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John Corigliano
Born:
1938
Nationality
: American
Publisher:
G. Schirmer
Photo © J. Henry Fair
John Corigliano continues to add to one of the richest, most unusual, and most widely celebrated bodies of work any composer has created over the last forty years. Corigliano's scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and have been performed and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world.
Recent scores include
One Sweet Morning
(2011) a four-movement song cycle premiered by the New York Philharmonic and Stephanie Blythe,
Conjurer
(2008), for percussion and string orchestra, commissioned for and introduced by Dame Evelyn Glennie;
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: The Red Violin
(2005), developed from the themes of the score to the film of the same name, which won Corigliano an Oscar in 1999;
Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
(2000) for orchestra and amplified soprano, the recording of which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition in 2008;
Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus
(2004), scored simultaneously for wind orchestra and a multitude of wind ensembles; and
Symphony No. 2
(2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music.) Other important scores include
String Quartet
(1995: Grammy Award, Best Contemporary Composition);
Symphony No. 1
(1991: Grawemeyer Award); the opera
The Ghosts of Versailles
(Metropolitan Opera commission, 1991); and the
Clarinet Concerto
(1977). The Houston Symphony Orchestra commissioned Corigliano to create a new orchestral version of
Stomp
which premieres in fall 2015.
Overtones: John Corigliano (1988)
In 2015 Los Angeles Opera received wide acclaim for their stunning new production of
The Ghosts of Versailles
, conducted by James Conlon, staged by Tony Award-winning director Darko Tresnjac and starring Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman and Patti LuPone.
Corigliano’s music is performed widely on North American and international stages. In recent years his music has been featured in performances throughout the US and Europe, Caracas, Melbourne, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Krakow, Toronto, Bosnia, and beyond.
Corigliano serves on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York, which has established a scholarship in his name. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.
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