Lesley Sommer is Assistant Professor in the music department at
Western Washington University, where she teaches composition, music
theory, and electronic music. Born in Eugene, Oregon in 1967, she grew up
in Seattle composing and playing the violin. She holds degrees in
Composition from Indiana University where her principal teachers were
Frederick Fox and Eugene O'Brien. Her music has been performed at Midwest
Composers Symposiums, the NOW Music Festival, the New Music and Art
Festival at Bowling Green, the SEAMUS National Conference, the KEAMS
Festival of Elecrto-Acoustic Music, and at concerts and readings sponsored
by the American Composers Forum. Her works are published by Non Sequitur
Music and she is a member of the MusicLink Contemporary Consort. Sommer
received an ASCAP Young Composers Award in 1996 for her work Inflections and Innuendoes and was co-winner of the 1999 Margaret Blackburn
Composition Prize for her piece Transparent Landscapes. An avid gardener,
Sommer sometimes creates her music through the subtle interlocking of
diverse organic processes. Imaginary Opera Music, her recent piece for
orchestra, was premiered at Western Washington in June 1999.
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