As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1926–27: Stearns, Theodore: Appointed for creative work in musical composition, in Germany, principally for the completion and orchestration of his opera “Atlantis”; tenure, twelve months for June 1, 1927. Born June 10, 1881, at Berea, Ohio. Education: In Cleveland, Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Wuerzberg, Bavaria, M.A., 1898.
Kurt Stallmann devotes his energy towards synthesizing many of the mediums available to composers today. His works include pieces for acoustic ensembles, acoustic/electronic groupings, environmental sounds, purely synthetic sounds, and multidisciplinary collaborations. Recognition of his work includes, in addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2009 Goddard Lieberson Award from The American Academy of Arts and
Bright Sheng was born on December 6, 1955, in Shanghai, China, and moved to New York in 1982. He is currently the Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. Among other honors, he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Mr. Sheng has collaborated with distinguished musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur,
Born in 1920, Harold Shapero has lived most of his life in the Boston area, graduating from Harvard University in 1941. Mr. Shapero has studied composition with Nicholas Slonimsky (1936), Ernst Krenek (1937), Walter Piston (1938), Paul Hindemith (1940), and Nadia Boulanger (1942). He was composer in residence at the American Academy in Rome in
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1926–27: Sessions, Roger Huntington: Appointed for creative work in musical composition; the plans for work including an opera, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and a symphony—both in process of composition; tenure, twelve months from September 1, 1926. Born December 28, 1896, at Brooklyn, New York. Education:
José Serebrier, now a world-renowned conductor and composer, first came to prominence in 1953 when he won the Uruguayan National Orchestra’s annual music composition contest (SODRE) with his Legend of Faust overture, which the then fifteen year old composed in only four days. Within five years he had been honored with many of music’s most sought-after
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