Composer // Performer
pianist Becky Billock’s CD Muses Nine (which includes Molly Joyce’s Medium Piano) was reviewed in the June 2012 Issue of Gramophone!
“Molly Joyce’s sustained mood-painting in Medium Piano, a work that might be described as Berg and Debussy’s love-child.” – Jed Distler, Gramophone
Contemporaneous was recently featured on Susan Scheid’s blog Prufock’s Dilemma, in a review of their concert, Just for Us. The concert consisted of six world premieres, including Molly Joyce’s Dollhouse.
“The strings lift the ensemble to harrowing heights…the music subtly changes as a long-lined lyricism threads its way through the tumult.” – Susan Scheid, Prufock’s Dilemma
pianist Becky Billock’s CD Muses Nine (which includes Molly Joyce’s Medium Piano) was reviewed in the November 2011 Issue of BBC Music Magazine!
“Molly Joyce’s dreaming 2010 Medium Piano…” – Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine
Molly Joyce was named the winner of the Bowdoin International Music Festival’s 2011 Student Composition Competition! She received a prize of $500 along with the premiere of Dear Elizabeth Hayes at the 2011 Charles Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music. The premiere was on Saturday, July 30, 2011 in Brunswick, Maine. Also, click HERE and HERE to see the press from the concert!
“muses nine: eight american composers plus one pianist”
features music by 20th and 21st century woman composers including Molly Joyce, Diane Thome, Emma Lou Diemer, Marion Bauer, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Amy Beach, Libby Larsen, and Margaret Bonds