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- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Marie Krafft Distinguished Professor, is widely considered to be one of America’s leading composers. She studied at the Florida State University and the Juilliard School, where her major teachers were Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter. She also studied violin with Richard Burgin and Ivan Galamian and was a member of the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.
Zwilich is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award). She was elected to the Florida Artists Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 1995, was named to the first Composer’s Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall. Musical America designated her the 1999 Composer of the Year. A prolific composer in all media except opera, Zwilich has produced four symphonies and other orchestral essays, numerous concertos for a wide variety of solo instruments, and a sizable canon of chamber and recital pieces. Her works are commissioned and played regularly by
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer (born 1939)
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (tayf ZWIL-ik;[1] born April 30, 1939)[2] is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style.[3] She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers."[4] She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.[3] Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.[5]
Biography
Ellen Taaffe was born in Miami, Florida.[3] She began her music studies as a violinist, earning a bachelor of music degree from Florida State University in 1960. She moved to New York City to play with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. She later enrolled at Juilliard School, in 1975 becoming the first woman at Juilliard to earn the degree of doctor of musical arts in compos
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