Rome Prize
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The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome
American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists (working in architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, literature, musical composition, or visual arts) and to 15 scholars (working in ancient, medieval, Renaissance and early modern, or modern Italian studies). They are announced annually in New York City.

Rome Prize winners go to the American Academy in Rome
American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

, established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of the United States Congress
United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

 in 1905, on the Janiculum
Janiculum
The Janiculum is a hill in western Rome, Italy. Although the second-tallest hill in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.-Sights:The Janiculum is one of the...

, Rome's highest hill.

Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience, as well as on the resources of Rome, Europe and the Mediterranean.

The Academy offers the opportunity to examine at first hand the source of Western humanistic heritage, and to engage in a dialogue with Rome's culture. Time spent at the Academy—stimulated in part by varied walks, talks, tours and trips, a stream of international visitors and spontaneous table talk—allows residents to enter into informed discourse with this past and to draw upon it for their individual explorations.

The Academy's main building contains most of the studios, studies and residences of the Rome Prize winners, the library, dining facilities and administrative offices, as well as exhibition galleries, communal spaces, a dark room and archaeology facilities. The Academy has extensive gardens and additional buildings.

Winners of the Rome Prize

List of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
1896 - 1970 1971 - 1990 1991 - 2010

Musical composition

  • 2011 - Sean Friar, Lei Liang
  • 2010 - Huck Hodge
    Huck Hodge
    Huck Hodge is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Hodge's music "is influenced by the fields of Psychoacoustics and Cognition, eastern and western philosophical inquiry and music of the early Renaissance"...

    , Paul Rudy
  • 2009 - Lisa Bielawa
    Lisa Bielawa
    Lisa Bielawa is a composer and vocalist based in New York City. She is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition and spent a year composing as a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.-Biography:...

    , Don Byron
    Don Byron
    Don Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....

  • 2008 - Erin Gee
    Erin Gee
    Erin Gee is an American composer.She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA and MA in piano and composition, and from University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, with a PhD in music theory in 2007....

    , Yotam Haber
  • 2007 - Andrew Norman (composer), Ken Ueno
    Ken Ueno
    Ken Ueno is an American composer.He studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M...

  • 2006 - Susan Botti, Charles Norman Mason,
  • 2005 - Steven M. Burke, Harold Meltzer
    Harold Meltzer
    -Life:He grew up in Long Island.After graduating from Amherst College, summa cum laude, he studied law at Columbia University and worked for the firm of Patterson Belknap in New York City. He later earned degrees in music at King's College, Cambridge and the Yale School of Music.In 2009 his...

  • 2004 - Mason Bates
    Mason Bates
    Mason Bates is an American composer of symphonic music. Distinguished by his innovations in orchestration and large-scale form, Bates is best known for his expansion of the orchestra to include electronics...

    , Jefferson Friedman
    Jefferson Friedman
    Jefferson Friedman is an American composer.-Life:He received his M.M. degree in music composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano, and his B.A. from Columbia University, where his teachers included David Rakowski and Jonathan Kramer...

  • 2003 - Mark Kilstofte
    Mark Kilstofte
    Mark Kilstofte is an American composer, and professor at Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, reared in Pueblo, Colorado.-Life:...

    , David Sanford (composer)
    David Sanford (composer)
    David William Sanford is an American composer, and jazz bandleader.-Biography:Sanford was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1963, into a musical family...

  • 2002 - Derek Bermel
    Derek Bermel
    Derek Bermel is an American composer, clarinetist and conductor whose music blends various facets of world music, funk and jazz with largely classical performing forces and musical vocabulary...

    , Kevin Puts
    Kevin Puts
    Kevin Matthew Puts is an American composer.-Life:Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner,...

  • 2001 - Michael Hersch
    Michael Hersch
    Michael Nathaniel Hersch is an American composer and pianist.-Biography:Initial inspiration and musical educationBorn in Washington, D.C., and raised in Reston, Virginia, Hersch was introduced to classical music at the age of 18 by his younger brother Jamie, who showed him a videotape of Georg...

    , Pierre David Jalbert
  • 2000 - Shih-Hui Chen, Carolyn Yarnell
    Carolyn Yarnell
    Carolyn Yarnell is an American composer and visual artist. A recipient of the Rome Prize, Charles Ives Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, she is particularly noted for works which combine visual and musical depictions of landscape and light, many of which were inspired by the landscapes of her...

