Bush Foundation Fellowships

Maura Bosch

2009 Bush Artist Fellowship
Minnesota

Career Field: Music Composition
Secondary Field: Chamber

Composer Maura Bosch (Minneapolis, MN), born in Reading, Pennsylvania, studied music at Hartt School of Music, the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and Princeton University where her teachers included Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky and Gunther Schuller. Bosch has composed many pieces for solo piano, piano and voice, chamber ensemble, chamber orchestra and opera. She has collaborated with poets, including James Merrill, with whom she created the libretto for her opera Mirabell’s Book of Numbers. She has received commissions and grants from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Dale Warland Singers, Cantus, the Jerome Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the American Composers Forum and the Walker Art Center. Recently, Bosch completed the libretto, as well as the music, for her fourth opera, Art and Desire, about the life and work of Jackson Pollock, which received its premiere at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in February 2009.