Judith Shatin

Judith Shatin is a composer and sound artist whose musical practice engages our social, cultural, and physical environments. Timbral exploration and dynamic narrative design are fundamental to her compositional design, while collaboration with musicians, artists and community groups are central to her musical life. Shatin’s music has been commissioned by organizations including the Barlow Endowment and Fromm Foundations, Carnegie Hall, the McKim Fund of the Library of Congress, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Arts Partners Program, Music-at-LaGesse Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts . It has been featured at festivals including Aspen, BAM Next Wave, Grand Teton, Havana in Spring, Moscow Autumn, Network for New Music, Seal Bay, Soundways (St. Petersburg), and West Cork, while orchestras that have presented her music include the Denver, Houston, Illinois, Knoxville, National, Minnesota and Richmond Symphonies, as well as American Composers Orchestra. Shatin has held residencies at Bellagio (Italy), Brahmshaus (Germany), Stiftung Dr. Robert und Lina Thyll-Dürr, Casa Zia Lina (Italy), La Cité des Arts (France), Mishkan Omanim (Israel), and in the U.S. at MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.