Music by Bielawa, Polak, and Sirvent

New York Based composer and soprano Lisa Bielawa, accompanied by UNCG’s new music ensemble Present~Continuous. The program will include works by Bielawa, and by UNCG composers Lihuen Sirvent and Suzanne Polak

Composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition and the recipient of the 2017 Music Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Bielawa, vocalist with the Philip Glass Ensemble since 1992- became the inaugural Composer-in-Residence and Chief Curator at the new Philip Glass Institute (PGI) at The New School’s Center of the Performing Arts in New York City.

Lisa Bielawa is Composer-in-Residence at UNCG School of Music for the Spring of 2019.