  • 1999 - Christopher Theofanidis, Mark Wingate
  • 1998 - P. Q. Phan
    P. Q. Phan
    P. Q. Phan , is a Vietnamese composer of contemporary classical music living in the United States. He became interested in music while studying architecture in 1978 and taught himself to play the piano, compose, and orchestrate. In 1982, he immigrated to the United States and began his formal...

    , Andrew Rindfleisch
  • 1997 - Arthur Levering
    Arthur Levering
    Arthur Levering  is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Rome, Italy....

  • 1996 - Nathan Currier
    Nathan Currier
    - Biography :Coming from a musical family, composer Nathan Kind Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier and brother of composer Sebastian Currier ....

    , David Rakowski
  • 1995 - Edmund Campion, Francis Thorne
    Francis Thorne
    Francis Thorne is an American composer of contemporary classical music and grandson of the writer Gustav Kobbé.-Life:...

  • 1994 - Sebastian Currier
    Sebastian Currier
    Sebastian Currier is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He was also a professor of music at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007.-Life:...

  • 1992 - Donald Erb
    Donald Erb
    Donald Erb was an American composer best known for large orchestral works such as Concerto for Brass and Orchestra and Ritual Observances.-Early years:...

    , Stephen Hartke
    Stephen Hartke
    Stephen Paul Hartke is an American composer. He grew up in Manhattan, where his first piano teacher was Mary Miley, and has lived in California since the 1980s...

    , Bun-Ching Lam
    Bun-Ching Lam
    Lam Bun-Ching is a composer, pianist, and conductor.She holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong . She obtained a scholarship from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds,...

  • 1991 - Lee Hyla
    Lee Hyla
    Lee Hyla is an American classical music composer.Lee Hyla was born in Niagara Falls, New York, and grew up in Greencastle, Indiana...

    , David Lang
    David Lang (composer)
    David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...

  • 1990 - James C. Mobberley, Walter K. Winslow
  • 1989 - Kathryn Alexander, Michelle Ekizian
    Michelle Ekizian
    Michelle Ekizian is an American composer of Armenian heritage.-Life:Michelle Ekizian was born in Bronxville, New York. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a master's degree from Columbia University, having studied with Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky,...

    , Harvey Sollberger
    Harvey Sollberger
    Harvey Sollberger is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music.-Life:...

  • 1988 - Kamran Ince
    Kamran Ince
    Kamran N. İnce is a Turkish-American composer.- Life :Ince was born in Glendive, Montana, and at the age of six moved with his family to Turkey. He entered the Ankara State Conservatory at the age of ten, in 1971, where he began studying cello and piano, and took composition lessons with İlhan Baran...

    , Fred Lerdahl
    Fred Lerdahl
    Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar[s]." He has written many orchestral and chamber...

    , Steve Rouse
  • 1987 - Thomas Oboe Lee
    Thomas Oboe Lee
    Thomas Oboe Lee is a Chinese American composer.- Life :He and his family left Communist China in 1949, and lived in Hong Kong for ten years until 1959, when he moved to São Paulo, Brazil. He emigrated to the USA in the summer of 1966.His musical education began in Brazil during the Bossa Nova craze...

    , Earle Brown
    Earle Brown
    Earle Brown was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems...

  • 1986 - Scott Lindroth
    Scott Lindroth
    Scott Lindroth is an American composer and teacher currently based near Durham, North Carolina.Lindroth joined the faculty of Duke University in 1990, where he is currently the Vice-Provost for the Arts and the Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Music; his colleagues at Duke include composers...

    , Rand Steiger
    Rand Steiger
    Rand Steiger is an American composer, conductor, and pedagogue.Steiger became a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, remaining there until 1987...

  • 1985 - David Del Tredici
    David Del Tredici
    David Del Tredici, born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California, is an American composer. According to Del Tredici's website, Aaron Copland said David Del Tredici "is that rare find among composers — a creator with a truly original gift...

    , Aaron Jay Kernis
    Aaron Jay Kernis
    Aaron Jay Kernis is an American composer and professor at the Yale School of Music.-Biography:Aaron Jay Kernis is Jewish, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and Yale University .,Notable works include the...

