Background
She was born in Duluth, Minnesota and died in Springdale, Arkansas.
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Eleanor Hovda
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And her Master of Fine Arts in dance at Sarah Lawrence College.
Career
She received her Bachelor of Arts in music at American University in Washington District of Columbia Her music has been performed extensively in the United States. and abroad by ensembles including the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, KlangForum (Vienna), the Cassatt and Kronos Quartets, Zeitgeist, Bang on a Can All-Stars, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Boston Musica Viva, The California Ear Unit, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet and the Saint Louis Symphony. Performance venues have included Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood), Alice Tully, Carnegie Hall Weill, Miller, Walter Reade and Merkin Concert Halls. The Kitchen, Bang on a Can Festival and The Alternative Museum (New York City) the Purcell Room (London), The American Academy (Rome), the American Center (Paris), the WDR (Cologne), Cervantino Festival (Mexico), New Music Forum (Mexico City), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Vienna, Madrid, Barcelona, Tokyo and Asahikawa (Japan).
Colleges and universities including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Swarthmore.
The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and New Music America. Remote, a collaboration with Baryshnikov"s White Oak Dance Project, toured nationally and made its New York City premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1997.
Hovda held appointments as full professor/composer-in-residence on the music faculties of Princeton and Yale universities, and Bard College. Music and dance appointments include residencies at Sarah Lawrence College, Wesleyan University, the College of Saint Scholastica and the American Dance Festival.
Her music has been recorded by the ensemble Relâche.
Two CDs devoted exclusively to her compositions have been released on OO Discs: Coastal Traces and Ariadne Music. In early 2012, Innova released the four-Civil Defense set, "The Eleanor Hovda Collection," comprising "Ariadne Music," "Coastal Traces," "Sound Around The Sound," and "Excavations.".
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United States