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09.13.11: Peter Dobrin writes about Lembit's new composer-in-residence position in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
09.12.11: Lembit is appointed the Composer In Residence of the Opera Company of Philadelphia in collaboration with Gotham Chamber Opera and Music Theatre Group of New York.
04.26.11: Lembit is awarded a CAP grant from the American Music Center for the Opera Vista performance of And Then I Remember.
03.16.11: Lembit performs several piano pieces and is interviewed on KUHF, Houston Public Radio, along with the organizers and judges of the 2011 Opera Vista Festival.
03.14.11: And Then I Remember called a "magnificent masterpiece to remember" in the Houston Chronicle.
03.13.11 And Then I Remember "[evokes] laughter at times, chilling nostalgia and a sense of timelessness" writes Joel Luks on Houston Culture Map.
12.06.10: Stories from My Grandmother won first place in the 2010 Con Vivo Composition Competition.
06.05.10: Stories from My Grandmother was awarded an honorable mention in the Brian M. Israel composition competition.
06.03.10: And Then I Remember (complete audio and video) has been posted on vimeo.
04.25.10: Audio (complete) and video (excerpts) have been posted for And Then I Remember.
03.27.10: And Then I Remember was chosen by audience vote as the winner of the 2010 Opera Vista competition. ATIR will be performed in its entirety in Houston in the spring of 2011.
01. 20.10: And Then I Remember DVDs have arrived! Email lembitbeecher@gmail.com for ordering information.
01. 13.10: Awarded a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center this summer.
10. 05.09: And Then I Remember chosen as a semi-finalist in the Opera Vista Competition. The next round of the competition will take place in Houston in March.
09.18.09: Stories From My Grandmother won second prize in the 2009 Austin Peay State University Young Composers' Competition.
06. 17.09: Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Denison University for the fall of 2009.
05. 11.09: Received DMA in Composition from the University of Michigan.
03. 15.09: Received an Emerging Democracy Fellowship from the Center for Russian and East European Studies, Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, Center for World Performance Studies Grant and International Institute Grant to support the performance of And Then I Remember.
05.01.08: Awarded a graduate student fellowship at the University of Michigan Institute for Humanities, 2008-2009.
03.28.08: Awarded a Rackham International Research Award and a CRIF fellowship from the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies for summer dissertation research in Estonia.
03.28.08: Received an honorable mention in the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.
01.13.08: Selected to be a composition fellow at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East at Bennington College, VT during the summer of 2008.
01.11.08: Uneasy Tides was chosen as a winner of the Quintet Attacca call for scores.
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