    , Paul Moravec
    Paul Moravec
    Paul Moravec is an American composer and a University Professor at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York...

  • 1984 - Tamar Diesendruck, Jay Anthony Gach
  • 1983 - Larry Thomas Bell, Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...

    , William Neil
  • 1982 - Todd Brief, Jacob Druckman
    Jacob Druckman
    Jacob Druckman was an American composer born in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Druckman studied with Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin, and Bernard Wagenaar. In 1949 and 1950 he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood and later continued his studies at the École Normale de...

    , Nicholas Thorne
  • 1981 - Stephen Jaffe
    Stephen Jaffe
    Stephen Jaffe is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, USA, and serves on the music faculty of Duke University, where he holds the post of Mary and James H. Semans Professor of Music Composition; his colleagues there include composers Scott...

    , John Anthony Lennon
    John Anthony Lennon
    John Anthony Lennon is an American composer of contemporary classical music based in Georgia. He was raised in Mill Valley, California, and is a professor of composition at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia...

    , Robert Hall Lewis
  • 1980 - Morley Baer
    Morley Baer
    Morley Baer , an American photographer and teacher, was born in Toledo, Ohio. His parents, Clarence Theodore Baer and Blanche Evelyn Schwetzer Baer brought up Morley with a tradition of old world customs and mid-West values. Baer learned basic commercial photography in Chicago but subsequently...

    , Arthur V. Kreiger, Allen R. Shearer, William O. Smith
  • 1979 - William Albright
    William Albright (musician)
    William Albright was an American composer, pianist and organist.Albright was born in Gary, Indiana, and began learning the piano at the age of five, and attended the Juilliard Preparatory Department , the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan , where he studied composition with...

    , Dennis Eberhard
    Dennis Eberhard
    Dennis Eberhard was an American composer. In his youth he was crippled by polio, which contributed to respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2005...

    , Sheila Silver
    Sheila Silver
    Sheila Silver is an American composer.She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946,she started her piano studies at the age of five. In 1968 she received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at Berkeley, and had her Ph.D from Brandeis University, Mass. in 1976. She is an important...

  • 1978 - Robert Beaser
    Robert Beaser
    Robert Beaser is an American composer.-Biography:Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew up in Newton, Massachusetts where he distinguished himself at a young age as a percussionist, composer and conductor...

    , Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

    , John Thow
    John Thow
    John Holland Thow was an American music composer. Thow produced an extensive and diverse body of work comprising solo, chamber, vocal, choral, operatic and orchestral repertoire....

  • 1977 - Chester Biscardi
    Chester Biscardi
    Chester Biscardi is an Italian American composer and educator.He received a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison ; he studied during 1969-1970 at the University of Bologna and the Conservatorio di Musica "G. B. Martini"; he received an M.A...

  • 1976 - Claus Adam
    Claus Adam
    Claus Adam was an influential American cellist and cello teacher as well as a composer. He served as the second cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet, replacing Arthur Winograd in 1955. Joel Krosnick, a former student of his, replaced him as cellist of the quartet in 1974...

    , Martin Bresnick
    Martin Bresnick
    Martin Bresnick is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music.-Education and early career:Bresnick was born and raised in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and Art. He was educated at the University of Hartford ,...

    , Barbara Kolb
    Barbara Kolb
    Barbara Kolb is an American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units . She was the first American woman composer to win the Prix de Rome. She received her B.M. and M.M...

    , Gerald H. Plain
  • 1975 - David Bates, John Eaton (composer)
    John Eaton (composer)
    John Charles Eaton is an American composer , MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of composition at the University of Chicago John Charles Eaton (born 30 March 1935 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American composer (Anon. [n.d.]; Morgan 2001), MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of...

    , George Edwards (composer)
  • 1974 - William Hellermann, Jeffrey Jones (composer), Leon Kirchner
    Leon Kirchner
    Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York...

    , Tison Street
    Tison Street
    Tison C. Street is an American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist.He studied violin with Einar Hansen from 1951 to 1959. He later studied composition at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and David Del Tredici, receiving B.A. and M.A...

  • 1973 - Eugene O'Brien, Leo Smit
    Leo Smit (American composer)
    -Life:Leo Smit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child his mother took him to Russia where he studied with the composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He later studied piano in New York with Isabella Vengerova and José Iturbi and composition with Nicolas Nabokov...

