(August 6, 2004) – Dr. Ann Gebuhr professor of music at Houston Baptist University, has recently been granted a commission from the Foundation for Universal Sacred Music to compose a choral work for performance in New York City in the fall of 2005.
The Foundation for Universal Sacred Music chooses four composers a year for specific grants to promote fine music utilizing texts involving the love of God. Gebuhr will begin working on her piece after finishing the violin concerto she is currently working on.
Gebuhr has published many musical works including her second opera, Bonhoeffer, which premiered in Houston in May 2000 and will be performed in New York City in the spring of 2006 by the Center for Contemporary Opera.
She has won many awards and recognitions including being named the Texas Commissioned Composer by the Texas Music Association for 2004-2005, and she was awarded a Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation for a month-long residency at the Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in 2002.
Gebuhr received her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance, her Master of Music in Theory and her Doctor of Philosophy with a major in Music Theory from Indiana University.
From: News from HBU, Office of Marketing and Communications press release August 6, 2004
Congratulations, Ann!