composer
Composer Fred Lerdahl studied at Lawrence University, Princeton, and Tanglewood. He has taught at Columbia University since 1991, where he is Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition. He has received numerous honors for his music, including the Koussevitzky Composition Prize, two composer awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Two of his pieces were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in music. Commissions have come from the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Library of Congress, and others. Among the organizations that have performed his works are the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Quartet, and the Venice Biennale. He has been in residence at the Marlboro Music Festival, IRCAM, the Wellesley Composers Conference, the American Academy in Rome, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
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To learn more about this artist, visit: www.fredlerdahl.com.
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