Joan Tower

Joan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist, and conductor. Her work has been performed worldwide. Since gaining recognition for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia (1981), a tone poem that structurally depicts a giant tree from trunk to needles, she has…

Albums

• Skyscraper Soup (2025)
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra / Cuban Overture / Tower: 1920/2019 / Stucky: Dreamwaltzes (2024)
• Strike Zones / Small / Still/Rapids / Ivory and Ebony (2021)
• Gershwin: Concerto in F / Tower: Sequoia / Piston: Symphony no. 5 / Harbison: Remembering Gatsby (2020)
• String Quartets nos. 3-5 / Dumbarton Quintet (2016)
• Violin Concerto / Stroke / Chamber Dance (2015)
• American Music for Percussion • 1 (2011)
• Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra (2007)
• Instrumental Music (2005)
• First Edition (2004)
• Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman (1999)
• The American Piano Concerto (1998)
• Joan Tower Concertos (1997)
• Black Topaz (1995)
• Divertimento (1995)
• Silver Ladders / Island Prelude / Music for Cello and Orchestra / Sequoia (1990)