Laura Schwendinger, a UW-Madison music professor, is already a well known composer in contemporary art music circles, the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters fellowship given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts, and the first composer to win a fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. But this current project has taken Schwendinger in a new direction: a collaboration with her cousin Leni Schwendinger, a renowned New York-based lighting designer whose large-scale architectural installations include Seattle?s opera house and Manhattan?s Port Authority Bus Terminal. The team has paired up for ?Orchestra Underground: Playing it UNsafe,? a project of the American Composers Orchestra (ACO), which is dedicated to the development of new works for orchestra.
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