Michael Djupstrom was an American composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. He grew up in White Bear Lake

White Bear Lake

White Bear Lake is the name of a city and two townships in Minnesota* White Bear Lake, Minnesota is located in Ramsey County, Minnesota;* White Bear Township, Minnesota is located in Ramsey County, Minnesota....

, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. After completing undergraduate and graduate studies in composition at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

, Djupstrom moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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. His music has garnered many awards, and is published by Bright Press and Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world. Until 2003, it was also a major manufacturer of brass, string and wind musical instruments....

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An accomplished pianist, Djupstrom performs with the Phoenix Trio. His composition teachers include Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...

, Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng

Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by...

 and Betsy Jolas

Betsy Jolas

Betsy Jolas is a French composer.Betsy Jolas was born in Paris. Resident in the United States from 1940 until 1946, she studied composition with Paul Boepple and piano with Helen Schnabel. On her return to France she continued her studies with Simone Plé-Caussade, Darius Milhaud and Olivier...

, among others.

Awards

• 2010 Charles Ives Fellowship
  Charles Ives Prize
  The Charles Ives Prize is a scholarship for young composers, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters: scholarships of $7500, and fellowships of $15,000....
  
  , The American Academy of Arts and Letters
  The American Academy of Arts and Letters
  The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. Located in Washington Heights, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York, it shares Audubon Terrace, its Beaux Arts campus on...
  
  
• 2006 Great Wall International Composition Competition, 1st Prize & Audience Prize, Chinese Fine Arts Society
• 2005 Music Teachers National Association - Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year
• 2005 ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation
  Lotte Lehmann Foundation
  The Lotte Lehmann Foundation, named for the great German soprano active in the first half of the 20th century, serves to preserve and perpetuate her legacy, and to honor her dream of bringing art song into the lives of as many people as possible....
  
  Song Cycle Competition, 3rd Prize
• 2004 William Schuman Prize, BMI Foundation
• 2004, 2003 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award
• 2002 Walter Beeler Memorial Composition Prize, Ithaca College
• 2002 ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize

External links

• Official website