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Beth Denisch’s music has been performed at Moscow’s Concert Studio of Radio Kultura, in Russia, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, across the U.S., and in Canada, China, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, Japan, and Scotland. Her music has received radio play and tracks are available on streaming services; CDs from Albany, Juxtab, Odyssey, Interval, and the Rebecca Clarke Society record labels. Scores are published/distributed by Juxtab Music, ClearNote Publications, and TrevCo Music. Denisch frequently draws inspiration from artists as well as authors such as Henry James in Sorrow and Tenderness, commissioned by the Handel and Haydn Society; Jeanette Winterson, for Jordan and the Dog Woman, commissioned by the Equinox Chamber Players; and Kathleen Jamie’s The Tree House, commissioned by the Concord Women’s Chorus. The Calyx Trio recently commissioned, Factor Fiction and the Radius Ensemble commissioned Star IV. Many ensembles and organizations have awarded Denisch including the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow for Fire Mountain Intermezzo; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with the Philadelphia Classical Symphony for The Singing Tree, inspired by the Maxfield Parrish painting; and the Composers Guild for Motherwell Lorca’s Bagpipe Lament (piano solo version). Others who have supported Denisch’s music include The PatsyLu Fund of Open Meadows Foundation, American Music Center, Our Bodies Ourselves, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Denisch was Conference Director for Women, Feminist, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today Joint Conference of the International Alliance for Women in Music and the Feminist Theory & Music 15 group at Berklee College of Music where she is Professor of Composition and teaches Music Composition and Theory. She authored “Contemporary Counterpoint“ (Berklee Press/Hal Leonard) and her string quartets are available on the CD “Phantasmagoria” (RCS).