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Michelle Green

Willner

Composer, Conductor, Educator

 

(ASCAP)

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F E A T U R E D   R E V I E W S

"It was a pleasure to meet you last night.  Your musical compositions are filled with story, emotion and humanity.   Your sensibility is so compelling.  You have inspired me." 

-Randi Matushevitz, artist

"Michelle Green Willner’s stormy and dissonant waltz, 'Garden of Love,' bellowed forth with great fury..."

- Jesse David Corti, Los Angeles Music Review: VOICES OF LOS ANGELES: SONGS OF EXPERIENCE (Hollywood Master Chorale)

“...It sparkles with chromaticism. It sparkles with syncopated rhythm...I am very thrilled to be presenting it.”  

-Dr. Stephen Pu, Artistic Director,

Hollywood Master Chorale

"Another plus is a setting of Sim Shalom, composed by Michelle Green Willner. This setting is one that I found had artistic merit as well as commercial possibility."

-Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County

"Thoughtful, well crafted...her compositions always inspire both performer and audience. She is truly an amazing and versatile talent!"

-Dr. Noreen Green, Conductor,

LA Jewish Symphony

“The piece is magnificent!  It's a movie! It evoked so many images in my mind, like an 1940s Cecil B. deMille biblical extravaganza.

I loved it. I hope it has a rich future and will be performed again in many places!”

-Corinne Joy Brown, Author

"A pleasure to listen to your music.  Your work has a natural quality, beautifully shaping phrases with an organic structure.  Your Holocaust themed works are powerful and moving."

-Mark Kligman, Professor

Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music, UCLA

"What an amazing day!! Thank you SO much for putting in so much time to give us a fantastic presentation today. We had such a wonderful time learning from you and hearing your music. You have given us a great memory that we will cherish through our lives. I am thankful for our new friendship."

-Skye Angulo, Professor

Long Beach City College on Invited Lecture

"I have to say right off the bat that I thoroughly enjoyed this piece of music. It is challenging, engaging, thought-provoking and full of emotion. Also, the performance and recording is superb!... I am honored to award Reverberations (In Memoriam: Ellie Wiesel) 1st place."

-Judges' comments (excerpt), 2024 Biennial Music Competition, Nat'l League American Pen Women

Enjoy our LA MADE presentation here!

Enjoy Presentation 
Exa(u)ltation and Despair here!

Listen to my Hanukkah Candle Blessings Arrangement presented by Joy Katzen-Guthrie!

E V E N T S​

DEC.
19th
2024

2024 HANUKKAH SONGFEST!

Sinai Temple, LA

7pm

 

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NOV.
3rd
2024

NACUSA-LA

Piano + 1 CONCERT

Reflections:

A Fallen Soldier

Kim'At Shakulah

featuring

Anna Davidson, soprano 

Gaby Sipen, piano

 

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AUG.
4th
2024

KOCHAVIM/STARS

New!

Commission for Community! 

Composers Conference

Conference @80

featuring violinist, Matthew Hakkarainen

 

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NOV.
2023

AWARDED!

Shirley Holden Helberg Grant for Mature Women in Music

by

National League of American PEN Women

 

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FEB.
2024

AWARDED!

 REVERBERATIONS

1st Place for the Biennial Music Competition 

National League of American Pen Women

LISTEN HERE!

https://soundcloud.com/user-533091080/reverberations-with-coda-amplified-violin-and-viola

 

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MAR.
8th
2024

SIM SHALOM

SELECTED

for

WACDA COMPOSERS
READING
ACDA Western Conference

Many Voices One Song

PASADENA, CA

 

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JULY
31st
2023

POETRY and CHORAL COMMENTARY

NACUSA-LA

ZOOM SEMINAR

7:00-8:00pm PST

https://chapman.zoom.us/j/2398410279

 

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MAY
21st
2023

COME TOGETHER

LA Jewish Community Children's Choir and

The Michelle Green Willner Singers

Westside Jewish Community Center, 7:00pm

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DEC
11th
2022

Helfman Composers

presents

AMAZED

featuring

WALKING WITH INTIMACY

for chorus and string quartet

Valley Beth Shalom, 7:30pm

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DEC
4th
2022

NACUSA

presents 

PIANO + 1

featuring

Beauty and the Dance of Wonder,

Chanukah Dreams & Maoz Tsur

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NOV
14th
2022

Panel Discussion

AMAZED

with

Cantors Assembly and Helfman Composers

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SEPT
18th
2022

NACUSA

presents

CALIFORNIA QUINTETS

featuring

THE STRANGER

University of Redlands

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JUNE
26
2022

NACUSA

presents

CALIFORNIA QUARTETS READINGS

featuring

CORONA SKETCHES

Burbank Music Academy

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APRIL
27th
2022

A Musical Journey from East to West

Invited Talk

Long Beach City College

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JAN
30th
2022

Pacific Southwest Region of Women's League for Conservative Judaism

Invited Talk

2:30-3:30pm PST

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DEC
12
2021

A Musical Holiday

presents

Maoz Tsur

for chorus and orchestra 

Skye Angulo & Roger Przytulski, Directors

Long Beach City College

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AUG
1st
2021

Sepharad:

The Untold Story that Changed the World

Featuring:

A Letter Fell Out of the Sky

Watch Here:

https://jewishheritagealliance.com/exploring-history-memory-and-legacy-part-i/

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JULY
25
2021

Holidays in July!

Online unSUNG Concert!

Watch Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rax03KiJzYM

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JULY
11
2021

"Creating Holiday Music!"

Watch the Chat Here--Thank you unSUNG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lPyygv65Uw&t=737s

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MAY

16

2021

ICP Sunday Virtual Concerts   

Invited Talk and Presentation of My Music!

4pm PST

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APRIL
7
2021

The Jerusalem Biennale

Art and Memory

Invited Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyAgOQffcMo 

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MAR

7

2021

HOT AIR MUSIC FESTIVAL

San Francisco Conservatory

Featuring AT ENDS!

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JAN

28

2021

The Making of Reverberations

LA MADE Festival

4pm

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DEC

11-18

2020

Eight Days of Online Hanukkah Reveals!

Please see videos under music menu!

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DEC

6

2020

SHARING LIGHT

unSUNG Concert

 Featuring MAOZ TSUR

4pm

YouTube Live

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SEPT

22

2019

Homelessness in LA:

Art, Poetry and Music

4:00-6:30pm

New Center for Psychoanalysis, LA

2014 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025

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OCT 10
TO
NOV
28
2019

MAR

26

2019

MAR

31

2019

APR

3

2019

JERUSALEM BIENNALE 2019

RELIQUARY: AN ASCENT

A COLLABORATION WITH DONI SILVER SIMONS

Hechal Shlomo, Jerusalem

LA JEWISH COMMUNITY SING!

Come and SIng and Shmooze!

8pm, SINAI TEMPLE

Register:

member.sinaitemple.org/events

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A LETTER FELL FROM THE SKY

4pm, AJU, GINDI AUDITORIUM

$25

FEATURING WONDERFUL MUSICIANS, FULL CHOIR, AND DIANA TASH AS SOLOIST!

Dr. NOREEN GREEN, Conductor

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REVERBERATIONS: A COLLABORATION

MICHELLE GREEN WILLNER AND DONI SILVER SIMONS

PRESENTATION AT THE 2019 CONNEY CONFERENCE

9:00 am

92nd ST. Y, NYC

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