  • 1972 - David Diamond
    David Diamond (composer)
    David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...

    , James Heinke, Daniel Perlongo
  • 1971 - Barbara Kolb
    Barbara Kolb
    Barbara Kolb is an American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units . She was the first American woman composer to win the Prix de Rome. She received her B.M. and M.M...

    , Loren Rush
    Loren Rush
    Loren Rush is a U.S. composer. His works include the drone piece Hard Music for three amplified pianos. The piece features no melodic figuration but rather clouds created by only one note, the low D above cello C, repeated quickly enough by each player to be heard as nearly continuous...

    , Harold S. Shapero, Richard Trythall
  • 1970 - Henry Weinberg, Louis Weingarden, Frank Wigglesworth
  • 1969 - John Heineman
  • 1968 - Morris Cotel, Jack Fortner, Andrew Imbrie
    Andrew Imbrie
    Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...

  • 1967 - Stephen Albert
    Stephen Albert
    Stephen Albert was an American composer.-Biography:Born in New York City, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music, where...

    , Richard Trythall, Hugo Weisgall
    Hugo Weisgall
    Hugo David Weisgall was an American composer and conductor, known chiefly for his opera and vocal music compositions...

    , Philip Winsor
  • 1966 - Jack Beeson
    Jack Beeson
    Jack Beeson was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye.-Biography:...

    , Vincent S. Frohne, Charles Whittenberg
    Charles Whittenberg
    Charles Whittenberg was an American composer and holder of two Guggenheim Fellowships....

  • 1965 - Otto Luening
    Otto Luening
    Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....

  • 1964 - Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...

    , Marvin D. Levy
  • 1963 - Leslie Bassett
    Leslie Bassett
    Leslie Bassett is an American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan’s Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition...

    , Elliott Carter
    Elliott Carter
    Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...

    , Paul Nelson
    Paul Nelson (composer)
    Paul Nelson was an American musician and composer. His compositions—in all genres except opera—have been performed on four continents.-Life:...

  • 1962 - John Eaton (composer)
    John Eaton (composer)
    John Charles Eaton is an American composer , MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of composition at the University of Chicago John Charles Eaton (born 30 March 1935 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American composer (Anon. [n.d.]; Morgan 2001), MacArthur Fellow, is professor emeritus of...

    , John La Montaine
    John La Montaine
    John La Montaine is an American composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto no. 1, Op. 9, "In Time of War" , which was premiered by Jorge Bolet....

  • 1961 - Robert Moevs
    Robert Moevs
    Robert Walter Moevs was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music....

    , G. B. Wilson
  • 1960 - Ross Lee Finney
    Ross Lee Finney
    Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...

    , Higo H. Harada
  • 1959 - Salvatore Martirano
    Salvatore Martirano
    Salvatore Giovanni Martirano was an American composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Yonkers, New York, he taught for many years at the University of Illinois...

  • 1958 - Stanley Hollingsworth
    Stanley Hollingsworth
    Stanley Walker Hollingsworth was an American composer and teacher. He was a student of composer Darius Milhaud from 1944–46, and of Gian Carlo Menotti from 1948–50...

    , Otto Luening
    Otto Luening
    Otto Clarence Luening was a German-American composer and conductor, and an early pioneer of tape music and electronic music....

    , William O. Smith
    Bill Smith (jazz musician)
    William Overton Smith , known as Bill Smith, is a U.S. jazz clarinetist, and composer. He has played with Dave Brubeck, among others.-Life:...

  • 1957 - Billy Jim Layton, Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...

    , Richard M. Willis
  • 1956 - Goffredo Petrassi
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...

    , Yehudi Wyner
    Yehudi Wyner
    Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator.Wyner, who grew up in New York City, was raised in a musical family. His father, Lazar Weiner, was an eminent composer of Yiddish art songs. Wyner attended Juilliard, Yale, and Harvard...

  • 1955 - Robert Moevs
    Robert Moevs
    Robert Walter Moevs was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music....

  • 1954 - Elliott Carter
    Elliott Carter
    Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...

    , Nikolai Nabokov, Frank Wigglesworth
  • 1953 - Alexei Haieff
  • 1952 - Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss
    Lukas Foss was a German-born American composer, conductor, and pianist.-Music career:He was born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922. His father was the philosopher and scholar Martin Fuchs...

