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Kathleen Ginther Lecturer 303 Altgeld 618-453-3271
Kathleen Ginther's music has been widely performed in Chicago and the Midwest in concerts at the Ravinia Festival, The Art Institute of Chicago, Orchestra Hall Ballroom, Northwestern and DePaul Universities, the Chicago Cultural Center and MoMing Performance Center, among other venues. She has been featured live on the WFMT programs Music in Chicago, Live from Studio One and the The Studs Terkel Show as well as on the WBEZ program Metropolis. Recently her works have begun to attract national and international recognition as well, appearing on concerts on the East and West Coasts, in England, Scotland, Holland, China, Japan and Brazil. She has received honors and awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Artists International Program, the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, Northwestern University, the Festiva Nuova Musica in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Hospitalfield House of Arbroath, Scotland, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The American String Teachers Association, the Utrecht Conservatory and the Aspen Music School.
Ms. Ginther received all of her musical degrees in the Chicago area: her Doctorate from Northwestern University, her Masters from DePaul University and her Bachelors from the University of Illinois in Chicago. She also studied electronic and computer music at Aspen Music School in addition to advanced composition seminars at Darmstadt, Aspen, and Tanglewood. Her music includes solo, chamber, orchestral, electronic and computer works, music for dance and film, and an opera-in-progress. An active member of Chicago's new music scene, Ms. Ginther is deeply involved with the performance of music by women composers, and served six terms as President of American Women Composers Midwest, one of the most enterprising new music organizations in Chicago. She is also a long-term Board Member of the innovative Chicago Composers Consortium. Ms. Ginther teaches music theory and composition.
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