WENDY DURRWACHTER

is a composer residing along the North Shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota. Following early piano studies with Bishop Michael Bent in Green Bay, Wisconsin, she attended summer piano academies at University of Wisconsin Whitewater and Indiana University. In 2000, Durrwachter received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Minnesota with concentrations in piano performance and composition. While attending, she studied with composer Judith Lang Zaimont and pianist Duncan McNab. In 2021, she received a Master of Music in Film Composition from the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program of the Seattle Film Institute, conducting the Northwest Sinfonia several times in recordings of her works... In January 2018, a Career Development Grant by the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council supported a concert and recording at Duluth's Sacred Heart Music Center. The concert included the premiere of her violin concerto ULTRA VIRES with soloist Erin Aldridge, concertmaster of the Duluth Superior..