Discipline: Music Composition

Tina Davidson

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: PENNSYLVANNIA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Tina Davidson is a highly regarded American composer who creates music that stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. Lauded for her authentic voice, The New York Times praised her “vivid ear for harmony and colors.” OperaNews called her works "transfigured beauty." Davidson has been commissioned and performed by well-known ensembles such as National Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, OperaDelaware, VocalEssence, Kronos Quartet, and Cassatt Quartet, and most recently by Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn.

Davidson’s talents have been recognized with awards of a number of grants and fellowships, including the prestigious Pew Fellowship, the largest such grant in the country for which an artist can apply. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in Oneonta, NY, and now lives in central Pennsylvania.

Studios

Chapman

Tina Davidson worked in the Chapman studio.

Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…

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