Marilyn Shrude


Marilyn Shrude is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist, and Distinguished Artist Professor of composition at Bowling Green State University, since 1977.

Life

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Shrude graduated from Alverno College and Northwestern University. Her composition instructors include Alan Stout and M. William Karlins.
She is the founder and former director of the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music and co-directs the Annual New Music & Art Festival. She served as visiting professor of music at Indiana University in the fall of 1998, Heidelberg College, and Oberlin College, and has also taught at the Interlochen Arts Camp.
Her scores are published by American Composers Alliance, Éditions Henry Lemoine, Neue Musik Verlag Berlin, Southern Music, and Thomas House. Her music has been recorded by the New World, Albany, EROL, Liscio, FoxGlove, MMC, Capstone, Orion, Centaur, Neuma, Access, and Ohio Brassworks labels.
Her husband is the classical saxophonist John Sampen, and her daughter the classical/contemporary violinist Maria Sampen, both of whom have performed many of her works.

Awards

She is the winner of a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award and a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Lifetime Achievement Award.
She won a 1998 Cleveland Arts Prize for Music.
She is also a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.