc.
LP
American Bassoon Voices, Contemporary Works for Solo Bassoon
Cayla Bellamy
2023
Mark Records
CD
Impulse
Jordan Bak
2022
Bright Shiny Things
CD, Album
Second Flight
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen
2021
Innova Recordings
CD, Album
Better Angels
Western Brass Quintet
2020
Summit Records (3)
CD, Album
Ribbons
West Chester University Wind Ensemble, Andrew Yozviak
2020
Mark Masters
CD
Organon Novus
Randall Harlow
2020
Innova Recordings
3xCD, Album
Liminal
Edward Goodman
2020
Soundset Recordings
CD, Album
Secondary Impressions
Aaron Lington
2019
Origin Classical
CD, Album
Guitar Works By Grawemeyer Award Composers
Ewa Jabłczyńska, Dariusz Kupiński, Stephen Mattingly (2)
2019
Soundset Recordings
CD, Album
2018 Texas Festival Orchestra Highlights
Round Top Festival Institute, Texas Festival Orchestra
2018
Round Top Records
CD
Dragon
William Perconti*, Alloy Saxophone Quartet*
2013
Albany Records
CD, Album
25 X 25 (25 Premieres For 25 Years)
The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum
2013
Soundbrush Records
2xCD
Chicago Moves
Gaudete Brass
2012
Cedille Records
CD, Album
Milton Babbitt - A Composers' Memorial
Various
2012
Perspectives Of New Music, Open Space (3)
4xCD
Notable Women (Trios By Today’s Female Composers)
Lincoln Trio*
2011
Cedille Records
CD, Album
Fascinating Ribbons
University Of New Mexico Wind Symphony*, Eric Rombach-Kendall, Sam Pilafian*
2009
Summit Education
CD
One Of A Kind
Rebecca Rischin
2009
Centaur Records
CD, Album
The Essential Jack Stamp And The Keystone Wind Ensemble
Jack Stamp, The Keystone Wind Ensemble
2008
Citadel Records (8)
CD, Comp
The American Virtuoso
Paul Barnes (3)
2007
Orange Mountain Music
CD, Album
WASBE 2007 Killarney Ireland
Frederick Speck, University Of Louisville Wind Ensemble
2007
Mark Records
CD, Album
The Waltz Project Revisited, New Waltzes For Piano
Eric Moe (2)
2004
Albany Records
CD, Album
Thirteen Ways
eighth blackbird
2003
Cedille Records
CD, Album
American Visions
American Brass Quintet
2003
Summit Records (3)
CD, Album
Panta Rhei • Variations For Solo Flute • When Summer Sang • Stray Birds • Sextet
Ursula Mamlok
2002
Composers Recordings, Inc.
CD, Comp
Visions In Metaphor
John Sampen / Marilyn Shrude
2001
Albany Records
CD, Album
Viaticum: A Journey Of The Mind, Body, And Soul
Robert F. Bates*, Alan Wiemann
2001
Loft Recordings (2)
CD, Album
Chronicles Of Discovery: American Music For Flute & Guitar
Bonita Boyd, Nicholas Goluses
2000
Albany Records
CD, Album
New York Philharmonic: An American Celebration, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
New York Philharmonic
1999
New York Philharmonic
10xCD, Comp + Box, Comp
America's Millennium Tribute To Adolphe Sax, Volume II
Various With Special Guest Artist Eugene Rousseau
1998
Arizona University Recordings
CD, Album
The Electric Saxophone
John Sampen
1997
Capstone Records
CD, Album
Week Of American Music = Săptămâna Muzicii Americane (September 11-14, 1994)
Various
1995
Electrecord
CD, Promo
The Slatkin Years
Slatkin*, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
1995
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
6xCD, Comp, Dlx, Ltd + Box, Comp
The Composer-Performer (Forty Years Of Discovery 1954-1994)
Various
1994
Composers Recordings, Inc., Composers Recordings, Inc.
CD, Comp
Panorama Of American Piano Music From Antheil To Zappa 1911 To 1991
Yvar Mikhashoff
1992
Mode
4xCD, Comp
The American Album
Leonard Slatkin Conducting Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
1991
RCA Victor Red Seal, BMG Classics
CD, Album
American Premieres (New Compositions For Woodwind Quintet)
Dorian Wind Quintet*
1990
Summit Records (3)
CD
Sextet / When Summer Sang / Sonatina / Tirzah / Acanthus
Mamlok* / Widdoes*
1982
Composers Recordings, Inc., Composers Recordings, Inc.
LP, Album
American Society Of University Composers
Various
1978
Advance Recordings (2)
LP
Riding The Wind I / Intermedio
Sollberger* / Wyner*
1976
Composers Recordings, Inc., Composers Recordings, Inc.
LP
Modern Instrumental Music
John Heiss / Herbert Brün / Rolv Yttrehus
1974
Composers Recordings, Inc.
LP
Saint-saens: Hayvanlar Karnavalı
İlhan Mimaroğlu*
Ezgi Plâkları
2x7", EP
Texas Tech University School Of Music
Various
Not On Label
CD
RCA Red Seal Century - Soloists & Conductors
Various
RCA Red Seal
2xCD, Comp, RE
Outrages And Interludes
John Halle
2014
Innova Recordings
CD, Album
The NYFA Collection (25 Years Of New York New Music)
Various
2010
Innova Recordings
5xCD, Comp
MoMu Erfolge und Endeckungen
Various
2006
Universal
2xCD, Comp
Juggernaut
Jeremy Justeson
2002
Equilibrium
CD, Album
Nightshade Rounds
Sharon Isbin
1994
The Waltz Project (17 Contemporary Waltzes For Piano)
Various
1981
American Society Of University Composers, Inc., Supplement to Proceeding 7/8
Various
2025
Creel Pone
4xCDr, Comp, Unofficial

Violin Concerto
Joan Tower
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, no. 1
Joan Tower
Wild Purple
Joan Tower
Made in America
Joan Tower
Petroushskates
Joan Tower
DNA
Joan Tower
No Longer Very Clear: I. Holding a Daisy
Joan Tower
Island Prelude
Joan Tower
Tambor
Joan Tower
Big Sky
Joan Tower
Snow Dreams
Joan Tower
Trio Cavany
Joan Tower
Fifth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Joan Tower
No Longer Very Clear: Holding a Daisy
Joan Tower
Wings
Joan Tower
Still/Rapids: I. Still
Joan Tower
In Memory
Joan Tower
No Longer Very Clear: Or like a…an Engine
Joan Tower
No Longer Very Clear: Vast Antique Cubes
Joan Tower
Silver Ladders
Joan Tower

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http://www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=1605
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/joan-tower-mn0001191508
http://composers.com/joan-tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Tower