Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy

Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy writes for chamber groups, voice, orchestra, contemporary dance and mixed media. She was Composer in Residence for Dance and Theater Arts at Bennington College and Cornell University.

Awards and Grants include the NEA and NEH Endowments, the Georgia Commission on the Arts, Meet the Composer grants ,and the Cornell Council for Creative and Performing Arts. She was a winner in the Philadelphia Classical Symphony/Maxfield Parrish and Women Composers' Showcase, New Jersey City University, competitions.

Commissions include the Walker Art Center, Cornell Theater Arts Dept., several choreographers and commissions for 20th and 21st century works.

Performances include the Alabama Symphony. Atlanta String Quartet and Relache Ensemble; venues at Eastman School of music, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, the Bowling Green College of Musical Arts Festival,''05, and abroad in Paris, Upsala and Beijing.

She is published by ACA, in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, American Composers Alliance, and EC Schirmer Publishing. CDs are on Capstone, ACA Digital and Euterpe labels.

Fairlie-Kennedy is a member of ACA, SCI, AMC, IAWM, NYCC and BMI.
Some reviewers comments: "Expressive use of a 12 tone row...eloquence and energy... atmospheric and dreamy" N.Y. Times. "extended the usual sonorities of the instruments... its emotional focus was strong and the expressive range of the instruments spoke well for the composer's gift." Philadelphia Inquirer; "Mr. Ueyama's opening dance was set to urgent and atmospheric music by Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy" N.Y. Times Dance Review. '05.

Summer Solstice (2007) world premiere

The Summer Solstice begins in the pre-dawn, a mystic time of pagan rites, lovers' trysts and poignant moments, wild dances and lighthearted frolic.