A full-time faculty member of the composition/theory department at the Boston Conservatory since September 2004, Ms. Warshaw obtained her doctorate in music composition from the Juilliard School in May 2003, where she taught courses in instrumentation and advanced orchestration in its Evening Division from 2000 to 2005. During the 2003-04 academic year, she served as Visiting Professor of Composition at Middlebury College, and as composer-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in July 2004. In 2005, she received the “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” award by the Boston Conservatory Music Division.

Recent awards and grants include two National Endowment for the Arts grants (2004 and 2006), Morton Gould Young Composers Award from the ASCAP Foundation (2003), the New Juilliard Ensemble Composers Competition (2003), a Fulbright Scholarship to Israel (2001-2002), a Whitaker Reading by the American Composers Orchestra, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Past composition teachers include Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, David Del Tredici, Tsvi Avni, Fred Lerdahl, Jonathan Kramer, Betsy Jolas, Victoria Bond, Donald Waxman and Edward Simons.

As a pianist, Ms. Warshaw has performed widely as both soloist and chamber player, in concert spaces such as Avery Fisher Hall, Miller Theater, the Juilliard Theater, Merkin Hall and Steinway Hall. Her teachers have included Martin Canin, Jonathan Feldman, Yocheved Kaplinsky and Ruti Hadass Warshaw.

Ms. Warshaw has appeared as thereminist with the New York Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Eos Ensemble and, most recently, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. Having studied with renowned thereminist Clara Rockmore from an early age, she has also performed in spaces such as Paul Hall, the Juilliard Theater, the Clark Studio Theater and Alice Tully Hall.

Other awards received include four ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Competition, the Juilliard Student Composers Competition and a Fromm Music Foundation Grant from Harvard University. In 1984, she became the youngest ever to win the BMI Award for Student Composers, with her orchestral pieceFun Suite, written at the age of eight.

Ms. Warshaw has held residencies at the Yaddo and MacDowell Artist Colonies, as well as at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A native of New York City, she is a graduate of Columbia University and the Juilliard School.