Barbara White (composer)

Barbara White (born December 3, 1965) is an American composer, clarinetist, and musicologist. A 2003 Guggenheim Fellow, she has released four albums, all but one of which she performs as the clarinetist, and she is a professor of music at Princeton University. Biography Barbara White was born on December 3, 1965, in Boston, Massachusetts. She obtained her BA (1987) from Radcliffe College and MA (1994) and PhD (1997) from University of Pittsburgh; During her early career, White was awarded a 1995 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Young Composer Award, as well as both a 1997 Charles Ives Prize and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Interdisciplinary Arts Award. She was later a 1999-2000 Continental Harmony Composer-in-Residence and a 2000 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellow, In The New York Times review of Speculum Musicae’s 2002 concert at Merkin Hall, Paul Griffiths praised White’s piece “Learning to See” as “a real discovery” because “she writes no more notes than she needs, and she has a way of making straightforward quotations (from Varése, Stravinsky and others) her own”. In 2002, her composition album When the Smoke Clears was released; it later recei