Julia Stilman-Lasansky

Ada Julia Stilman-Lasansky^[1] (February 3, 1935 – March 29, 2007)^[2] was an Argentine composer^[3] who moved to the United States in 1964.^[4]

Stilman-Lasansky was born in Buenos Aires,^[5] where she studied piano with Roberto Castro and composition with Gilardo Gilardi. After moving to the United States, she earned a M.M. and D.M.A. at the University of Maryland, then pursued further studies at Yale University. Stilman-Lasansky’s teachers included Leon Kirchner, Lawrence Moss,^[6] Krysztof Penderecki, and Morton Subotnick.^[7]

Stilman-Lasansky received a Phi Kappa Phi award in 1972 and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 1974. The NEA commissioned her Cantata No. 4. Stilman-Lasansky was a member of the American Society of University Composers.^[8] She lived in Maryland for many years, and died in Paris in 2007.^[2]

Stilman-Lasansky’s compositions included:

Chamber

• Cello Quartet^[7]

• Cuadrados y Angulos (trumpet, sax, piano and timpani; text by Alfonsina Storni)^[7]

• Etudes (string quatrtet)^[7]
• Etudes (woodwind quintet)^[9]

Orchestral and Choral

• The Facets of Diamond Love (cycle of 5 cantatas)^[10]
  • Cantata No. 1 El Oro Intio (bass and orchestra; text by Amado Nervo)^[7]
  • Cantata No. 2 Cantares de la Madre Joven (seven female soloists and orchestra; text by Rabindranath Tagore)^[11][7]
  • Cantata No. 3 Barcarola (chorus^[5] and orchestra; text by Pablo Neruda)^[12][13]
  • Cantata No. 4 Magic Rituals of the Golden Dawn (text by William Butler Yeats)^[7][14]
  • Cantata No. 5 Magic Rituals (circa 1997) (setting of "A deep sworn vow" by William Butler Yeats and the first strophe of the Old French "Le lai des amants")^[15]

Piano

• Sonata Visiones Primera^[7]

Solo vocal

• songs^[16]