Beth Wiemann was raised in Burlington, VT and studied composition and clarinet at Oberlin College and Princeton University. Her works have been performed by the New York New Music Ensemble, Continuum, Parnassus, Earplay, the Buffalo New Music Ensemble, Washington Square Contemporary Players, ALEA III, singers Paul Hillier, Susan Narucki, D’Anna Fortunato, and others. Her compositions have won awards from the Orvis Foundation, Colorado New Music Festival, American Women Composers, and Marimolin as well as various arts councils. She teaches composition and clarinet at the University of Maine.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Beth Wiemann
Studios
Veltin
Beth Wiemann worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…