Orianna Webb

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Orianna Webb's music has been described as "abound[ing] in urgent and mysterious detail"(Cleveland Plain Dealer). Her work has been recognized with honors and commissions from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Fromm Foundation, ASCAP, the American Music Center, SCI, the International Alliance for Women in Music, the New York Youth Symphony, and others. Recent premieres have included Ways the Sky Meets the Sea, winner of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize and composed in residence at the Camargo Foundation, Sustenance Variations for sax, guitar, piano, and percussion, written for the ensemble Flexible Music, The Time Being for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, commissioned by SCI and ASCAP, and an orchestral version of The Time Being premiered at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's Conductor/Composer Program in Santa Cruz, CA. Orianna's music has recently been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia, the Bowling Green Philharmonia, Flexible Music, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO), the Prism Players, the University of Iowa Center for New Music, Vox Novus, the Mostly Modern Chamber Music Society, and heard at recitals and festivals across the country. Orianna serves on the faculty of the Yale School of Music, and has taught composition, orchestration, music theory, and music history variously at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, and Yale College. She is a founding faculty member of the Y

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