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• Exhibition at the Library of Virginia: March 1 2012 - March 31 2012

Judith Shatin has been named one of eight recipients of the 2012 Virginia Women in History honor by The Library of Virginia. Every year, The Library of Virginia seeks to celebrate the accomplishments of women from a variety of careers during March, National Women's History Month. This program began in 2000, and has since transformed into a series of statewide learning activities and exhibitions. "The amazing women featured in the 2012 Virginia Women History program succeeded or excelled in challenging circumstances," said Librarian of Virginia Sandra G. Treadway. "They are being recognized for being visionaries and pioneers, for their courage, creativity, and business acumen."

On Thursday, March 29, 2012, an evening program will be held to recognize the honorees. Judith Shatin was among the honorees for this year, as her composing style of creating "music that blurs the line between acoustic and digital" follows the mission of finding women who develop new approaches to old problems, strive for excellence, and initiate change.

Judith Shatin (www.judithshatin.com) is a composer whose music, called “something magical” by Fanfare, reflects her multiple fascinations with literature and visual arts, with the sounding world, and with the social and communicative power of music. Shatin’s music has been commissioned by groups including the Barlow and Fromm Foundations, the McKim Fund of the Library of Congress, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Arts Partners Program, and ensembles including Ash Lawn Opera, Da Capo Chamber Players, the National and Richmond Symphonies, and many more. Twice a fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, she has held residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the VCCA, La Cité des Arts (France), Mishkan HaAmanim (Israel), among others. A staunch advocate for her fellow composers, she has served on the boards of the League/ISCM, American Composers Alliance, and International Alliance for Women in Music. Also in demand as a master teacher, Shatin has served as BMI composer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, as master composer at California Summer Music, and as senior composer at the Wellesley Composers Forum, among others. She is currently William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia, where she founded the Virginia Center for Computer Music. She is featured in the recent book Women of Influence in Contemporary Music, Nine American Composers (Scarecrow Press, 2010). 

The Virginia Women in History exhibition will be in the lobby of the Library of Virginia throughout the month of March.
A traveling panel display will be at the Albemarle-Charlottesville History Society March 6 through the end of the month.

For more information on The Library of Virginia, or the Virginia Women in History honor, visit their website (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/vawomen/) or view the 2012 Program Poster.