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{{Short description|American classical music composer}}
'''Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman''' (October 5, 1914 – October 28, 1965) was an American composer, born in [[Burns, Wyoming]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hixon, Donald L.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28889156|title=Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow Press|others=Hennessee, Don A.|isbn=0-8108-2769-7|edition=2nd|location=Metuchen, N.J.|oclc=28889156}}</ref> She married [[Allan Arthur Willman]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pool, Jeannie G.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/239233280|title=American composer Zenobia Powell Perry : race and gender in the 20th century|others=Perry, Zenobia Powell|year=2009|isbn=978-0-8108-6376-7|location=Lanham, Md|oclc=239233280}}</ref> in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained close throughout her life. Willman received a B.M. from the [[University of Wyoming]] in 1945, and a M.M. from the [[University of New Mexico]] in 1961. She studied with [[Darius Milhaud]] at [[Mills College]], [[Roy Harris]] at [[Colorado College]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pfitzinger, Scott|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/961457738|title=Composer genealogies : a compendium of composers, their teachers, and their students|date=March 2017|isbn=978-1-4422-7225-5|location=Lanham, Maryland|oclc=961457738}}</ref> and pursued further studies at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], the [[Juilliard School]], the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]], and the [[Lausanne Conservatory]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cohen, Aaron I.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16714846|title=International encyclopedia of women composers|year=1987|isbn=0-9617485-2-4|edition=Second edition, revised and enlarged|location=New York|oclc=16714846}}</ref> Willman was the resident composer of the [[Helene Wurlitzer Foundation]] in [[Taos, New Mexico]], from 1956–57 and 1960-61. Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Results for 'au:Willman, Regina,' [WorldCat.org]|url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Willman,+Regina,&qt=hot_author|access-date=2020-08-05|website=www.worldcat.org|language=en}}</ref>
==Works==
Regina Willman's compositions include:
===Ballet===
*Doves (piano)
*Legend of the Willow Plate (1949; chamber orchestra)
=== Orchestra ===
*Anchorage Symphony
*Design for Orchestra 1 (1948)
*Design for Orchestra 2 (1953)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Division|first=New York Public Library Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mg5YAAAAMAAJ&q=regina+willman+composer|title=Bibliographic Guide to Music|date=1981|publisher=G. K. Hall.|isbn=978-0-8161-6961-0|language=en}}</ref>
=== Piano ===
*Little Tailor Suite
*Steel Mill (1941; two pianos)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Phi|first=Phi Kappa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hw3PAAAAMAAJ&q=regina+hansen+composer|title=Phi Kappa Phi Journal|date=1941|publisher=Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi|language=en}}</ref>
*Three Compositions for Piano
=== Theatre ===
*Music for Medea (text by [[Euripides]])
=== Vocal ===
*Ante Vero Longam (1961; tenor solo, men's chorus, oboe, and piano; text by Lambertus)
*Apres le Deluge (1961; high voice and piano; text by [[Arthur Rimbaud]])
*First Holy Sonnet (voice and string trio; text by [[John Donne]])<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stewart-Green, Miriam.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6815939|title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8498-4|location=Boston, Mass.|oclc=6815939}}</ref>
*O Sleep Now (1956; medium voice and piano)
*Vocalise (voices and low strings)
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[[Category:American women composers]]
[[Category:1914 births]]
[[Category:1965 deaths]]
[[Category:University of Wyoming alumni]]
[[Category:University of New Mexico alumni]]
[[Category:Lausanne Conservatory alumni]]
[[Category:People from Wyoming]]