David Lang

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David Lang (born January 8, 1957 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American composer . He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music for The Little Match Girl Passion .

Career

After completing his studies at Stanford University , he went to the University of Iowa and finally to Yale University , where he received his doctorate in 1989 .

He took further composition studies with Jacob Druckman , Hans Werner Henze and Martin Bresnick . Together with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe , he founded the New York project group Bang On A Can in 1987. In 1992 he was composer-in-residence at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In 2013/14 he occupied the Carnegie Hall's Debs Composer's Chair. David Lang has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1987), the National Endowment for the Arts , the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York (2002), and the New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997 and 2009). He has been a member of this academy since 2014.

David Lang has been Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music since 2008. In 2013 he was named Composer of the Year and in 2015 he was awarded the Order of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. David Lang's music is published by Red Poppy Music and is distributed worldwide by G. Schirmer Inc.

Works

Lang's music is inspired by minimalism as well as rock music , and can be described as post-minimalist or "totalism". He has significantly influenced the music of the Kronos Quartet in Requiem for a Dream .

David Lang has received numerous prizes such as the Rome Prize, the BMW Music Theater Prize and the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (1989). He received the Bessie Award in 1999 for his music to Susan Marshall's choreography The Most Dangerous Room in the House , performed live by the Bang on a Can All-Stars at the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He repeatedly works with well-known choreographers and dance ensembles such as Twyla Tharp , the Paris Opera Ballet , the New York City Ballet , Susan Marshall, Édouard Lock, La La La Human Steps, the Nederlands Dans Theater , Benjamin Millepied or the LA Dance Project. David Lang's works are performed at all major new music festivals around the world. He received u. a. Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra and the American Composers Orchestra . In 1999 he wrote a comic opera for the Italian Music Festival in Turin.

His piece Men , composed for the premiere at the festival neue musik im stadthaus ulm , was overshadowed and shaped by the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 .

With The Carbon Copy Building he won the 2000 Village Voice OBIE Award for "Best New American Work". The Pulitzer Prize for Music followed in 2008. The New Yorker named the recording of The Passing Measures (Cantaloupe Records) one of the best CDs of the year in 2001. The recording of Pierced (Naxos) received high praise from both the rock music platform Pitchfork and the British classical music magazine Gramophone. Lang received a Grammy Award in 2010 for the recording of The Little Match Girl Passion (Harmonia Mundi) , and with Simple Song No. 3 he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2015/16 .

Recordings

  • Are You Experienced (1989)
  • The Passing Measures (2001)
  • Child (2003)
  • Elevated (2005)
  • Pierced (2008)
  • The Little Match Girl Passion (2009)
  • (Untitled) Music from the Film (2009)
  • This Was Written By Hand (2011)
  • The Woodmans - Music from the Film (2011)
  • Death Speaks (2013)
  • Love Fail (2014)

Audio samples

Film (selection)

Ballets

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Pulitzer Prize winners for music: composer biographies,… - Page 270 Heinz Dietrich Fischer - 2010 2008 Award THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION BY David Lang David Lang (born on January 8, 1957, in Los Angeles, Ca.) holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, receiving his doctorate from the Yale School of Music in ...
  2. ↑ Steve Parrott: A UI homecoming for prize-winning composer , In: Iowa Now, October 4, 2012.
  3. ↑ Bang on a Can website . .
  4. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  5. ^ Foundation for Contemporary Arts.Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  6. ^ American Academy of Arts and Letters. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  7. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  8. ^ Yale School of Music. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ David Lang is Musical America's 2013 Composer of the Year
  10. ^ David Lang named Chevalier of France's Order of Arts and Letters. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  11. ↑ Red Poppy Music. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  12. ↑ David Lang at G. Schirmer Inc. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  13. ↑ Bessie Award Archive.Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  14. ^ Mirko Weber: Art and catastrophe. David Lang and the piece “Men” written for the town hall in Ulm. edition stadthaus, Volume 4, Ulm 2008, ISBN 978-3-934727-22-9 (also contains the correspondence from David Lang and the Stadthaus Ulm between September 11 and October 16, 2001)
  15. ^ Jayson Greene: Bang on a Can co-leader makes a refreshing and rare foray into solo territory . In: Pitchfork, March 20, 2009. Retrieved April 13, 2017
  16. ↑ Olivia Giovetti: The amazing appearances of David Lang In: Sounds of America. Gramophones guide to the classical scene in the US and Canada. October 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  17. ↑ Yale School of Music press release of December 15, 2015. Accessed April 13, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lang, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California