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Ostwald Award Archives
Winner 1976: Loretta Jankowski, Todesband
Biography:
Loretta Jankowski was born in 1950 in Newark, New Jersey. She studied piano under Gustave Robert Ferri and took composition and theory lessons at the Juilliard School of Music, Preparatory Division. In 1972, she earned her B.M. degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music, where her teachers were Samuel Adler, Warren Benson and Joseph Schwantner. In the summer of 1972, she participated in the Dartington summer School of Music, Dartington, England where she studied with Harrison Birtwistle and Morton Feldman. The following year, she received a scholarship from the Polish Government for studies in Cracow, Poland under Marek Stachowski. She then earned an M.M. degree in composition in 1974 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she studied composition with William Albright and electronic music with George Wilson. She received her Ph.D. in composition, theory and music history from Eastman in 1979.Jankowski taught at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois from 1977-1978. In 1980 she was assistant professor of theory and composition at California State University, Long Beach, and in 1981 she became adjunct professor of theory and composition at Kean College, Union, New Jersey. From 1983, she was assistant professor of theory and composition at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Among Jankowski's compositions are chamber, sacred and electronic works and works for orchestra, piano and voice. Her Lustrations (1978) was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and A Naughty Boy (1979) for soprano, clarinet, and piano was premiered at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. She won the Women's Association for Symphony Orchestras music award in 1977 and a Meet the Composer grant in 1980.
Sources:
Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. New York: Books and Music, 1984.
Rehrig, William H. The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music. Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991.
Zaimont, Judith Lang and Karen Famera. Contemporary Concert Music By Women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Zaimont, Judith Lang and Karen Famera. Contemporary Concert Music By Women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
