- Received her PhD in Composition from Columbia University where she studied under Otto Luening, Jack Beeson and Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center.
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
- Raised in Bolivia from the age of nine.
- In 2002 she won the Annual Composer's Award from the Lancaster Symphony.
- Is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Music at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
- Serves on the Artistic Advisory panel of the BMI Foundation.
- Became the first woman recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Music in 1990 for Silver Ladders.
- Composer and pianist.
- In 1999 she accepted a position as composer-in-residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
- Her pivotal work, "Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman", is her best known work.
- Worked at the Greenwich House where she taught piano.
- Graduated from Bennington College.
- Pianist and founding member of the Da Capo Chamber Players.
- In 1998 she won the Delaware Symphony's Alfred I. DuPont Award for Distinguished American Composer.
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