CAROLYN YARNELL

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Carolyn Yarnell's works have been commissioned & performed by the best orchestras and performers in the world. The prize-winning composer’s music encompasses a broad spectrum of style and media, from orchestral works and electronic soundscapes, to solo and chamber music performed on both modern and early instruments; computer music, multi-disciplinary works, children's songs, and improvisatory space music with a metal tinge. Her music has been recorded on the Tzadik, Koch, Albany Records, Geisha Farm, and Santa Fe New Music labels.

Yarnell is a founding member of the Common Sense Composers Collective; she holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Yale University. Carolyn studied as a pianist under Mack McCray, percussion with Peggy Lucchesi, and composition with Elinor Armer, John Adams, Andrew Imbrie, Jacob Druckman, Withold Lutoslawski, Martin Bresnick, Nicholas Maw, Frederik Rzewski, Oliver Knussen, Lucas Foss, Poul Ruders and Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson.

Honors include the National Endowment for the Arts (for music and painting), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Music Center, ASCAP, The Institute of International Education (Fulbright Fellowship to Iceland - for music inspired by landscape), the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Tanglewood Music Center, Meet the Composer, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. Although her works are varied, they have the common thread of being distinctly evocative.

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