Composer Tina Davidson's Blue Dawn unfurls slowly. It reveals a musical landscape of space and sky; a strangely transposed world where the visual and kinesthetic phenomena of color and space are rewritten as music. Such acts of translation occur throughout Ms. Davidson's work as ordinary sounds, stories, and other forms of perceptions are filtered, examined and rephrased in the musical grammar of melody, rhythm, and arrangement. Consider Ms. Davidson's orchestral composition, In the Darkness I Saw a Face (It is Mine), which was inspired by a recording of the sounds of traffic crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. It is richly textured, urgent and insistent, yet strangely lush given its everyday, urban origin. Her 1987 string quartet (commissioned by Kronos Quartet) Cassandra Sings is a luxuriant and eventually chaotic musical meditation on the prophetic figure from Greek tragedy. By incorporating and emphasizing such range of sources in her music, Ms. Davidson invites the listener to experience her compositions in bigger ways. We hear them, see them, and even feel them as music spaces that are shaped by the circumstances of sight and sound. Tina Davidson received her B.A. in piano and composition from Bennington College in 1976. Her awards include three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Artists Fellowships, an American Music Center CAP Grant, and first prize at The Mid-Atlantic Orchestral Consortium for New Music.