    , Ulysses Kay
    Ulysses Kay
    Ulysses Simpson Kay was an African American composer. His music is mostly neoclassical in style....

    , Gail Kubik
    Gail Kubik
    Gail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with Leo Sowerby, and Harvard University with Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger...

    , Randall Thompson
    Randall Thompson
    Randall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.-Career:He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music...

  • 1951 - Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

    , George Rochberg
    George Rochberg
    George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...

    , Harold S. Shapero
  • 1950 - Jack Beeson
    Jack Beeson
    Jack Beeson was an American composer. He was known particularly for his operas, the best known of which are Lizzie Borden, Hello Out There! and The Sweet Bye and Bye.-Biography:...

  • 1949 - Alexei Haieff, Andrew Imbrie
    Andrew Imbrie
    Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...

  • 1947 - Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber
    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...

    , Douglas Stuart Moore
    Douglas Stuart Moore
    Douglas Stuart Moore was an American composer, educator, and author. He wrote music for the theater, film, ballet and orchestra, but his greatest fame was for his operas The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Ballad of Baby Doe .-Biography:Moore was born in Cutchogue, Long Island, New York, and his...

  • 1942 - Arthur Kreutz
    Arthur Kreutz
    Arthur Kreutz was an American composer. He was famous for the Paul Bunyan Suite and the Dixie Concerto. He also composed the score to Martha Graham's 1942 ballet Land Be Bright.-Notes:...

  • 1941 - William Douglas Denny
  • 1940 - Charles Naginski
    Charles Naginski
    Charles Naginski was an American composer of art songs and other musical works.-Biography:...

  • 1939 - Kent W. Kennan, Frederich Woltmann
  • 1937 - Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber
    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...

  • 1936 - Vittorio Giannini
    Vittorio Giannini
    Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...

  • 1935 - Hunter Johnson
  • 1934 - Herbert Inch
    Herbert Inch
    Herbert Reynolds Inch was an American composer. A native of Missoula, Montana, he studied music first at the University of Montana and later at the Eastman School of Music, where his teachers included Edward Royce and Howard Hanson. He taught theory at the school for a year before accepting a...

  • 1933 - Werner Janssen
    Werner Janssen
    Hans-Werner Janssen was an American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores.-Biography:...

  • 1932 - Normand Lockwood
    Normand Lockwood
    Normand Lockwood was an American composer born in New York, New York. He studied composition at the University of Michigan from 1921–1924, and then traveled to Rome and studied composition under Ottorino Respighi from 1925 to 1926, and during this time he also had composition lessons with Nadia...

  • 1931 - Roger Sessions
    Roger Sessions
    Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...

  • 1930 - Alexander Lang Steinert
  • 1929 - Robert Levine Sanders
  • 1928 - Walter Helfer
  • 1927 - George Herbert Elwell
  • 1925 - Randall Thompson
    Randall Thompson
    Randall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.-Career:He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music...

    , Wintter Watts
    Wintter Watts
    Wintter Watts was an American composer of art songs.-Life and musical career:...

  • 1921 - Howard Hanson
    Howard Hanson
    Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...

    , Leo Sowerby
    Leo Sowerby
    Leo Sowerby , American composer and church musician, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946, and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in the early to mid 20th century.-Biography:...


Visual arts

  • 2010 - Dike Blair
    Dike Blair
    Dike Blair is an American artist.He graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an M.F.A., in 1977.He lives in New York City.-Exhibitions:*2010 Gagosian Gallery, New York...

    , Felipe Dulzaides
    Felipe Dulzaides
    Felipe Dulzaides is a Cuban-American artist.Felipe Dulzaides’ is an artist whose work includes video, installations, photography, assemblages, neon, performance-actions, drawings, social sculptures and concept based public art projects...

    , Sarah Oppenheimer, Karen Yasinsky
  • 2009 - Terry Adkins
    Terry Adkins
    Terry Adkins is an American artist. He is Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania....

    , Abigail Child
    Abigail Child
    Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films.Originally, Child worked in San Francisco but moved to New York later in her career.-Academics:...

    , Nancy Davenport
    Nancy Davenport
    Nancy Davenport is a Canadian photographer. She is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania...

