Former Composition Faculty

Ludmila Ulehla has been honored for her valuable half-century devotion and contribution to Manhattan School of Music as a member of the composition faculty since 1947. She has a master of music degree from Manhattan School of Music and was composition department chair from 1972 to 1989. Her commissions include a work for the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players that was premiered in 1998, as well as such past works as Gargoyles for Hindell; Michelangelo for Orchestral Society of Westchester; Remembrances for Heifetz; and Unrolling a Chinese Scroll for Schefflien. Ms. Ulehla has been named Outstanding Educator in Who’s Who of American Women, named in the New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, and has received ASCAP awards. Her chamber opera, Sybil of the American Revolution, was premiered in 1993; and in 1999, Undersea Fantasy for Orchestra was premiered by the Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia under the direction of David Gilbert. Her publications, printed by Advance Music, include the books Contemporary Harmony and Sonata for Improvisation for clarinet, soprano saxophone, and piano. Author: Contemporary Harmony pub. Advance Music. Manhattan School of Music faculty 1947 thru 2007.

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