David Lang

Educational Background

• AB (Honors), Stanford University, 1978
• MM, University of Iowa , 1980
• MMA, Yale School of Music, 1983
• DMA, Yale School of Music, 1989

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Awards and Honors:

• Pulitzer Prize in Music, for The Little Match Girl Passion, 2008
• Bessie Award, for The Most Dangerous Room in the House, 1999
• Village Voice OBIE Award for Best New American Work, for The Carbon Copy Building, 2000
• Rome Prize
• BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich)

 

Grants:

• Guggenheim Foundation
• Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts
• National Endowment for the Arts
• New York Foundation for the Arts
• American Academy of Arts and Letters

 

Professional Affiliations:

• Professor of Music Composition, Yale School of Music (2008-present)
• Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director, Bang on a Can (1987-present)

 

Recent Works (partial listing):

• The Little Match Girl Passion (commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Theater of Voices)
• The Passing Measures for orchestra
• Writing on Water (for the London Sinfonietta)
• Shelter (for Trio Medaeival and Ridge Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), with co-composers Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe
• The Difficulty of Crossing a Field, an opera (for the Kronos Quartet)
• Grind to a Halt (for the San Francisco Symphony)
• Loud Love Songs for percussion and orchestra (for Evelyn Glennie)

 

Recordings:

Works recorded on Sony Classical, Teldec, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, Caprice CRI, Naxos, and Cantaloupe, including:

• Are You Experienced (1992)
• The Passing Measures (Named one of the best CDs of 2001 by the New Yorker)
• Child (2003)
• Elevated (2005)
• Pierced (2008)

 

Works performed by or at (partial listing)

• Santa Fe Opera
• New York Philharmonic
• San Francisco Symphony
• The Cleveland Orchestra
• Kronos Quartet
• Tanglewood
• BBC Proms
• Munich Biennale
• Settembre Musica Festival
• Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival
• Almeida, Holland, Berlin, Strasbourg, and Huddersfield festivals
• Lincoln Center
• South Bank Centre
• Carnegie Hall
• The Kennedy Center
• The Barbican Centre
• Brooklyn Academy of Music

 

Works with Choreographers:

• Edouard Lock / La La La Human Steps
• Susan Marshall
• Twyla Tharp
• Shen Wei
• Nederlands Dans Theater
• Paris Opera Ballet
• Royal Ballet (London)

 

More information is available at www.davidlangmusic.com

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