Beglarian, Eve

Beglarian, Eve, American composer, performer, and audio producer, daughter of Grant Beglarian; b. Ann Arbor, July 22, 1958. She studied music at Princeton Univ. (B.A., 1980) and composition at Columbia Univ. (M.A., 1983), and also had private training in conducting with Jacques Louis Monod in N.Y. (1981–84). She began her career as an “uptown” N.Y. composer, but her shift in the mid-1980s to postminimalist practices and the use of vernacular sources moved her more comfortably “downtown” by the early 1990s. With keyboard player Kathleen Supové she performs in the duo twisted tutu, which blends theater with technology. Among her awards are a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency (1995), the Ford Foundation’s Asian-Pacific Performance Exchange APPEX Fellowship (1996–97), and a Rockefeller MAP Grant (1998); from 1985 she has also received annual ASCAP Special Awards. Beglarian currently directs and produces audio books of such authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice for Random House and Simon & Schuster. In 2000 she commenced work on her first opera, The Man in the Black Suit , to a libretto by the composer and Grethe Barrett Holby after Stephen King.