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ABBIE BETINIS is a composer whose music has been called "superb
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Minnesota Public Radio premieres the 45th Burt Family Carol! posted: Dec 2011 From 1922-1954, my family sent an original carol every year in their Christmas cards. I took up the tradition in 2001, and sent out "Carol of the Snow" this year to friends and family. MPR invited me in to premiere it on the air with my friends! Watch a video of our recording session on MPR. Abbie joins music faculty at Concordia University posted: Aug 2011 I've just become "Professor Betinis" (!) with my new position as adjunct Professor of Composition at Concordia University in Saint Paul. I look forward to teaching private composition lessons to a small group of motivated students and alongside a spectacular music faculty. Boston Globe: "Inspired by Psalms, composer sets to music her years spent battling cancer" posted: July 2011 My first chorus and orchestra piece, "Expectans expectavi" got a brilliant write-up in the Boston Globe, and was later reviewed: "The highlight was a world premiere by Abbie Betinis...brooding, dissonant...bold...managed to feel both cathartic and unresolved." Thank you Chorus pro Musica and Betsy Burleigh for this extraordinary commission. Abbie's first New York Times review! posted: June 2011 The New York Times writes: "...But the freshest of these pieces was the program's finale, Abbie Betinis's inventive, richly melodic 'Long Time Trav'ling.'" Thank you New Amsterdam Singers and conductor Clara Longstreth! NPR Music names Abbie in top 100 "Composers Under 40" posted: Apr 2011 NPR Music and New York's WQXR received almost 800 suggestions for their listeners' favorite composers under the age of 40 before narrowing it down to 100 of the "most promising young composers in the world." I made the list (!), alongside my heroes Nico Muhly, John Mackey, Tarik O'Regan, Joby Talbot, and Esperanza Spalding. see all news 
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