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John Corigliano
is one of the leading composers
of his generation. In 2001, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for Music for his Symphony No. 2, which was premiered in November
2000 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra,Seiji Ozawa conducting.
In March 2000, he received the
Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Red Violin,
a Canadian film that chronicles the story of one violin over
several centuries. His first score, for Altered States, was
nominated for an Academy Award in 1981, and his second, for
the British film Revolution, earned the 1985 Anthony Asquith
Award, that country’s equivalent of an Oscar.
Mr. Corigliano is a Distinguished
Professor of Music at Lehman College, where he has taught
since 1972. With each successive award, he has spoken widely
in the press about his love of teaching and the special pleasures
of working with the extraordinary group of music students
on the Lehman campus.
In his orchestral, chamber,
and opera works, Professor Corigliano has won global acclaim
for his highly expressive compositions and kaleidoscopic,
ever-expanding technique. The Ghosts of Versailles, commissioned
by the Metropolitan Opera, was a critical and popular success.
His Symphony No. 1, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
was the first major orchestral work written in response to
the AIDS epidemic. Awarded a Grammy for Best Composition as
well as the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, it
has been performed by more than 100 orchestras around the
world.
His song cycle, Mr. Tambourine
Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, debuted in 2000 at Carnegie
Hall. During that same season, Professor Corigliano employed,
for the first time, the use of live electronics with his work
Vocalise, one of six “Millennium Messages” commissioned
by the New York Philharmonic and Kurt Masur to the world's
leading composers.
In March 1999, Professor Corigliano’s
oratorio, A Dylan Thomas Trilogy, premiered at the Kennedy
Center and Carnegie Hall and, in Europe, at London’s
Royal Festival Hall. His collaboration with the National Symphony
brought the orchestra its first Grammy, in 1996, for Classical
CD of the Year, for its recording of Symphony No. 1 and Of
Rage and Remembrance.
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