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Dawn Avery (Mohawk name Ieriho:kwats) is a composer, cellist, vocalist, and educator. [1] Avery has worked with a range of musicians and is active in both language and cultural preservation as a musician and professor. Avery contributes to the preservation of musical culture by leading workshops and participating in traditional ceremonies.
Indigenous (Nakota) Debora Iyall of Romeo Void (Cowlitz) Jana (Lumbee) Grant-Lee Phillips (Muscogee (Creek)), Red Earth. Redbone, members are mostly Yaqui / Shoshone descent. Keith Secola (Bois Forte Chippewa) John Trudell (Santee Dakota) [6] XIT, members are Colville, Isleta Pueblo, Diné, and Muscogee Creek.
Pages in category "Native American composers". The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Singer, guitarist, author. Instrument (s) Vocals, acoustic guitar. Joanne Lynn Shenandoah (June 23, 1957 – November 22, 2021) was a Native American singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the United States. She was a citizen of the Oneida Indian Nation, Wolf clan, based in New York. Her music combined traditional melodies with a ...
New York City, U.S. Occupation (s) Composer, Pianist. Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed ...
Catherine Murphy Urner Shatto (March 23, 1891 – April 30, 1942) was an American composer. Life [ edit ] Catherine Murphy Urner was born in Mitchell , Indiana , the third of seven children of Southern Illinois Normal College principal Edward Everett Urner (later a Methodist minister) and writer Jessie Robertson Urner.
Natalie Curtis was born on 26 April 1875 in New York City. She studied music at the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City. She also studied in France and Germany, studying with prominent musicians, like Ferruccio Busoni. She came to be fascinated by Native American music, and began to devote herself to its study, which she ...
Katherine Hoover (December 2, 1937 – September 21, 2018) was an American composer of Contemporary classical music and Chamber music, flutist, teacher of Musical composition and Music theory, poet, and later a conductor of her music. [1] [2] Her career as a composer began when few women composers earned recognition in Classical music in the 1970s.