Maura Bosch [SEP] date of birth
Maura Bosch
Marjorie Ann Hess a.k.a. Maura Bosch (born 1958) is an American composer. She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Hartt College of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978, and at Princeton University where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 2008, after studying with Alexander Lepak, Edward T. Cone, Milton Babbitt and Peter Westergaard.
Career.
She married composer Jeffrey Brooks and lived for a while in Bath,
In 2007 Maura Bosch was in residence with the Tubman Family Alliance, a network of shelters for abused women, to compose a work based on their experiences.
In 2009, Maura Bosch composed and wrote the libretto for her fourth opera, Art and Desire, about a fictional meeting between Lee Krasner and Clement Greenberg twenty years after the death of Krasner's husband, Jackson Pollock.
Works.
Bosch has composed works in a variety of genres including choral, vocal and instrumental works and opera. Selected compositions include: