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Lehman’s
John Corigliano
Wins 2001 Pulitzer Prize For Music
John Corigliano,
Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College in the
Bronx, received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his “Symphony
No. 2 for String Orchestra.” Last year, Professor Corigliano
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.
One of the
leading composers of his generation, Professor Corigliano
has received the music world’s major prizes and numerous
Grammy Awards for recordings of his work. He has taught at
Lehman since 1972. This latest work for which he received
the Pulitzer was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
on Nov. 30, 2000 at Symphony Hall in Boston.
Professor
Corigliano has been widely quoted in the press on his love
of teaching and the special pleasures of working with the
extraordinary group of music students on the Lehman campus.
“The
world knows John Corigliano through his brilliant work as
a composer,” said Lehman President Ricardo R. Fernández.
“Our students know him as Professor Corigliano, a remarkably
gifted teacher who inspires and encourages their own creative
efforts. We are grateful for his
commitment to our young musicians and congratulate him on
his latest accomplishment.”
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. It won a Grammy for Best Composition and
the 1991 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. His song
cycle, Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, debuted
in 1999 at Carnegie Hall. 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.
Lehman is
a senior college of The City University of New York located
at Bedford Park Boulevard West and Goulden Avenue in the northwest
Bronx.
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