Grawemeyer Award winners to give public talks
Recipients of the 2010 Grawemeyer Awards will discuss their winning works in free, public talks at the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary April 12-15.
Category: Music Composition
Nature, love inspires Grawemeyer Award-winning piece
“Spheres,” a six-movement work for orchestra by German composer York Hoeller, has earned the 2010 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Video interview with Brett Dean, winner of the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Interview with Brett Dean, winner of the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
Homage to letter-writing earns Grawemeyer music prize
“The Lost Art of Letter Writing,” a four-movement concerto for violin and orchestra by Australian composer Brett Dean, has earned the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
2008 – Peter Lieberson
âNeruda Songs,â a song cycle written by composer Peter Lieberson that became a parting gift to his dying wife, has earned the 2008 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The work, a group of songs based on five love poems by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, was chosen for the prize among 140 entries […]
2007 – Sebastian Currier
âStatic,â a chamber music work by American composer Sebastian Currier, has earned the 2007 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The name of the six-movement piece for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano reflects âdifferent meanings of the word âstatic,â which can be a state of quiet balance or the erratic noise between […]
2006 – György KurtĂĄg
A concerto by Hungarian composer György KurtĂĄg described as ranging through âmany changes of mood, tempo and textureâ has earned the 2006 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The work, âConcertante Op. 42â for violin, viola and orchestra, was commissioned by the Leonie Sonning Foundation of Copenhagen. Since its premiere in September 2003 […]
2005 – George Tsontakis
American composer George Tsontakis has been selected to receive the prestigious 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his Violin Concerto No. 2. Described by one music critic as âa work of gentle beauty and intriguing orchestral sounds,â Tsontakis’s 20-minute concerto received its world premiere April 19, 2003, by Steven Copes, violin, […]
2004 – Unsuk Chin
Composer Unsuk Chin’s âConcerto for Violin and Orchestraâ has won the 2004 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. Premiered in Berlin in January 2002 by violinist Viviane Hagner and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester conducted by Kent Nagano, the 25-minute concerto has been described as âa synthesis of glittering orchestration, rarefied sonorities, volatility of […]
2003 – Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Saariaho of Finland won the $200,000 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for 2003 for her first opera, âL`amour de loin,” (love from afar). It premiered in August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Kent Nagano. âL`amour de loinâ is based on the story of the […]