Reena Esmail
Reena Esmail is an Indian-American music composer of Indian and Western classical music.
Esmail has been commissioned to compose pieces for ensembles including Amherst College Choir and Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Conspirare, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Composer Andrew Norman selected her work for violin Darshan for a 2020 feature in The New York Times, calling it "familiar and fresh, intimate and epic, grounded and aloft."
Honors and awards
- United States Artist Fellow in Music 2019
- S&R Foundation Washington Award Grand Prize 2019
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Citizen Artist Fellow 2017-2018
- Two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
- Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2012
- INK Fellow 2011
- Winner in the MTAC-WLA Chamber Music Competition for piano performance
- Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Scholar 2011-2012
Works
Solo
- Jhula Jhule, for violin and piano
- Nadiya, version for violin and bassoon
- Take What You Need, for unaccompanied violin
- Hallelujah, unaccompanied violin
- Darshan, unaccompanied violin
- Blaze, for violin and tabla
- Concerto for You, solo violin and youth string orchestra
- Drishti , miniatures for unaccompanied violin