Louise Beach

Louise Beach (born September 29, 1955) is an American composer who has worked in contemporary music and musical theater. Originally working at the State University of New York at Purchase, she won the 1995 National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Composition Award and is a 2002 Guggenheim Fellow, and she was composer of the musicals The Morini Strad and Sabina. Biography Louise Beach was born on September 29, 1955, in Wilmington, Delaware, and obtained her BA (1977) from Wesleyan University. She also taught at the Centre Internationale de la Danse de Paris, Florida State University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Utah. After obtaining her MFA (1996) in Composition from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory, Beach studied with the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and worked with the New Dramatists Composer Librettist Studio. Other compositions she completed include Sonata for Violin and Piano (1997) and Wondrous Love (2002), In 2002, Beach was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition. She was composer for the Willy Holtzman musical The Morini Strad; Alice T. Carter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review commended her role in the play’s 2010 world p