Janice Giteck
Janice Giteck (born June 27, 1946 in New York) is an American composer.
Biography
Giteck grew up in
AIDS patients. Her music has been described as influenced by world and ritual music.[4]
In a 1999 joint interview with composer Ann Sandifur, Giteck and Sandifur described themselves as “life-oriented, not career oriented,” noting that they sought to be “versatile rather than specialized.”[5]
Discography
- New Performance Group in Music (Mode Records, 1988)
- Home (Revisited) (New Albion, 1992)
Partial list of works
- Thunder, Like a White Bear Dancing (1977)
- Callin' Home Coyote (1978)
- TREE (1981) commissioned by San Francisco Symphony
- Soundtrack, Hopi:Songs of the Fourth World (1983)
- Breathing Songs from a Turning Sky (1980; revised 1984)
- Om Shanti (1986)
- Soundtrack, Hearts and Hands (1987)
- Tapasya (1987)
- Leningrad Spring (1992)
- Home (Revisited) (1992)
- Soundtrack, Rabbit in the Moon (1999)
- Soundtrack, Daddy & Papa (2002)
- Ishi (2004) commissioned by Seattle Chamber Players
- Accompanying music to Rene Yung's installation Four Dignities (2005)
References
- ^ Kyle Gann, Biography. Mode Records. Accessed November 3, 2007.
- ^ a b Janice Giteck at Allmusic.com
- ^ Biography, Nonpop.com. Accessed November 3, 2007.
- ^ Review of Home (Revisited). Allmusic.com
- ^ ACMR Reports: Journal of the Association for Chinese Music Research. Music Department and the Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh. 1999. p. 94.
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