BORWICK, Susan

Susan Borwick, composer, musicologist, music theorist, teacher, and ordained minister, was born in Dallas, TX in 1946. She began composing as a child, and published her first composition at the age of fourteen. In her initial faculty appointment at the Baylor University School of Music (1972-1977), Dr. Borwick continued to compose and arrange for choir and solo piano, idioms she continues to prefer. Divorce and a bout with cancer prompted Dr. Borwick to reinvigorate her call to composition. During the past dozen years, she has composed prolifically as she has sought to reinterpret past sacred traditions in spiritually vital and inclusive ways. She finds inspiration in her faith community, Knollwood Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC, where she is Composer-in-Residence, and in her son John Borwick and daughter-in-law Lauren Pressley.