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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen
British composer and conductor
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Joan Tower
Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter
American composer
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Georg Friedrich Haas
Georg Friedrich Haas
Austrian composer
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Reinbert de Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw
Dutch conductor
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David Horne
David Horne
Scottish composer, pianist and teacher
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Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen
Finnish composer
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John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
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Lewis Spratlan
Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
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John Harbison
John Harbison
American composer
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Helen Grime
Helen Grime
Scottish composer
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Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison
American composer
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher
American composer
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
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Dmitri Smirnov
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov
Argentine composer of classical music
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Paavo Heininen
Paavo Heininen
Finnish composer and pianist
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Stephen Paulus
Stephen Paulus
American composer
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Tobias Picker
Tobias Picker
American composer
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John Adams
John Adams
American composer
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Erwin Schulhoff
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist
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Harold Farberman
Harold Farberman
American composer
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Turkish composer
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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David Diamond
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Peter Maxwell Davies
English composer and conductor
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Albert Roussel
Albert Roussel
French composer
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Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
MacArthur Fellows Program
Rome Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Music
AAAS Fellow
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Charles Peter Wuorinen ( /ˈwɔːrɪnən/; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor.

He composed more than 270 works, including orchestral music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal works, and operas such as Brokeback Mountain. Salman Rushdie and Annie Proulx have collaborated with him. Wuorinen's work has been called serialist, but he came to disparage that term as meaningless. His Time's Encomium, his only purely electronic piece, received the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Wuorinen also taught at several institutions, including Columbia University and Manhattan School of Music.