The Pulitzer Prize in Music is given for distinguished musical composition by an American in any of the larger forms including chamber, orchestral, choral, opera, song, dance, or other forms of musical theater, which has had its first performance in the United States during the year. As of 2014, 31 BMI composers have won the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
2014
John Luther Adams: Become Ocean
2012
Kevin Puts: Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts
2009
Steve Reich: Double Sextet
2006
Yehudi Wyner: Piano Concerto: ‘Chiavi in Mano’
2005
Steven Stucky: Second Concerto for Orchestra
2003
John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls
2000
Lewis Spratlan: Life is a Dream. Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version
1998
Aaron Jay Kernis: String Quartet #2 (musica instrumentalis)
1994
Gunther Schuller: Of Reminiscences and Reflections
1993
Christopher Rouse: Trombone Concerto
1989
Roger Reynolds: Whispers Out Of Time
1988
William Bolcom: Twelve Etudes for Piano
1987
John Harbison: Flight Into Egypt
1984
Bernard Rands: Canti Del Sole
1983
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 1
1982
Roger Sessions: Concerto for Orchestra
1979
Joseph Schwantner: Aftertones of Infinity
1974
Donald Martino: Notturno
1973
Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 3
1971
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 6
1970
Charles Wuorinen: Times Encomium
1969
Karel Husa: String Quartet No. 3
1968
George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River
1967
Leon Kirchner: String Quartet No. 3
1966
Leslie Bassett: Variations for Orchestra
1962
Robert Ward: The Crucible
1961
Walter Piston: Symphony No. 7
1960
Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 2
1957
Norman Dello Joio: Meditations on Ecclesiastes
1954
Quincy Porter: Concerto Concertante for Two Pianos and Orchestra
1948
Walter Piston: Symphony No. 3
1947
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 3
1943
William Schuman: Secular Contata No. 2: A Free Song