Editing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (section)

==Biography==
Ellen Taaffe was born in [[Miami, Florida]].<ref name="Florida" /> She began her music studies as a [[violin]]ist, earning a [[bachelor of music]] degree from [[Florida State University]] in 1960.  She moved to New York City to play with the [[American Symphony Orchestra]] under [[Leopold Stokowski]]. She later enrolled at [[Juilliard School]], in 1975 becoming the first woman at Juilliard to earn the degree of [[doctor of musical arts]] in composition.<ref name="Florida" /><ref name="grove"/> Her teachers included [[John Boda]], [[Elliott Carter]], and [[Roger Sessions]].  She first came to prominence when [[Pierre Boulez]] programmed her ''[[Symbolon|Symposium for Orchestra]]'' with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra in 1975.<ref name="Florida" /><ref name="here">"Ellen Taaffe Zwilich." Theodore Presser Online.  Accessed December 20, 2006. Available [http://www.presser.com/Composers/info.cfm?Name=ELLENTAAFFEZWILICH here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015143138/http://presser.com/composers/info.cfm?Name=ELLENTAAFFEZWILICH |date=October 15, 2007 }}</ref>

Some of her work during this period was written for her husband, violinist [[Joseph Zwilich]], who played in the orchestra of the [[Metropolitan Opera]].<ref name="Florida" /> He died in 1979, after which  Taaffe Zwilich refocused her compositional efforts on "communicating more directly with performers and listeners," softening her somewhat harsh, jagged style.<ref name="Florida" /><ref name="grove"/>

Her [[Symphony No. 1 (Zwilich)|Symphony No. 1]] (''Three Movements for Orchestra'') was premiered by the [[American Composers Orchestra]] in 1982, conducted by [[Gunther Schuller]].<ref name="Florida" /> It won the 1983 [[Pulitzer Prize]],<ref name="Florida" /> after which her popularity and income from commissions ensured that she could devote herself to composing full-time.<ref name="grove"/>  From 1995–99, she was the first occupant of the Composer's Chair at [[Carnegie Hall]];<ref name=post97>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1997/03/09/women-of-historic-note/259adb97-9eaf-41ef-94e7-d92b7ca54f04/ "Women of Historic Note"]. ''Washington Post'', By Gayle Worl March 9, 1997</ref> while there, she created the "Making Music" concert series, which focuses on performances and lectures by living composers, a series that is still in existence.<ref>Making Music brochure.  Carnegie Hall website.  Accessed December 20, 2006.  Available [http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/series/brochure/ser_420.html here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203203439/http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/series/brochure/ser_420.html |date=February 3, 2007 }}</ref>

She has received a number of other honors, including the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the [[Arturo Toscanini]] Music Critics Award, the [[Ernst von Dohnányi]] Citation, an Academy Award from the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]], a [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]] Fellowship, and four Grammy nominations.  She was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] and the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], and in 1999, she was designated [[Musical America]]'s Composer of the Year.<ref name="Florida" /> She has been professor at Florida State University, and has served for many years on the advisory panel of the [[BMI Foundation, Inc]].  In 2009, she became the chair of the BMI Student Composer Awards following Milton Babbitt and William Schuman. She has received six honorary doctorates.<ref name="Florida" /><ref name="here"/>

A 2012 recording of Taaffe Zwilich's [[Clarinet Concerto (Zwilich)|Concerto for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra]], performed by [[Chamber Music Northwest]] with clarinetist [[David Shifrin]], was selected by the [[Library of Congress]] in 2023 for preservation in the United States [[National Recording Registry]] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."<ref>{{cite web |title=2023 National Recording Registry selections |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/registry-by-induction-years/2023/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=12 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="loc2">{{cite web |title=National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Madonna, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee |url=https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/national-recording-registry-inducts-music-from-madonna--mariah-carey--queen-latifah--daddy-yankee/s/5a91b115-3825-4a5f-a702-35940b4de958 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=12 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>