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commissions and recordings are a testament to her fruitful collaborations with a long list
of world-renowned artists, including The King’s Singers, Benita Valente, and Frederica
von Stade, among others. Her works are widely recorded on such labels as Angel∕EMI,
Nonesuch, Decca, and Koch International.
As a past holder of the 2003-2004 Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education at the
Library of Congress and recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from the
Massachusetts Institute OfTechnology as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Libby Larsen is a vigorous, articulate
champion of the music and musicians of our time. In 1973, she со-founded (with
Stephen Paulus) the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composers Forum,
which has been an invaluable advocate for composers in a difficult, transitional time for
American arts. Consistently sought-after as a leader in the generation of millennium
thinkers, Libby Larsen’s music and ideas have refreshed the concert music tradition and
the composer’s role in it.