Joseph Schwantner
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Joseph C. Schwantner is a Pulitzer Prize winning
American
composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize
.
Schwantner is prolific, with many works to his credit. His style is accessible, coloristic and eclectic, drawing on such diverse elements as French impressionism, African drumming, and minimalism
. His orchestral work Aftertones of Infinity received the 1979 Pulitzer Prize
for Music. He also wrote violinist, Anne Akiko Meyers
, 'Angelfire', a fantasy for amplified violin and orchestra.
Pulitzer Prize for Music
The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year...
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composer and educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize
Charles Ives Prize
The Charles Ives Prize is a scholarship for young composers, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters: scholarships of $7500, and fellowships of $15,000....
.
Schwantner is prolific, with many works to his credit. His style is accessible, coloristic and eclectic, drawing on such diverse elements as French impressionism, African drumming, and minimalism
Minimalist music
Minimal music is a style of music associated with the work of American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School....
. His orchestral work Aftertones of Infinity received the 1979 Pulitzer Prize
1979 Pulitzer Prize
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for Music. He also wrote violinist, Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers
Anne Akiko Meyers is an American concert violinist. Meyers has toured and collaborated with a number of symphony orchestras and Il Divo, Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. Meyers tours with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the 'Royal Spanish'...
, 'Angelfire', a fantasy for amplified violin and orchestra.
Orchestra
- A Play of Shadows for Flute and Chamber Orchestra
- A Sudden Rainbow
- Aftertones of Infinity
- Angelfire "Fantasy" for Amplified Violin and Orchestra, written for Anne Akiko MeyersAnne Akiko MeyersAnne Akiko Meyers is an American concert violinist. Meyers has toured and collaborated with a number of symphony orchestras and Il Divo, Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis. Meyers tours with a 1730 Stradivarius violin called the 'Royal Spanish'...
- Beyond Autumn "Poem" for Horn and Orchestra
- Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
- Distant Runes and Incantations for Piano solo (amplified) and Orchestra
- Dreamcaller: Three Songs for Soprano, Violin solo, and Orchestra
- "Evening Land" Symphony
- Freeflight "Fanfares" & "Fantasy"
- From Afar..."A Fantasy for Guitar and Orchestra"
- Magabunda (Witchnomad) "four Poems of Agueda Pizarro" for Soprano and Orchestra
- Modus Caelestis
- Morning's Embrace
- New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom" for Narrator and Orchestra
- September Canticle "Fantasy" (In Memoriam)
- Toward Light
Wind Ensemble
- ...and the mountains rising nowhere (1977)
- From a Dark Millennium (1980)
- In evening's stillness... (1996)
- Recoil (2004)
- Percussion Concerto (transcribed by Andrew Boysen) (1997)
- Beyond Autumn (transcribed by Timothy Miles) (2006)
- New Morning for the World "Daybreak of Freedom" (transcribed by Nikk Pilato) (2007)
Chamber ensemble
- Rhiannon's Blackbirds
- Soaring, for flute and piano
- Black Anemones, for flute and piano
- Consortium II, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
- Distant Runes and Incantations
- In Aeternum (Consortium IV)
- Music of Amber
- Canticle of the Evening Bells
- Chronicon, for bassoon and piano
- Consortium (I)
- Diaphonia Intervallum
- Elixir
Notable students
- Kamran InceKamran InceKamran N. İnce is a Turkish-American composer.- Life :Ince was born in Glendive, Montana, and at the age of six moved with his family to Turkey. He entered the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of ten, in 1971, where he began studying cello and piano, and took composition lessons with İlhan Baran...
- Eric EwazenEric EwazenEric Ewazen is an American composer and teacher. Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School...
- Roger BriggsRoger BriggsRoger Briggs is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator.- Biography :Roger Briggs, born and raised in Florence, Alabama, began playing the piano at age 8 and composing by age 11. His earliest teachers were Norman Hill and Walter Urben who taught at the University of North Alabama...
- Daron HagenDaron HagenDaron Aric Hagen , is an American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.- Early life and education :...
- Daniel KelloggDaniel KelloggDaniel Kellogg is an American composer.Kellogg is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music composition, counterpoint and orchestration.-Life:...
- Marc MellitsMarc MellitsMarc Mellits is an American composer and musician.Mellits was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1984 to 1988, the Yale School of Music from 1989 to 1991, Cornell University from 1991 to 1996, and at Tanglewood in the summer of 1997...
- Carter PannCarter PannCarter Pann is an American composer. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree...
- Robert PatersonRobert PatersonRobert Paterson may refer to:* Robert Paterson , Scottish stonemason* Robert Paterson , Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man, Isle of Man* Robert Paterson , American composer*Robert Paterson...
- Kevin PutsKevin PutsKevin Matthew Puts is an American composer.-Life:Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner,...
- D. J. SparrD. J. SparrD. J. Sparr is an American composer and guitarist fluent in both classical and vernacular musical styles. He has performed with the Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Eastman's "Musica Nova" Contemporary Music Ensemble, pop bands, and as a studio musician. D. J. premiered Michael Daugherty's electric...
- Gordon StoutGordon StoutGordon Stout is an American percussionist, composer, and educator specializing in the marimba.He studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck...
- Michael Sidney TimpsonMichael Sidney TimpsonMichael Sidney Timpson is an American composer of contemporary classical music.Although clearly a composer of the concert art-music genre, his definitive style combines elements of European, American, and Asian musical sources...
- Christopher Theofanidis
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- Ye XiaogangYe XiaogangYe Xiaogang is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. He is originally Cantonese but spent his early years in Shanghai. He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing from 1978 to 1983 and at the Eastman School of Music beginning in 1987...
- Yoshihisa HiranoYoshihisa Hiranois a Japanese composer.- Biography :Yoshihisa Hirano studied composing at Juilliard School in 1992, and later at Eastman School of Music. Some of the awards he has received include first prize in the Axia Tape Competition in Japan during his high school years and New York's New Music for Young...