Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Composer

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was born in Miami, Florida, United States on April 30th, 1939 and is the Composer. At the age of 85, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
April 30, 1939
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Miami, Florida, United States
Age
85 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Profession
Composer, Musicologist, Violinist
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Florida State University
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Life

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939, in Miami, Florida) is the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Atonal discovery informed her early works, but by the 1980s, she had shifted to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style.

"One of America's most frequently performed and genuinely popular living composers," she has been described as "one of America's most frequently performed and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

Zwilich is currently an Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Career

Musical career

Taaffe Zwilich's compositional style is characterized by his obsession with "the possibility of producing an entire work – large-scale structure, melodic and harmonic language, and developmental processes – starting from its beginnings." In comparison to large orchestral works such as Symbolon (1988), Symphony No. 146. 2 (Cello Symphony) (1985), and Symphony No. No. She has written a number of important, smaller-scale concertos, beginning in 1992. These include trombone (1988), bass trombone (1989), flute (1989), oboe (1990), trumpet (1993), and clarinet (2002). In addition, she has written a few choral works and song cycles. Pierre Boulez, a Juilliard student, conducted her performance in 1975. After winning the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for her Symphony No. 5, she had a major breakthrough. 1. Following this, she was selected to work on two more symphonies, for the San Francisco Symphony and the New York Philharmonic's 150th anniversary. Symbolon has been performed in Europe, Asia, and America.

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