Marilyn Bliss wrote “It Was the Wind” a setting of an evocative Navajo text originally for voice and Native American flute. Arranged specifically for the duo 2Flutes, and scored for Alto flute & Native American flute, this new version receives it’s World premiere by 2Flutes during a concert at Columbia University’s Music at St. Paul’s concert series on March 10th 2015.

Marilyn Bliss has written many widely performed orchestral, chamber, and solo works. Educated at Coe College and the University of Pennsylvania, her teachers include such distinguished composers as George Crumb, George Rochberg, Jacob Druckman, Jerry Owen, and Harvey Sollberger. Awards received include a Charles Ives Prize from the American Academy/Institute of Arts and Letters, ASCAP Young Composers Award, Newly Published Flute Music awards from the National Flute Association and fellowships from Tanglewood. The Boston globe wrote that her piece Huatzu Hill is “…a series of rich landscapes – the colors sharp, the feelings powerfully concentrated, the language eloquent, the expression precise.”