Beth Wiemann was raised in Burlington, VT, studied composition and clarinet at Oberlin College and received her Ph.D. in composition from Princeton University. Her works have been performed nationally and internationally by the ensembles Continuum, Transient Canvas, Earplay, Guerilla Opera, and others. Her compositions have won awards from the Orvis Foundation, Copland House, the Colorado New Music Festival, New York Treble Singers, and regional arts councils. She teaches clarinet, composition and music theory at the University of Maine.
Recordings of Wiemann's music include Why Performers Wear Black on Albany Records in 2004, and works on the New Focus Recordings, Navona, Ravello, Capstone, innova, and Americus record labels. A recording of her chamber opera I Give You My Home for Guerilla Opera was released on Parma in 2023, and also made into a film released by Guerilla. Her compositions are available from American Composers Edition in New York.
At MacDowell in 2026, Wiemann worked on the first draft of a piece for the Bangor Symphony, for soprano and orchestra, with texts by Jennifer Moxley and Wallace Stevens. She also continued work on a fairy-tale opera on the French story "Blondine," which had two scenes workshopped at the Longy School of Music in 2024. She has upcoming performances at the University of Georgia New Music Festival and the Splice Festival in spring 2026.
