Ruth Lomon

Ruth Lomon (7 November 1930 – 26 September 2017) was a Canadian-American classical composer. Life and career A native of Montreal, Canada, she was born in Montreal and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She attended le Conservatoire de Quebec and McGill University. She continued her studies with Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music and later with Witold Lutosławski at Dartington College in England. In 1951, she moved to the United States and became interested in the music of the American Southwest and the Indigenous peoples from that region. In 1998, Lomon became Composer/Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University. She composed an oratorio, Testimony of Witnesses, for vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra. She was the recipient of a grant from the Hadassah International Research Center (now the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) for this work. She was commissioned by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston to compose a trumpet concerto, Odyssey, for Charles Schlueter, principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. During 1995-96, Lomon was a fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, where she composed “Songs of Remembra