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Julie Mandel, composer of both musical theater and classical music, and current Treasurer of the Long Island Composers’ Alliance. She was a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, and has been providing scores (music and lyrics) for such musical theatre works as A GLORIOUS DAY, based on G.B. Shaw's play, GETTING MARRIED produced first at the Westside Dance Project and recently at the York Theatre. Other theatre works have been produced by such prestigious organizations as the National Theater for the Performing Arts, Theatreworks, and the National Music Theater Network. Her musical theater work, SUBWAY SUITE, for string quartet and voices, was premiered in the Goldstein Theater at Queens College in December 1999 featuring the Meridian String Quartet. Theodore Presser publishes both her Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp, and her String Quartet #3. She has received the Burton Award for Contemporary Music (2002) for her String Quartet #3 recorded by the Meridian String Quartet on their CD, "DIVERSE LIGHT'. She has received many ASCAP Awards and several awards from Meet The Composer. She studied 12-tone composition with Ernst Krenek, and composition with Erik Zeisl.