Biography

Srinivasan, Asha
Department: Music Department
Office: KA 202
Lecturer
Phone: 410-337-6276
Email: asha.srinivasan@goucher.edu
Website: http://www.twocomposers.org

Asha Srinivasan is an active composer in the Baltimore/Washington area. She recently won the BMI Foundation's First Annual Women's Music Commission, as well as the Walsum and the Prix d'Ete competitions. Performances include a recent premiere of the commissioned work, By the River Near Savathi, for clarinet and string trio, by The St. Luke's Ensemble, and Kalpitha, for string quartet, premiered by the Left Bank Quartet. Her electronic pieces have been performed at the SEAMUS Conference (2004 & 2007), the Spark Festival, the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, and The Women in New Music Festival. She earned two Master's degrees in Computer Music Composition and Music Theory Pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, under the tutelage of Dr. Greg Boyle, Dr. Geoff Wright, and Dr. Paul Mathews. She is currently working on her DMA in Composition at the University of Maryland, College Park, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Gibson.