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Faye-Ellen Silverman began her music studies before the age of four at the Dalcroze School of Music. She first achieved national recognition by winning the Parents League Competition, judged by Leopold Stokowski, at the age of 13. She holds a BA from Barnard, an AM from Harvard, and a DMA from Columbia in music composition. Her teachers have included Otto Luening, William Sydeman, Leon Kirchner, Lukas Foss, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Jack Beeson. Seesaw Music, a division of Subito Music Corp., publishes about 70 of her compositions. Zigzags is available on Crystal Records, and Passing Fancies, Restless Winds, and Speaking Alone are on New World Recordings. Silverman's awards include the selection of her Oboe-sthenics to represent the United States at the International Rostrum of Composers/UNESCO, resulting in international radio broadcasts (1982); winning the Indiana State [Orchestral] Composition Contest, resulting in a performance by the Indianapolis Symphony (1982); a Governor's Citation (1982); and having September 30, 1982 named Faye-Ellen Silverman Day in Baltimore by Mayor Donald Schaeffer. Additionally, she has been the recipient of the National League of American Pen Women’s biennial music award (2002), yearly Standard Awards from ASCAP since 1983, several Meet the Composer grants, and an American Music Center grant. She was a resident scholar at the Villa Serbelloni of the Rockefeller Foundation (1987), a Composers' Conference Fellow (1985), a Yaddo Fellow (1984), and a MacDowell Fellow (1982). She is currently a Board Member of the International Women's Brass Conference (for which she served as composer-in-residence), and a founding member of Music Under Construction, a composers’ collective. The Baltimore Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, the New Orleans Philharmonic, the International Experimental Music Festival in Bourges, ISCM - Korea section, Grupo Musica Hoje (Brazil), the Monday Evening Concert series (L.A.), and the Aspen Music Festival have performed Dr. Silverman’s works. She has received (paid) commissions from anonymous, Philip A. De Simone (in memory of Linda J. Warren), Thomas Matta, the International Women’s Brass Conference for Junction, the Monarch Brass Quintet, the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, the Great Lakes Performing Artist Associates, the Con Spirito woodwind quintet, the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore, and a joint commission from the American Brass Quintet, the Catskill Brass Quintet, the Mt. Vernon Brass Players, and the Southern Brass quintet (under the National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Program). Silverman is also the author of several articles, record reviews for The Baltimore Sun, and the 20th century section of the Schirmer History of Music. She has taught at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, and several branches of the City University of New York and at Columbia University. She has been a member of the Mannes College faculty since 1991, and of its Extension Division since 1995. She also teaches at the Eugene Lang College, a division of The New School in New York. An accomplished pianist as well, she has recorded for Radio Cologne (WDR), and has performed at the International Festival of Experimental Music in Bourges, the Library of Congress, and as soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic.

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Title	Ensemble Type	Composed	Duration	Media
Protected Sleep	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2006	00:09:00
Left Behind	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2006	00:11:00
Love Songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2005	00:12:30
Translations	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2005	00:06:00
Hymn Of Compassionate Love	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	2005	00:13:30
Pregnant Pauses	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2005	00:09:00
Taming The Furies	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	2004	00:04:35
Of Wood And Skins	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:11:00
Meetings	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2003	00:09:00
Alternating Currents	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:07:00
Double Threat	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:06:00
Reconstructed Music	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2002	00:07:30
From Sorrow	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	00:10:30
Triple Threat	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2001	00:07:30
Wilde's World	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	2000	00:14:00
Dialogue Continued	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	2000	00:09:30
Obsessions	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1999	00:09:00
Trial Balance	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1999	00:06:00
Love Songs	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1997	00:12:30
At The Colour Café	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1997	00:10:00
Two/Three	Keyboard	1996	00:03:00
Processional	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1996	00:07:15
Paula's Song	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1996	00:09:00
Duplex Variations	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1995	00:11:00
Mariana	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1995	00:11:00
Just For Fun	Orchestra	1994	00:10:30
Connections	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1994	00:11:00
Azure Skies	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1993	00:07:30
Unquiet Dreams	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:09:00
Xenium	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:08:00
First Position	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1992	00:07:00
Journey Towards Oblivion	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1991	00:10:00
Pas De Deux	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1991	00:06:00
A Free Pen	Opera/Theater	1990	00:33:00
Candlelight	Orchestra	1988	00:16:00
Zigzags	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1988	00:08:30
Adhesions	Orchestra	1987	00:12:00
Hollowed Refrains	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1987	00:11:09
Bridges In Time	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1986	00:10:00
Restless Winds	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1986	00:05:00
Passing Fancies	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1985	00:16:00
Gliffs	Keyboard	1984	00:15:00
Volcanic Songs	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1983	00:10:00
On Four	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1983	00:11:33
Layered Lament	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1983	00:05:37
No Strings	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1982	00:10:00
Trysts	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1982	00:05:30
Quantum Quintet	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1982	00:12:30
Kalends	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1981	00:15:00
Winds And Sines	Orchestra	1981	00:15:00
Speaking Together	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1981	00:09:45
Yet For Him	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1980	00:10:00
3 Guitars	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1980	00:13:00
Oboe-sthenics	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1980	00:06:45
To Love?	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1980	00:09:15
Stirrings	Orchestra	1979	00:13:00
Echoes Of Emily	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1979	00:06:30
Three By Three	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1979	00:08:00
Settings	Keyboard	1978	00:09:30
Shadings	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1978	00:10:00
Windscape	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1977	00:05:09
Speaking Alone	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1976	00:05:00
String Quartet (Untitled)	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1976	00:09:00
Dialogue	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1976	00:04:30
Conversations	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1975	00:05:17
For Him	Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice	1975	00:10:00
Memories	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1974	00:08:30
The Miracle Of Nemirov	Opera/Theater	1974	00:30:00
K. 1971	Opera/Theater	1972	00:20:00
For Showing Truth	Chorus, with or without Solo Voices	1972	00:04:35
Madness: Three Bagatelles For Small Orchestra And Narrator	Orchestra	1972	00:05:13
In Shadow	Voice, Solo or With Chamber or Jazz Ensemble	1972	00:06:30
Three Movements For Saxophone Alone	Solo instrument, non-keyboard	1971	00:06:30