Robert Beaser
Composition
Born in Boston, MA
Artistic director, American Composers Orchestra. Music director/conductor, Musical Elements, 1978-89. Awards: Grammy nomination; Prix de Rome; Guggenheim, Fulbright fellowships; N.E.A., ASCAP, Barlow, Nonesuch commissions; Academy Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters in Music. Commissions: Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis Symphonies; New York Philharmonic; American Composers, St. Paul Chamber Orchestras; American Brass Quintet. Opera commission, Central Park: Food of Love from New York City Opera/Glimmerglass/WNET Great Performances, libretto by Terrence McNally, published by European American Music. Recordings: Choral Variations; The Seven Deadly Sins; Piano Concerto, on London/Argo; Notes on a Southern Sky, EMI;Song of the Bells and Psalms 119, 150, New World; Mountain Songs, Variations for Flute and Piano, Musicmasters.
Degrees and Studies
B.A., Yale College, summa cum laude; M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale School of Music. Composition, Jacob Druckman, Toru Takemistu, Goffredo Petrassi.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 1993; chair, composition department since 1994.
John Corigliano
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Composition
Born in Brooklyn, NY
Composer-in-residence, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1987-90. Commissions: The Ghosts of Versailles, Metropolitan Opera, 1991; Symphony No. 1, Chicago Symphony, 1990; Troubadours, for Sharon Isbin, commissioned by consortium, premiered by St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, 1993. Works for N.Y. and L.A. Philharmonics; Boston, St. Louis, and San Antonio Symphonies; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; James Galway; Van Cliburn Foundation. Films: Ken Russell's Altered States (Academy Award nomination) and Hugh Hudson's Revolution (British Film Institute's Anthony Asquith Award). Awards: The Ghosts of Versailles, Composition of the Year at the first International Classical Music Awards (1993); Symphony No. 1, Grawemeyer Award (1991) and Grammy Award (1992); The Red Violin, Academy Award (2000); Symphony No. 2, Pulitzer Prize (2001). Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Former faculty, Manhattan School of Music. Current faculty, Lehman College.
Degrees and Studies
Graduate, Columbia U.; studies with Otto Luening and Vittorio Giannini.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 1991.
Matthias Pintscher
Composition
In the 2013-14 season, Matthias Pintscher became the music director of Ensemble Intercomporain and continues his partnership with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as its artist-in-association. As composer and conductor, he has created significant works for some of the world's leading orchestras, and regularly conducts throughout Europe and the U.S.
Recent and upcoming conducting debuts include the Atlanta, Colorado, and New World Symphony orchestras, Quebec Symphony, and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Other highlights include tours to Geneva, Cologne, and Holland with the Ensemble; performances with the New York, Naples, and Slovenian Philharmonic orchestras, Utah Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Paris Opera Orchestra, Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, NDR Sinfonieorchester, and concerts in Chicago and Tel Aviv. He has appeared in many festivals such as Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Ljubljana and Lucerne.
As composer, Pintscher found success at an early age and is the recipient of numerous prizes, including the 2012 Roche Commission. He works regularly with leading contemporary music ensembles and since 2011 has directed the music segment of Impuls Romantik Festival in Frankfurt. He also served as artistic director of the Heidelberg Atelier of the Heidelberg Spring Festival since 2007, now known as the Heidelberg Young Composers' Academy.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 2014
Christopher Rouse
Born in Baltimore, MD
Composer-in-residence, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1986-89. Director, Aspen Composition Master Class, since 2000. Awards/Prizes: Musical America Composer of the Year, 2009; Grammy Award, 2002; Pulitzer Prize in music, 1993; American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in music, 1993; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990; Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, 1988. Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, since 2002. Works performed by all major orchestras in the U.S. and overseas. Recent commissions: London, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, Atlanta Symphonies; Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minnesota Orchestras; New York, Los Angeles Philharmonics; Boston Pops; New York City Ballet. Composed works for Dawn Upshaw, Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Cho-Liang Lin, Sharon Isbin, Carol Wincenc, among others. Published by Boosey & Hawkes, Helicon Music Corp. Recordings: Argo, Albany, BIS, First Edition, Koch, Naxos, New World, Nonesuch, Ondine, RCA, Sony, Telarc, and Teldec. Asst. professor, U. of Michigan, 1978-81; professor, Eastman School of Music, 1981-2002.
B.M., Oberlin College Conservatory, 1971; M.F.A., D.M.A., Cornell U., 1977.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 1997.
Steven Stucky
Composition
Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for his Second Concerto for Orchestra, Stucky's notable recent premieres include Symphony(2012) by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Stars and the Roses (2012) by the Berkeley Symphony, Say Thou Dost Love Me (2012) by the New York Virtuoso Singers, Take Him, Earth (2012) at the American Choral Directors Association conference, Silent Spring(2011) by the Pittsburgh Symphony, Chamber Concerto (2010) by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Rhapsodies (2008) by the New York Philharmonic at London's BBC Proms. Stucky's August 4, 1964 (2007-08), a Dallas Symphony commission, was nominated for the 2013 Grammy Award for best contemporary classical composition. In the 2013-14 season, the Washington Choral Society presented the East Coast premiere of Take Him, Earth; Bernard Haitink and the Boston Symphony played Stucky's take on Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary (1992) in Boston and at Carnegie Hall; and the Ojai Music Festival will premiere his first opera, The Classical Style. For more than 20 years, Stucky served as resident composer and new music advisor at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and from 2005 to 2009 he was host of the New York Philharmonic's Hear and Now series. His Cradle Songsand Whispers were commissioned and recorded by Chanticleer. The two discs were Billboard-charting bestsellers, and both won Grammy Awards. Stucky has taught at the Eastman School of Music, U.C. Berkeley, Temple, and, since 1980, Cornell University, where he has served as the Given Foundation Professor of Music.
Stucky will join the composition faculty in the 2014-15 school year.
The Juilliard School
Faculty since 2014.
