Carolyn Yarnell

Composer/visual artist CAROLYN YARNELL holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Yale University. She studied as a pianist under Mack McCray, percussion with Peggy Lucchesi, and composition with Elinor Armer, John Adams, Andrew Imbrie, Jacob Druckman, Withold Lutoslawski, Martin Bresnick, Nicholas Maw, Frederik Rzewski, Oliver Knussen, Lucas Foss, Poul Ruders and Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson. Yarnell's music encompasses a broad spectrum of style and media, ranging from orchestral works and electronic soundscapes, to solo and chamber music performed on both modern and early instruments; computer music, multi-disciplinary works, children's songs, and improvisatory space music with a metal tinge. Ms. Yarnell's works have been commissioned & performed by the best orchestras and performers around the world. Honors include the National Endowment for the Arts (for music and painting), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Music Center, ASCAP, The Institute of International Education (Fulbright Fellowship to Iceland - for music inspired by landscape), the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Tanglewood Music Center, Meet the Composer, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. Although her works are varied, they have the common thread of being distinctly evocative.