Reena Esmail

American pianist and composer

Reena Esmail (born 11 February 1983) is an Indian-American music composer of Indian and Western classical music.^[1]

Esmail has been commissioned to compose pieces for ensembles including Amherst College Choir and Orchestra,^[2] Santa Fe Pro Musica,^[3] Conspirare,^[4] and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.^[5]. In 2020, The New York Times included her in a feature entitled, "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin;" fellow composer Andrew Norman selected her work entitled, "Darshan" as performed by Vijay Gupta, calling it "familiar and fresh, intimate and epic, grounded and aloft."^[6]

Honors and awards

United States Artist Fellow in Music 2019^[1]
S&R Foundation Washington Award Grand Prize 2019^[7]
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Citizen Artist Fellow 2017-2018^[8]
Two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards (2002, 2007)^[9]
Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012^[10]
INK Fellow 2011^[11]
Winner in the MTAC-WLA Chamber Music Competition for piano performance^[12]
Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar 2011-2012^[13]

Works

Esmail composes for orchestra, solo instrument, chamber ensemble, and voice. Works include Barso Re (2010) for Yale Sur et Veritaal, Yale's Hindi a cappella organization.^[14]

References

^ ^a ^b "United States Artists » Reena Esmail".
^ "Amherst Tuning In: 19th Amendment Commission | Calendar of Events | Amherst College". www.amherst.edu.
^ "Pro Musica announces 2020-21 Season – Santa Fe Pro Musica".
^ "The Singing Guitar | Conspirare". 18 September 2020.
^ Los Angeles Master Chorale. "Reena Esmail". lamasterchorale.org.
^ Norman, Andrew (September 2, 2020). "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love the Violin". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ "The S&R Washington Award Winners | S&R Foundation". sandrfoundation.org.
^ "Citizen Artist Fellows of The Kennedy Center 2017-2018 | Kennedy Center". www.kennedy-center.org.
^ Sheridanon, Molly (2002-06-04). "To Be Young and Talented: 2002 Morton Gould Young Composer Award Winners | New Music USA". Nmbx.newmusicusa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
^ "Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters".
^ "Stories, Ideas and Perspectives | 300+ Inspirational talks by remarkable people from INK events -". inktalks.com.
^ The Instrumentalist, Volume 57, Issues 1-6. Association for the Advancement of Instrumental Music. 2002. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
^ "USIEF". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
^ "Music". Retrieved 23 October 2010.