Lee Heuermann
Lee Heuermann, composer and singer/actor, has composed pieces for a variety of musical mediums. Her music reflects an interest in ritual, myth, and cultural commentary, as seen in her dramatic works, Wearing Water/Eating Cement (Icons To Kiss), a collaborative composition-installation/performance piece with visual artist Elizabeth Lide, and Come Slowly Eden, a dramatic song cycle for three sopranos and chamber ensemble, based on the poetry of Emily Dickenson. Most recently, Heuermann composed Ridge of Blue Longing, for two pianos, as the commissioned Montana State Composer by Montana Music Teacher’s Association (MMTA). She has collaborated with choreographer Amy Ragsdale, composing and performing for the Montana Transport Dance Company, and most recently she composed and performed Montana Suite II, collaborating with New York choreographer Donna Uchizono and Headwaters Dance Company of Missoula, Montana. Heuermann has received a National Endowment for the Arts Interarts/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and was Artist in Residence in composition at the Banff Center for the Arts in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
As a singer, she specializes in the performance of contemporary music and performs both standard classical repertoire and experimental jazz. Heuermann performed Lust Into Small Change, which was a one-woman cabaret show based on her interpretations of Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill, and Edith Piaf’s music of She has a Ph.D. in Composition from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). At the Yale School of Music, where she received a Master of Music degree, she was the recipient of the Bradley-Keeler Memorial Award to Outstanding Major in Composition, and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. She has studied composition with Betsy Jolas, Jacob Druckman, Lukas Foss, and Daria Semegen. Additionally, Heuermann has a special interest in ethnomusicology, and has studied both the vocal music of North India, and the vocal polyphonic tradition of two African forest communities.
She is co-founder, along with her husband Charles Nichols, of the duo Painted Carp, premiering interactive computer music for processed voice and MIDI violin. Heuermann currently teaches in the
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