Jane Corner Young
Jane Corner Young was an American composer, music therapist, and pianist. She was born in Athens, Ohio, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Ohio University in 1936. She completed a master of music degree in piano and composition in 1953 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Young studied piano with Beryl Rubinstein and Arthur Loesser; composition with Marcel Dick; and Dalcroze eurythmics with Elsa Findlay and Ann Lombardo.
Young taught privately and in public schools for over 27 years, and was a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She chaired the Cleveland Composers' Guild when it was formed in 1957, and also served as the director of music therapy at Hawthornden State Hospital in Northfield, Ohio.
Young's awards include:
- Ohio University Music Fellowship
- Cleveland Institute Alumni Award
- Mu Phi Epsilon
Chamber
- Essences
Piano
- Andante Espressivo
- Caprice
- Children's Picture Pieces
- Dramatic Soliloquy
- First Journey
- Five Duets for Matched Students
- Five Tone Thoughts and Summary
- Four Recital Pieces
- I Won't Go
- Piano Gambol
- Schumanniana
- Two Humorous PIeces
- Two Short Studies
- Two Study Pieces
- Variations on an American Sea Shanty
- Yesterday/Today
Vocal
- Blues Art Song: Who There to Know
- Captive
- Fantasy
- How I Like a Wild Tame Bird
- Story of Fay
- Such is Her Love
- Untidy Sun
- We People Song Cycle