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About Meira Warshauer
Meira Warshauer’s music has been performed to critical acclaim and heard on broadcast and online media worldwide. At its core, Meira’s music expresses her personal spiritual journey and love for the earth.
Performers and commissioners include orchestras, choruses, chamber ensembles and soloists from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Dr. Warshauer has received many awards, including an American Prize (2019) in orchestra composition for her Symphony Living Breathing Earth, and the American Prize Charles Ives Award in Chamber Music (2024) for Ocean Calling, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Hambidge Center, and the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Her most recent album release is Ocean Calling, a trilogy of environmentally-themed works works for two pianos, recorded for Navona Records. Two CDs with her choral music, Coro del Mundo and Chevere, were recorded in Cuba, and have been released on the Ansonica label. Navona previously released Living Breathing Earth, a CD (NV5842) featuring Symphony Living Breathing Earth and Tekeeyah (a call), concerto for shofar, trombone and orchestra with soloist Haim Avitsur. Parma has also released Five Reflections for string quartet on their Strung Together collection and Albany Records had released her acclaimed Streams in the Desert disk of Torah-based choral/orchestral works. Elijah’s Violin, her family opera based on a Jewish-Egyptian fairy tale, was presented in a semi-staged production in San Francisco in 2019.
Warshauer's music is published by Hildegard, Lauren Keiser Music, World Music Press and Kol Meira Publications.
Visit Meira Warshauer at http://meirawarshauer.com/.
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