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John Luther Adams To Receive Heinz Award
BMI composer John Luther Adams, from Fairbanks, Alaska, has been named the recipient of a $100,000 Heinz Award. A groundbreaking "environmental composer," Adams was recognized for his ability to connect people to nature through music. Now in its 17th year, the Heinz Awards honors visionaries who have made extraordinary contributions to the environment, a life-long area of commitment for the late U.S. Senator John Heinz. "John Luther…
From News, posted 9.19.11
John Luther Adams, Finding a Way to Get Lost
Throughout his distinguished career as a composer, John Luther Adams has been considered an “outsider,” the moniker frequently bestowed on independently-minded artists (think John Cage and Morton Feldman) whose work places them outside the musical establishment. In many ways, this label fits. The New Yorker goes as far as to appoint Adams “the chief standard bearer of American experimental music.” To many, “outsider” is even doubly suitable,…
From MusicWorld, posted 9.01.10
58th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced
Eleven young classical composers, ages 13 to 26, have been named winners in the 58th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Awards Chair Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, BMI President and CEO Del Bryant and BMI Foundation President Ralph N. Jackson announced the decisions of the jury and presented the awards at a reception held May 14 at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in New York City. The award-winners for…
From News, posted 5.17.10
John Luther Adams Receives Nemmers Prize in Composition
BMI composer John Luther Adams was named 2010 recipient of the $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. The announcement was made recently by the Northwestern University Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, stewards of the honor made possible through a generous gift from the late Erwin E. Nemmers and Frederic E. Nemmers, who in 1994 enabled the creation of the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize…
From News, posted 5.07.10
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