Named 2007 "Composer of the Year" by Musical America and honored with multiple Grammy Awards for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, he is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas, symphonies, and much more.
John Corigliano
Among his many honors, one will find included all of the most important music awards: several Grammy’s, a Pulitzer Prize, a Grawemeyer, and an Academy Award. His work has been performed by some of the most visible orchestras, soloists and chamber musicians in the world.
John Harbison
Among his principal work are four string quartets, five symphonies, the cantata The Flight Into Egypt , which earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1987, and three operas, including The Great Gatsby , commissioned by The Metropolitan Opera and premiered to great acclaim in December 1999. .
Joan Tower
Hailed as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time" in The New Yorker, she was the first woman to receive the Grawemeyer Award in Composition in 1990. She was inducted in 1998 into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and into the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University in the fall of 2004.
