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Sky Macklay (born 1988) is an American composer of concert music and an oboist. She was winner of the Leo Kaplan Award (the top prize in the Morton Gould Young Composer Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) in 2013 and 2016.[1][2] Born in Waseca, Minnesota, she completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2018.[3] She is a founding member of Ghost Ensemble.[4] Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of Composition at Valparaiso University.[5] and serves as Lecturer of Composition at the Peabody Institute.[6]

Selected compositions

Macklay has published a complete list of her works.[7] These include:

• Dissolving Bands (2012), an abstract orchestral reflection on the American Revolutionary War, commissioned by the Lexington Symphony and The Walden School for the tercentennial of Lexington, Massachusetts. The title is a reference to the United States Declaration of Independence.[8] It won the 2013 Leo Kaplan Award, the top prize in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.[1]
• Harmonibots (2015), a sonic and kinetic installation of inflatable harmonica-playing robots commissioned by the International Alliance for Women in Music.[9][10]
• Many Many Cadences (2016), a string quartet for Spektral Quartet, Macklay's second ASCAP Award recipient and a Grammy nominee.[11]

References

External links

• Official web site
• Official YouTube Channel
• Official SoundCloud Channel

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