Congratulations to the five (5) 2025 Grawemeyer Award winners. The Grawemeyer Awards recognize highly constructive ideas with world changing potential and that’s certainly true of the ideas that will be honored on Thursday, April 10. During the week of April 7, the award recipients will give a public presentation. The University of Louisville and Louisville […]
London composer’s installation piece hailed for balancing space and sonic geographyGrawemeyer Award, University of Louisville For creating Invisible Threads, a work that changes how music is usually experienced by employing a spatially shifting ensemble of 12 musicians and encouraging its audience to roam the performance space throughout its 70 minutes, London-based composer Christian Mason will […]
UofL, seminary name 2024 Grawemeyer Award winners By Denise Fitzpatrick The University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary announced 2024 recipients of five, $100,000 Grawemeyer Awards Dec. 4-8, 2023. UofL presents the annual prizes in music, world order, psychology, education and religion and gives the religion prize jointly with the seminary. All of the […]
Nontraditional choral work wins 2024 music composition prize By Denise Fitzpatrick Serbian-American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for “Missa Supratext,” a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girls’ chorus. Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francisco Girls’ Chorus, […]
Adams is known for works including the opera “Nixon in China” and concert pieces such as “Shaker Loops,” “Harmonielehre,” “Road Movies,” and more. By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jun. 14, 2023 The Library of Congress has acquired the music manuscripts and papers of contemporary American composer, conductor and writer John Adams. Adams is known for works including the opera […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition notes with sadness the death of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, 70. She won the Award in 2003 for her opera, “L`amour de loin,” (Love From Afar). (http://grawemeyer.org/2003-kaija-saariaho/). The opera continues to be performed all over the world and was featured in the Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcast series in […]
Julian Anderson’s ‘Litanies’ wins 2023 music prize By Denise Fitzpatrick The Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the death of an esteemed colleague influenced the creation of “Litanies,” said Julian Anderson, a British composer named today as winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for the work. “Notre Dame burned while I was writing […]
The Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition announces with sorrow the passing of Louis Andriessen, winner of the 2011 Award for his large scale opera, La Commedia, based on texts by Dante, in 2011. Maestro Andriessen spent about a week on campus where, among other activities, he gave lessons to University of Louisville composition students, as […]
It is with great sorrow that the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition announces the death of British composer Simon Bainbridge. He won the Award in 1997 for his work Ad Ora Incerta (At the Uncertain Hour), a four-movement song cycle for mezzo soprano, bassoon solo, and orchestra, based on Holocaust-themed poems by Primo Levi. Bainbridge […]