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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Joan Tower
Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
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John Harbison
John Harbison
American composer
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
English composer
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Tristan Keuris
Tristan Keuris
Dutch composer
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Paavo Heininen
Paavo Heininen
Finnish composer and pianist
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Wayne Peterson
Wayne Peterson
American composer
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Bernard Rands
Bernard Rands
British composer
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Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz
Polish composer, violinist
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David Diamond
David Diamond
American classical composer (1915-2005)
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Toshi Ichiyanagi
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Japanese composer
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen
Finnish composer
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Isang Yun
Isang Yun
Korean composer
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Ernst Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
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Alan Shulman
Alan Shulman
American composer and cellist
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Sean Hickey
Sean Hickey
American composer
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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American composer
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rome Prize
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Florida Artists Hall of Fame
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

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (/teɪf ˈzwɪlɪk/ tayf ZWIL-ik; born April 30, 1939) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.