Category: Music Event

2024 Grawemeyer Award Winners Announced

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 […]

2024 Music Composition Recipient – Aleksandra Vrebalov

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 ā€œMissa Supratext,ā€ a nontraditional choral work for string quartet and girlsā€™ chorus. Kronos Quartet, a group long known for nurturing musical innovation, and San Francisco Girlsā€™ Chorus, […]

2018 winner presentations will be in April

The 2018 winners of the Grawemeyer Award will be in Louisville in April to give free, public presentations about their award-winning ideas. Here’s the schedule: April 10 – Scott Straus, Ideas Improving World Order, Chao Auditorium in Ekstrom Library, 1 p.m. April 10 – Sara Goldrick-Rab, Education, Chao Auditorium in Ekstrom Library, 5 p.m. April […]

Play

The 2017 Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series presents Play Andrew Norman Winner of the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition April 6, 2017, 3 p.m. School of Music, Bird Recital Hall American composer Andrew Norman will discuss his award-winning orchestral work, Play, which explores the relationship of choice and chance, free will and control. It investigates […]

2017 Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series

  The Grawemeyer Awards program pays tribute to the power of creative ideas, emphasizing the impact a single idea can have on the world. The 2017 recipients will visit Louisville in April to discuss their award-winning ideas.   The schedule for the 2017 Grawemeyer Awards Lecture Series (view flyer), which is free and open to […]

Grawemeyer Award winners to give public talks

Recipients of the 2016 Grawemeyer Award will discuss their winning works at the University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in April. UofL presents the annual prizes for outstanding works in music composition, ideas improving world order, psychology and education and gives a religion prize jointly with Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. This yearā€™s awards […]

New Music Festival celebrates Grawemeyer Award 30th anniversary

The University of Louisville School of Music presents the 2015 New Music Festival celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Grawemeyer Award Nov. 10-15 with guest composer and Grawemeyer Award winner Kaija Saariaho. Saariaho is a Finnish composer internationally known and recognized for her work involving electronics. Featured guests also include renowned French composer and visual […]

Grawemeyer celebration tackles weighty topics, invites public to join discussion

Race, corruption, peace, human intelligenceā€”discussion topics planned for the University of Louisvilleā€™s 30th anniversary celebration of the Grawemeyer Awards read like themes from an epic movie or novel.   ā€œThose topics are very intentional,ā€ said Charles Leonard, the award programā€™s executive director. ā€œThe Grawemeyer Awards were created to celebrate ideas, and great ideas usually begin […]