John Corigliano

John Paul Corigliano ( born February 16, 1938 in New York City ) is an American composer.

Life

Corigliano comes from a musical family: his mother was a pianist and his father from 1943 to 1966 concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. He studied at Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music and was a student of Otto Luening, Vittorio Giannini and Paul Creston. He was professor of music at Lehman College and New York University. Since 1991 he has taught at the Juilliard School of Music.

He devoted his dark, sprawling first symphony in 1989 the friends he had lost to the disease AIDS. His first film score for the film The trip to hell ( Altered States ) in 1981, nominated for an Oscar, the second for the film Revolution in 1985 awarded the British Anthony Asquith Award. In 1999 he received a Canadian Genie Award and a Prix Jutra for film music in The Red Violin ( The Red Violin ), in the following year an Oscar. In 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Second Symphony. Corigliano lives with his partner, composer Mark Adamo, in New York City.

Works (selection)

  • Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1964
  • Poem in October by Dylan Thomas, for tenor and 8 instruments, 1970
  • Oboe Concerto, 1975
  • Etude Fantasy for Piano 1976
  • Clarinet Concerto, 1977
  • Pied Piper Fantasy, 1981
  • Symphony No. 1, 1989
  • The Ghosts of Versailles, opera, 1991
  • String Quartet, 1995
  • Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra, 2007
  • The Red Violin, film music, 1997
  • The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra, 1997
  • Chiaroscuro, 1997
  • DC Fanfare, 1997
  • Dodecaphonia, 1997
  • Symphony No. 2, 2000
  • Vocalise for Soprano, Electronics, and Orchestra, 1999
  • A Dylan Thomas Trilogy for treble, tenor, baritone, chorus and orchestra, 1999
  • Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan, song cycle, 2000, orchestrated 2003 version
  • Phantasmagoria, 2000
  • Circus Maximus, Wind Symphony, 2005
  • The Mannheim Rocket
  • Promenade Overture
  • " Three Irish Folksong Settings", for voice and flute, 1991
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