    , Stephen Westfall
    Stephen Westfall
    Stephen Westfall is an American painter, critic, and professor at Bard College.He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. and M.F.A...

  • 1985 - Frank Palaia, Brit Bunkley, Philip Sherrod, Elisabeth Merano
  • 1976 - William Bailey, Wulf Barsch
    Wulf Barsch
    Wulf Erich Barsch von Benedikt is a Latter-day Saint artist and professor at Brigham Young University .-Life:...

    , Robert G. Dodge, Bunny Harvey, Steven A. Linn, Conrad Marca-Relli
    Conrad Marca-Relli
    Conrad Marca-Relli was an American artist who belonged to the early generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists whose artistic innovation by the 1950s had been recognized across the Atlantic, including Paris...

  • 1975 - Maria Burgaleta, Aldo J. Casanova, Stephen Daly, Frank B. Holmes, György Kepes
    György Kepes
    György Kepes was a Hungarian-born painter, designer, educator and art theorist. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago...

    , Daniel Snyder
    Daniel Snyder
    Daniel M. Snyder is the current owner of the Washington Redskins American football team, owner of the Dick Clark Productions television production company, and primary investor in Red Zebra Broadcasting, which is home to the Redskins Radio Network. Snyder has a net worth of $1.05 billion...

  • 1974 - Dimitri Hadzi, Robert G. Hamilton, Michael Scott Hrabak, Thomas Walsh, Sharon D. Yates
  • 1973 - T. E. Breitenbach
    T. E. Breitenbach
    Thomas E. Breitenbach is a self-taught American artist best known for his painting Proverbidioms, a raucous and comical depiction of over 300 common proverbs and clichés. He also collaborated with Jim Morrison of The Doors, shortly before Morrison's death, on a painting intended for use on his An...

    , David S. Shapiro, Jack Tworkov
    Jack Tworkov
    Jack Tworkov was a Polish born American abstract expressionist painter.He was born in Biała Podlaska, Russian Empire and immigrated to the United States in 1913 with his mother and younger sister who would later become known as Janice Biala...

  • 1972 - Jack L. Bailey, Alan Feltus, Luise Kaish, John Matt, Constantino Nivola, Gregorio Prestopino
    Gregorio Prestopino
    Gregorio Prestopino, was an American artist, according to the art historian Irma B. Jaffe:one of the major American painters who refused to reject the image, has devoted his career to depicting the human condition with a warmth tempered only by honesty.-Biography:Prestopino was born in New York...

    , Jesse Reichek, Robert Strini, John Wenger
  • 1964 - Charles O. Perry
    Charles O. Perry
    Charles Owen Perry was an American sculptor particularly known for his large-scale public sculptures....



Classical studies and archaeology

  • 2011 Margaret Marshall Andrews, Albertus G. A. Horsting, Jackie Murray, Elizabeth C. Robinson, Heidi Wendt
  • 2010 Tyler T. Travillian, Seth Bernard, M. Shane Bjornlie, Andrew M. Riggsby, Elizabeth C. Robinson
  • 2009 Scott Craver, Jonathan P. Conant, Lauren M. Kinnee, Susanna McFadden, Darian Totten, Lela Urquhart
  • 1988 William Levitan
    William Levitan
    William Levitan is professor of Classics at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He was one of the founding members of the Classics department at Grand Valley and the first department chair...


See also

  • Académie de France Rome
    French Academy in Rome
    The French Academy in Rome is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio in Rome, Italy.-History:...

  • American Academy in Rome
    American Academy in Rome
    The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...

  • American School of Classical Studies at Athens
    American School of Classical Studies at Athens
    The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is one of 17 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, Greece.-General information:...

  • American Schools of Oriental Research
    American Schools of Oriental Research
    The American Schools of Oriental Research, founded in 1900, supports and encourages the study of the peoples and cultures of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present. It is apolitical and has no religious affiliation...

  • British School at Rome
    British School at Rome
    The British School at Rome was established in 1901 and granted a Royal Charter in 1912 as an educational institute in the fields of archaeology, literature, music, and history of Rome and Italy of every period, and for the study of the fine arts and architecture...

  • Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom
    German Archaeological Institute
    The German Archaeological Institute is an institution of research within the field of archaeology , and a "scientific corporation", with parentage of the federal Foreign Office of Germany-Origin:...

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