John Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938 in Orange , New Jersey ) is an American composer , conductor and university professor.
Life
John Harbison founded a jazz band at the age of twelve. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1960 as a student with Walter Piston at Harvard University , continued his studies at the Berlin University of Music in 1961 with Boris Blacher and in 1963 received a Master of Fine Arts at Princeton University as a student of Roger Sessions and Earl Kim . After a Junior Fellowship at Harvard, Harbison became a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he has been a professor of music since 1984.
Harbison has also taught at CalArts , Boston University and Duke University and has been composer-in-residence for various orchestras (including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Tanglewood ). As a conductor, he has led numerous smaller and larger ensembles, including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra , Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
The cantata Flight into Egypt earned Harbison the Pulitzer Prize of Music in 1987 . Also in 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1989 he received a MacArthur Fellowship . In 1992 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters . His other awards include the Heinz Award for the Arts and Humanities (1998), the Harvard Arts Medal (2000), the American Music Center's Letter of Distinction (2000), the Distinguished Composer Award from the American Composers Orchestra (2002) and several Honorary doctorates.
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Harbison's compositional work includes seven symphonies, twelve concertos, a ballet ( Ulysses , 1983), three operas (including the opera The Great Gatsby, composed on a separate libretto for the Metropolitan Opera , premiered in 1999), numerous chamber music works (including six string quartets) as well as choral works. Harbison composed several violin compositions for his wife Rose Mary, with whom he jointly directs the Token Creek Chamber Music Festival, founded in 1989.
Web links
- Biography at Music Sales Classical (engl.)
- Information at bach-cantatas.com (English)
- Biographer. Information at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (English.)
- Biography near Naxos ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Biography at Music Sales Classical , as of October 2018 (engl.)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Harbison, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harbison, John Harris (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, conductor and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Orange , New Jersey , United States |