Wendy Durrwachter is a composer of contemporary classical acoustic music. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, she grew up in Green Bay on Lake Michigan. Durrwachter spent many summers on extended camping trips in the lands of the St. Lawrence Divide bordering the US Midwest and Canada - including an unforgettable trip backpacking Isle Royale and a fourteen-day trip paddling the Quetico/Boundary Waters Canoe Area. The time spent in the north woods left some flood basalt deposits on her interpretative lens during adolescence. She went on to spend years following highways of gnarled tree-roots; recipes; iron magnets; gnomes; squires; shepherds; ferrymen; swordsmiths; and wickered wind-patterns; leading ultimately to a residence at the head of the Great Lakes - Duluth, Minnesota. Durrwachter has been awarded an Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Career Development Grant in November 2018 to compose a Divertimento for Wind Quintet to be performed by the University of Minnesota Duluth Faculty Wind Quintet.
EDUCATION:
Wendy Durrwachter began study with piano at age three with Bishop Michael Bent in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She attended summer piano academies at University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; and Indiana University, Bloomington. Durrwachter had the privilege to study piano performance with Duncan McNab and orchestration and composition with Judith Lang Zaimont at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and received a B.A. in piano and composition in 2000.
Wendy Durrwachter began study with piano at age three with Bishop Michael Bent in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She attended summer piano academies at University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; and Indiana University, Bloomington. Durrwachter had the privilege to study piano performance with Duncan McNab and orchestration and composition with Judith Lang Zaimont at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and received a B.A. in piano and composition in 2000.
