Her Chanson Innocente was performed by Dawn Upshaw and Gilbert Kalish at
Carnegie Hall in New York, Herbst Theater in San Francisco, Veteran’s Wadsworth
Theater in Los Angeles, Wigmore Hall in London, Theatre Chatelet in Paris and
at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Her works, Songs of Heaven and Earth, and
Magic Carpet Music for The Theater Chamber Players were premiered at The John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. She has also been
performed by such groups as the The Franz Liszt
Chamber Orchestra of Hungarythe New York Camerata, ALEA III,the Chicago CUBE
Ensemble, Washington D.C.‘s New Music Forum, the New Millennium Ensemble,
Northwestern University New Music Ensemble, Vancouver New Music, Fear No Music
of Portland and the Berkeley and Marin Symphony Orchestras.

Her music has been called "...music of considerable power" by The San Francisco
Chronicle, as "fanciful" by The New York Times, as having " an impressive
luster and transparency", poignant... and "revel(ing) in sinewy counterpoint"...
by The Washington Post, as "reflect(ting) both inner pain and breast beating
wails" bythe Bethesda Gazette, and as having "...an extravagant expressiveness"
by The Seattle Weekly. Her works have been performed at the Aspen, June in
Buffalo, Warebrook, Bowdoin, Bloch, Sandpoint, Pacific Contemporary, Norfolk Chamber Music and April in Santa Cruz Festivals.
She has had residencies at the MacDowell, Yaddo, and Millay Colonies, the
Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and in
July 1997, she was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in
Italy.

Dr. Schwendinger is an Assistant Prof. of Music at The University of Illinois
at Chicago, where she teaches composition and theory. For ten years she was on
the faculty of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Preparatory Division,
where she developed a program for young composers. She has also been a lecturer
at the Music Department of The University of California, Santa Cruz, at Smith
College, and an Associate Researcher at The Five College Women’s Studies
Research Center. Her Chamber Concerto reviewed
in The American Record Guide as "melodic and atmospheric" is available on the
Capstone label.
Ms. Schwendinger is represented by Artists International Management