As Distinguished Professor at Queens College, City University of New York from September 1987-2002, Musgrave has guided and interacted with many new and gifted young student composers. on the Queen's New Year's Honour List in January 2002. She has also been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1974-75, and again in 1982-83, and was recognized with honorary degrees by Old Dominion University (Virginia), Smith College, Glasgow University and in May 2004, the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 1974 she received the Koussevitzky Award, resulting in the composition of Space Play, which after its London premier was performed in New York by the Lincoln Center Chamber Players. In 1971 she married the American violist and opera conductor Peter Mark, and has resided in the U.S.
In 1970 she became Guest Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which anchored her increasing involvement with the musical life of the United States. It is a measure of her talent and determination that Thea Musgrave has earned great respect for her work both as a composer and conductor at a time when these were still rather uncommon professions for a woman.īorn in Edinburgh, Scotland on, she studied first at the University of Edinburgh and later at the Conservatoire in Paris, where she spent four years as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, before establishing herself back in London as a prominent member of British musical life with her orchestral, choral, operatic, and chamber works. She has also conducted the Jerusalem Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. In the United States she has conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, and St. As a result her works have been widely performed in Britain, Europe and the USA, and at the major music festivals, such as Edinburgh, Warsaw Autumn, Florence Maggio Musicale, Venice Biennale, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Zagreb on most of the European and American broadcasting stations and on many regular symphony concert series.įrom time to time she conducts her own works: the premiere performance of Mary, Queen of Scots at the 1977 Edinburgh International Festival and later with the San Francisco Spring Opera her ballet Beauty and the Beast the premiere performances of The Voice of Ariadne in Britain and again in New York and Los Angeles for the New York City Opera orchestral works with the BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, and the London Sinfonietta also a recording of the Horn Concerto with the Scottish National Orchestra and soloist Barry Tuckwell. Her compositions were first performed under the auspices of the British Broadcasting Corporation and at the Edinburgh International Festival. Rich and powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting contemporary composers in the Western world.
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