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Stephen Paulus
Stephen Paulus
American composer
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Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen
American composer
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Christopher Rouse
Christopher Rouse
American composer
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Philip Glass
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
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Ruth Gipps
Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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Julian Anderson
Julian Anderson
British composer and teacher of composition
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Eugene Aynsley Goossens
Eugene Aynsley Goossens
English conductor and composer
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Daníel Bjarnason
Daníel Bjarnason
Icelandic composer
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James MacMillan
James MacMillan
Scottish composer and conductor
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John Veale
John Veale
English composer
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Frank Ticheli
Frank Ticheli
American composer
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John Corigliano
John Corigliano
American composer
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John Adams
John Adams
American composer
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Tan Dun
Tan Dun
Chinese composer
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
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Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon
American composer
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Sally Beamish
Sally Beamish
British composer and violist
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Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold
English composer, conductor
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Rumon Gamba
Rumon Gamba
conductor
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Malcolm Williamson
Malcolm Williamson
Australian composer
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Dan Welcher
Dan Welcher
American composer
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Joan Tower
Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
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William Alwyn
William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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Dorothy Howell
Dorothy Howell
English composer and pianist
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Rodion Shchedrin
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
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Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi
Estonian conductor
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Brett Dean
Brett Dean
Australian composer, conductor
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Mark Simpson
Mark Simpson
British composer and clarinettist
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Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox
English conductor
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Leif Segerstam
Leif Segerstam
Finnish conductor and composer
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Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas
French composer
Tobias Picker
American composer

Tobias Picker

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American composer
Genres
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Music
Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Academy of Arts and Letters

Tobias Picker (born July 18, 1954) is an American composer, director, and pianist.

Picker, after studying with the American rationalist triumvirate Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter, and Milton Babbitt, became noted for his orchestral works Old and Lost Rivers and The Encantadas, his operas Emmeline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Thérèse Raquin, An American Tragedy and Dolores Claiborne, and his ballet Awakenings (based on the book by Oliver Sacks), among many other works.