Deborah Thurlow - AS, BA, MFA

Horn/Composer/Conductor

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Deborah Thurlow earned a CUNY BA through the Local 802 Music Program at Kingsborough CC/Lehman College in 1990 and a MFA in performance from SUNY Purchase in 1993. She is a resident of Teaneck , New Jersey and a freelance musician in the New York area and in Europe . In 1999 she produced a two-day music event, Next Horn Wave , where she put together horn players from the East and West coasts and Europe to perform music devoted to the art of both contemporary and jazz improvisation. She has been favorably reviewed in the press, including the NY Times. In addition, her one act play with music, The Creative Void Of The Planet Earth , had an Equity Showcase run of seven performances in April 1997 by the New Media Repertory under the direction of Miranda MacDermot. In the past she has performed with the Pina Baush Ballet Company, Franz Kaman, David Amram, Anthony Davis, The New York Composers Orchestra, and many others too numerous to mention.

She studied both composition and orchestration with John Corigliano at Lehman College .She has received grants from Meet the Composer, ASCAP Awards, William Petshek Music Fund and the Puffin Cultural Foundation. Her works are published with Ensemble Publications/Nichols Music Company and DSM Producers who caters to the film and tv industry exclusively. She has received grants from Meet the Composer, William Petshek Music Fund, The Puffin Cultural Foundation and also Composer in Residence at Morehead State University in Kentucky in the summer of 1988 and has been reviewed favorably in the New York Times and other printed media. Her one act play with music The Creative Void Of The Planet Earth, had an Equity Showcase of seven performances in April of 1997 by the New Media Repertory under the direction of Miranda MacDermot. She has four recordings to her credit, Angelic Waves - Part 1 (2000), Angelic Waves - Part 2 (2003) are independent releases and I Am (2001), Patchworks (2004) on the Capstone Records label. In 2008 she will release her fifth CD, The Darwin Effect, with Capstone Records

GRANTS & AWARDS

Puffin Foundation Grant - 2006

Wall of Fame - 2004 - Kingsborough Community College

ASCAP Award - 1995

Meet the Composer 1996 - Williamsburg Music Center

Meet the Composer 1996 - That! New Arts Group

ASCAP Award - 1996

Meet the Composer 1992 - Harlem School of the Arts

Meet the Composer 1991 - Microfest

Meet the Composer 1990 - Downtown Music Productions

Graduate Minority Fellowship - SUNY Purchase - 1990

The Rosa Riegelman Heintz Scholarship in Music - Lehman College - 1989, 1990

William Petshek Music Fund 1988 - Jewish Association for Services for the Aged

AFFILIATIONS

AFM Local 802, 16 & 248

ASCAP

Chamber Music America

Electronic Music Foundation

Golden Key Honor Society

International Horn Society

Recording Academy

Sound Healers Association

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