Michelle Green
Willner
Composer, Conductor, Educator
(ASCAP)
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
NOV.
3rd
2024
NACUSA-LA
Piano + 1 CONCERT
Reflections:
A Fallen Soldier
Kim'At Shakulah
featuring
Anna Davidson, soprano
Gaby Sipen, piano
AUG.
4th
2024
KOCHAVIM/STARS
New!
Commission for Community!
Composers Conference
Conference @80
featuring violinist, Matthew Hakkarainen
NOV.
2023
AWARDED!
Shirley Holden Helberg Grant for Mature Women in Music
by
National League of American PEN Women
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
JULY
31st
2023
POETRY and CHORAL COMMENTARY
NACUSA-LA
ZOOM SEMINAR
7:00-8:00pm PST
https://chapman.zoom.us/j/2398410279
MAY
21st
2023
COME TOGETHER
LA Jewish Community Children's Choir and
The Michelle Green Willner Singers
Westside Jewish Community Center, 7:00pm
DEC
11th
2022
Helfman Composers
presents
AMAZED
featuring
WALKING WITH INTIMACY
for chorus and string quartet
Valley Beth Shalom, 7:30pm
DEC
4th
2022
NACUSA
presents
PIANO + 1
featuring
Beauty and the Dance of Wonder,
Chanukah Dreams & Maoz Tsur
NOV
14th
2022
Panel Discussion
AMAZED
with
Cantors Assembly and Helfman Composers
SEPT
18th
2022
NACUSA
presents
CALIFORNIA QUINTETS
featuring
THE STRANGER
University of Redlands
JUNE
26
2022
NACUSA
presents
CALIFORNIA QUARTETS READINGS
featuring
CORONA SKETCHES
Burbank Music Academy
APRIL
27th
2022
A Musical Journey from East to West
Invited Talk
Long Beach City College
JAN
30th
2022
Pacific Southwest Region of Women's League for Conservative Judaism
Invited Talk
2:30-3:30pm PST
DEC
12
2021
A Musical Holiday
presents
Maoz Tsur
for chorus and orchestra
Skye Angulo & Roger Przytulski, Directors
Long Beach City College
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/
JULY
25
2021
JULY
11
2021
"Creating Holiday Music!"
Watch the Chat Here--Thank you unSUNG!
MAY
16
2021
ICP Sunday Virtual Concerts
Invited Talk and Presentation of My Music!
4pm PST
APRIL
7
2021
MAR
7
2021
HOT AIR MUSIC FESTIVAL
San Francisco Conservatory
Featuring AT ENDS!
JAN
28
2021
The Making of Reverberations
LA MADE Festival
4pm
DEC
11-18
2020
Eight Days of Online Hanukkah Reveals!
Please see videos under music menu!
DEC
6
2020
SHARING LIGHT
unSUNG Concert
Featuring MAOZ TSUR
4pm
YouTube Live
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
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
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
REVERBERATIONS: A COLLABORATION
MICHELLE GREEN WILLNER AND DONI SILVER SIMONS
PRESENTATION AT THE 2019 CONNEY CONFERENCE
9:00 am
92nd ST. Y, NYC