Sebastian Currier wins 2007 Grawemeyer Award.Sebastian Currier Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He is also an associate professor of music at Columbia University. , an exclusive Carl Fischer composer, has been named the 2007 winner of the Grawemeyer Award The Grawemeyer Award is a prestigious and lucrative award presented each year by the University of Louisville in the state of Kentucky, United States. Initiated in 1985, the award is presented to individuals in the fields of education, improving world order, music composition, for Music Composition for his 2005 composition Static, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano. The award, which includes a $200,000 cash grant, was announced and presented on March 8, 2007, at a special concert at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Concert hall in New York, N.Y., U.S. It was endowed by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). celebrating the Grawemeyer Awards and the 75th Anniversary of the School of Music at the University of Louisville See also
1. ^ [1] 2. ^ [2] URL accessed on June 8 2006 3. , which administers the award. Static is the first piece of chamber music to be given the Grawemeyer Award. Static, which was commissioned by Copland House and first performed by the resident ensemble, Music from Copland House at Miller Theater of Columbia University in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in February of 2005, has just been published by Carl Fischer. The movements of the six-movement work reflect and embody the different meanings of the word static. For more information, visit www.carlfischer.com. |
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