Melinda Wagner
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Melinda Wagner is a US composer, and winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize
in music
. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College.
She also served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Texas (Austin) and at the ‘Bravo!’ Vail Valley Music Festival.
In 1999, Wagner won the Pulitzer Prize for her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion. Other works have been performed by a number of orchestras, including the New York New Music Ensemble, the Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and many other leading organizations.
She has received many honourable mentions, including a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and three ASCAP Young Composer awards. Beforehand, she also received an honorary degree from Hamilton College.
Some of her famous pieces include the Trombone Concerto, Falling Angels (1992) and Extremity of Sky (2002).
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in music
Music
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. Her undergraduate degree is from Hamilton College.
She also served as Composer-in-Residence at the University of Texas (Austin) and at the ‘Bravo!’ Vail Valley Music Festival.
In 1999, Wagner won the Pulitzer Prize for her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion. Other works have been performed by a number of orchestras, including the New York New Music Ensemble, the Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and many other leading organizations.
She has received many honourable mentions, including a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and three ASCAP Young Composer awards. Beforehand, she also received an honorary degree from Hamilton College.
Some of her famous pieces include the Trombone Concerto, Falling Angels (1992) and Extremity of Sky (2002).
Works
- Concerto for FluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, StringsString instrumentA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
and Percussion (Pulitzer Prize winner-1999)