Ann M. Callaway

Ann Marie Callaway (born October 28, 1949) is an American composer.

Callaway was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Baltimore, and began her musical training under Grace Newsom Cushman. She studied with Alvin Etler at Smith College, George Crumb at University of Pennsylvania and with Jack Beeson, Fred Lerdahl and George Edwards at Columbia University, where she earned her D.M.A. in 1991.

Callaway’s compositions have been widely broadcast in the U.S., and she is the subject of a documentary produced by Swedish Radio. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Guild of Organists, and has held residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the Leighton Artist Colony in Banff.^[1] She is a recipient of the Fred Waring Award,^[2] and the Miriam Gideon Prize.^[3]

In 1984 Callaway was one of the founders of the New York Women Composers, Inc., an organization that supports women composers in the State of New York and the Greater New York City area through catalogs, events and grants.^[4]

Callaway has composed several notable works for the clarinet, and bass clarinet, listed in the below section. Most of her music is published by Subito Music, and other works you can purchase by contacting her directly. Read more of her biography, from which the above is excerpted, on wikipedia.org, or, visit her website at annmcallaway.com.