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Nancy Laird Chance has been twice the first prize winner of ASCAP's pn~stigious Rudolphe '--- 3sim Competition for Orchestral Composition. Her "Odysseus," which won in 1984, was chosen from among 200 entrants in a blind judging. Chance has also been the recipient of two composer fellowship/grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and three residence fellowships from the MacDowell Colony. She is a Norlin/MacDowell Fellow.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Nancy Laird Chancegraduated Magna Cum Laude from the Foxcroft School, and attended Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University and C.W. Post College. She studied piano withLilias McKinnon, who was a pupil of Matthe, and William R. Smith, now Associate Conductor of the Phildelphia Orchestra. Her professors in thE!ory and composition were Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky. After living for some years in Nairobi, Kenya, she now resides in Chelsea, in New York CitY,and is currently working on a requiem, one movement of which has been commissioned in a version for reduced forces by the Florilegium Chamber Choir. |
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