Tamar Diesendruck

Tamar Diesendruck (; born August 3, 1946) is an American composer of classical music. A 1999 Guggenheim Fellow, she is also a professor at Berklee College of Music. Biography Tamar Diesendruck was born in August 3, 1946 in Tel Aviv, In 1968, she obtained her BA at Brandeis University, In 1989, Diesendruck’s piece Such Stuff premiered at Carnegie Hall; Carmen Eisner of the Wisconsin State Journal praised it for “hold ing plenty of close calls for ears that don’t like to take chances”, while John Rockwell of The New York Times criticized it for its perceived incoherence. In 1990, she started her series of Tower of Babel-inspired pieces, with Susan Larson of The Boston Globe calling it “the framework for Diesendruck’s search for a personal language”. One of these pieces, On That Day, when performed by the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble in 1991, was called “determinedly un-mysterious” by Richard Buell of The Boston Globe, Robert Croan of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called How/Feel the “most substantial and interesting work” of its respective 1993 Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble concert. In 1997, Buell praised her next piece The Grief That Does Not Speak (in lower-case) for its quality but