Emma lou diemer biography of alberta brown

Diemer was born in Kansas City, Missouri , on November 24, Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, and others. Works include many collections and single pieces for organ as well as many for solo piano, piano 4 hands, and two pianos. Her major chamber works include a piano quartet, string quartet, two piano trios, and sonatas and suites for flute, violin, cello, and piano as well as settings of the psalms for organ with other instruments.

Diemer wrote many choral works as well. She had written numerous hymns, several of which appear in church hymnals. Diemer's compositional style over the years has varied from tonal to atonal, from traditional to experimental. She had written works for non-professional and professional performers, originally under the "Gebrauchsmusik" philosophy, but produced many works, particularly for keyboard, that are difficult and challenging.

The totally serial "Declarations" for organ contrasts to the more tonal concerto for violin and orchestra "Summer Day".

Composer, pianist, and organist Emma Lou Diemer is an active keyboard performer (piano, organ, harpsichord, synthesizer), and has given concerts of her own.

Her work in the electronic field during her years on the faculty of the University of California influenced a number of works including her Toccata for piano that has a number of performances on YouTube. Diemer died in Santa Barbara, California , on June 2, , at the age of Diemer took composition lessons with Gardner Read while still at high school.

M from the Yale School of Music in and , respectively. She then went on to study composition in Brussels, Belgium on a Fulbright Scholarship from to , ultimately returning to the United States to receive her Ph. D from the Eastman School of Music in She was professor emerita, from to She was composer-in-residence with the Santa Barbara Symphony