May 11 Blog Meet Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass received its world premiere Nov. 21, 2021 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wis. Far from any kind of traditional Catholic mass, the piece was written by Chacon, a Diné composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, for chamber orchestra and pipe organ — specifically […] By Tom Huizenga May 11 Blog Meet Raven Chacon, the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music By Tom Huizenga
Apr 16 Blog Readjusting Your Reality: Ellen Reid Wins Music Pulitzer For ‘P r i s m’ The young composer's opera, which debuted at the Los Angeles Opera, was inspired by her own experience as a survivor of sexual assault. By Tom Huizenga Apr 16 Blog Readjusting Your Reality: Ellen Reid Wins Music Pulitzer For ‘P r i s m’ By Tom Huizenga
Apr 14 Blog 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music Winners Congratulations to the 2014 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, John Luther Adams, for his orchestral work Become Ocean, premiered by the Seattle Symphony last June. The finalists this year, two operas, are John Adams’ (not related) The Gospel According to the Other Mary and Christopher Cerrone’s Invisible Cities. By Daniel Gilliam Apr 14 Blog 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music Winners By Daniel Gilliam
Sep 20 Blog Higdon’s Violin Concerto Most composers are self-starters. It’s almost a genetic requirement to be entrepreneurial, if you want to be a composer. And if there were a patron saint for “indie” composers, Jennifer Higdon would be the one. It was no surprise, then, when I received a package from Lawdon Press (Higdon’s publishing shop) containing two items: a […] By Daniel Gilliam Sep 20 Blog Higdon’s Violin Concerto By Daniel Gilliam
Apr 12 Blog 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music Jennifer Higdon is the 2010 winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music for her Violin Concerto composed for Hilary Hahn. It was commissioned by The Indianapolis Symphony, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and The Curtis Institute of Music. Ms. Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers and won the […] By Daniel Gilliam Apr 12 Blog 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music By Daniel Gilliam