Bunita Marcus is an American pianist and bass clarinetist. She received a Ph.D. in composition from the State University of New York at Buffalo where she held the Edgard Varese Fellowship in Composition and studied with Morton Feldman. Marcus has written commissions for Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Kronos Quartet, Aki Takahashi, the Xenakis Ensemble, Morton Feldman and Soloists, Tokyo‚ Sound-Space ARK Ensemble, and others. Her music has received awards from the National Endowment of the Arts (Composer's Fellowship), the International Society of Contemporary Music/World Music Days, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the League of Composers' National Competition, and the coveted Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at Darmstadt. Today she is active as a composer, conductor and pianist, appearing in concerts and festivals around the world.
Bunita Marcus
Studios
Veltin
Bunita Marcus worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…