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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran
American composer
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
American composer
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Donald Martino
Donald Martino
American composer
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Stefans Grové
Stefans Grové
South African composer
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Sean Hickey
Sean Hickey
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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Edison Denisov
Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
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Ernst Toch
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
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Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage
English composer
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William Sydeman
William Sydeman
American composer
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Erkki-Sven Tüür
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Estonian composer
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Joseph Schwantner
Joseph Schwantner
American composer
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Sergiu Natra
Sergiu Natra
Romanian composer
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Alan Ridout
Alan Ridout
British composer
Wayne Peterson
American composer

Wayne Peterson

Intro
American composer
Awards Received
Guggenheim Fellowship
Pulitzer Prize for Music
Fulbright Scholarship
Music

Wayne Peterson (September 3, 1927 – April 7, 2021) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark in 1992, when its board overturned the jury's unanimous selection of Concerto Fantastique by Ralph Shapey.