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Loretta Jankowski (b. 1950) is a prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music. She is also a noted pedagogue, having filled faculty positions at a number of prominent American Universities and having received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Piano Teachers Society of America. Her music is published by the American Composers Alliance. Loretta Jankowski

Biography
In the 1960’s, Dr. Jankowski, a native of New Jersey, studied composition and theory in the Preparatory Division of the Juilliard School of Music. She later received a Masters of Music Degree in Composition from the University of Michigan and a Ph. Degree in Composition from The Eastman School of Music. She supplemented this with work at Dartington, England with Harrison Birtwistle and Morton Feldman, and with three months in Cracow, Poland with Marek Stachowski.

Earning her living mostly as a teacher, Dr. Jankowski has taught on the faculties of Northern Illinois University at Dekalb, California State University at Long Beach, Ball State University at Muncie, Indiana, and East Carolina University at Greenville, North Carolina. From 1981-1983, she was Adjunct Professor of Composition at Kean University, resuming that post in 1986. In August, 1987, she was Composer-in-Residence at Bennington College in Vermont. 

Loretta Jamkowski's music
Lustrations for orchesrra "“ … a thoroughly stimulating work, beautifully crafted, and filled with a sense of magic and sensuality that calls for playing of a very high order … This is an important voice in American music today.”" New York Times, Robert C. March

Performances of Dr’ Jankowski’s music have taken place at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, at the Museum of Modern Art, at Holy Trinity Chapel at New York University, at Yale University, and at the Fifth International Festival of Experimental Music in Bourges, France[. Loretta Jankowski

Ensembles performing her works have included the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, Composers Concordance, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Mount Vernon Chamber Orchestra, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, the United States Bicentennial Band, and the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Artists who have performed her music are Maestro Julius Rudel, soprano Teresa Kubiak, tenor George Shirley, and pianist Carol Ferri.

Orchestral

 * Chaconne for Piano and Orchestra (1986)
 * Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet + String Orchestra (1987)
 * Gallic Overture (1995)
 * Jericho (1992)
 * Lustrations for orchestra

Vocal/choral Orchestra

 * Jerusalem (Orchestrated Version) (1985)
 * Psalms 13 + 113 (Orchestrated version) (1994)
 * Inside The Cage, Empty Air (1975), 30 womens voices, guitar, 3 soprano recorders, 2 alto recorders, 2 tenor recorders, bass recorder, percussion, harpsichord
 * Phoenix (1989), high voice, piano
 * A Song on the End of the World (1987), Soprano, Violin, Cello, Piano
 * Paterson Songs, tenor and mixed quintet

Chamber/Instrumental

 * Alleluia Fanfare with Variations (1994), organ
 * Chaconne (1999), piano with choice of the following: fl, ob, B-flat cl, sop sax, ten sax
 * Contrasts (1987), B-flat Clarinet, Violin, Piano
 * Four Haiku (1983), Tpt, Perc(2)
 * A Naughty Boy - Continuo Music Press (1979), Soprano, Clarinet, and Piano
 * Sonata for B-flat Trumpet and Piano (1970), B-flat Trumpet and Piano
 * Toccatella (1994), B-flat trumpet and piano
 * Todesband (1973), Wind Ensemble

Piano

 * Demeanour
 * Etude #1 (1993)
 * Homage to Chopin (1981)
 * Images 1 (1984)
 * Rubies of Memories (1989), piano 4 hands
 * Band Todesband

Categories
Category:Ball State University faculty Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:Bennington College faculty Category:American classical composers