Warshauer, Meira
Class of 1966Born January 8, 1948 graduated New Hanover High School 1966.
Meira graduated from Harvard University (magna cum laude), New England Conservatory of Music (with honors) and the University of South Carolina. Her works have been performed and recorded critical acclaim throughout the Unites States and in Israel, Europe, South America, and Asia. She has received numerous awards from ASCAP as well as the American Music Center, Meet the Composer, and the South Carolina Arts Commission. Meira was twice awarded the Artist Fellowship in Music by the South Carolina Arts Commission. She received the first Art and Cultural Achievement Award from the Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina.
She has received commissions from the Dayton, OH Philharmonic, the South Carolina Philharmonic, the Zamir Chorale of Boston with the Rottenberg Choral (New York City), Zemer Chai (Washington, DC), Graatz College (Philadelphia), Kol Dodi (New Jersey); and the Cantors Assembly. Her CDs include the soundtrack to the documentary Land of Promise; The Jews ofSouth Carlina and Spirals of Light.
Meira is on the faculty of Columbia College, Columbia, South Carolina, where she teaches an innovative cross-cultural, multidisciplinary course on the experience of music as a source of healing.