Celebrating Linda Dusman

After 37 years of teaching in higher education, including 25 years at UMBC, composer Linda Dusman will retire at the end of 2025. The campus community is invited to celebrate her creativity and contributions with a concert of her works performed by UMBC faculty:

Linda Dusman explores the territory between concert music and sonic art in her creative practice. She examines the natural world, current politics, and the human experience as a catalyst for constructing listening experiences that encourage a heightened awareness of the moment. Recent works include Terra Mycelia, composed for the Ruckus ensemble for premiere in 2024, and Infinite Transformations, a bioart installation created collaboratively with Foad Hamidi, Alan Wonneberger, Lee Boot, and Ryan Zuber which premiered in 2023. Triptych of Gossips, a setting of Serena Hilsinger’s eponymous epic poem, has become a cornerstone of Duo della Luna’s repertoire, and in 2024 received the Miriam Gideon award from the International Alliance for Women in Music. Dusman’s solo CD Flashpoint was released by NEUMA Records in 2023 to critical acclaim.

Dusman’s work has been awarded by the International Alliance for Women in Music, Meet the Composer, the Swiss Women’s Music Forum, the American Composers Forum, the International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Ucross Foundation, and the State of Maryland in 2004, 2006, and 2011 (in both the Music: Composition and the Visual Arts: Media categories). Her works are published by I Resound Press and Neuma Publications, and are recorded on the NEUMA, Capstone, and New Albany labels.