BORN: New York City, 9 June 1938
PRIZES, GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, 1986-91
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, 1979, 1981, 1982
Arts and Letters Award, Finlandia Foundation, 1976
Creative Artists Public Service Award, 1976
Phoebe Ketchum Thorne Honorary Award, 1973
Koussevitzky International Recording Award, 1970
Brandeis University, Creative Arts Awards Citation, 1970
Pulitzer Prize, 1970
Ingram Merrill Fellowship, 1969
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1968, 1972
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1967
World's Fair of Music and Sound, 1962
Santa Fe Opera, Festival Fellow, 1962
Evans Traveling Fellowship, 1961
Regents College Teaching Fellowship, 1961-62
Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, 1961, 1962
Phi Beta Kappa, 1960
BMI-SCA Award, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963
Arthur Rose Teaching Fellowship, 1960
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 1960
Alice M. Ditson Fellowship, 1959
Bearns Prize, 1958, 1959, 1961
Bennington Composers Conference Scholarship, 1956-60
New York Philharmonic's Young Composers Award, 1954
COMMISSIONS include:
Adelaide Festival (Australia)
Albany Symphony Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra
American/Soviet Youth Orchestra
Augustana College (150th anniversary of the Handel Oratorio Society)
Arden Trio
Baltimore Chamber Music Society (two works)
Baltimore Symphony (David Zinman, Music Director)
Beethoven Festival, Bonn, Germany
Beethovenhalle Orchestra, Bonn
Berkshire Music Center
Boston Symphony Orchestra (James Levine, Music Director)
Buffalo Philharmonic (Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (two works)
Cleveland Chamber Symphony
Cleveland Orchestra (2 Commissions, Lorin Maazel and Christoph von Dohnanyi Music
Directors)
Columbia String Quartet
Columbia University
Da Capo Chamber Players
Dartmouth College (to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Hopkins Center)
Fine Arts Quartet
Ford Foundation
Fromm Music Foundation
Houston Symphony
Hudson Valley Philharmonic
Koussevitzky Foundation (3 Commissions)
Library of Congress
Mellon Foundation
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (James Levine, Music Director)
Milwaukee Symphony
Minnesota Orchestra (Edo DeWaart, Music Director)
National Opera Institute
Naumburg Foundation
New Haven Symphony
New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
New World Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director)
New York City Ballet (5 works)
New York Philharmonic (Pierre Boulez, Music Director)
New York State Council on the Arts
Nonesuch Records (Time's Encomium, awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1970)
Oakland Symphony
Ojai Festival (for Michael Tilson Thomas)
Orchestra of America
Philadelphia Orchestra
Rutgers University
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony (4 Commissions, Edo DeWaart and Herbert Blomstedt, Music Directors)
Speculum Musicae (5 works)
TASHI (2 works)
Quad Cities Symphony
University of Chicago
Washington and Lee University
Solo works commissioned by: Ron Borror (trombone), David Braynard (tuba), Alan Feinberg
(piano), Paul Jacobs (harpsichord), Julie Landsman (horn), Ursula Oppens (piano), Max
Pollikoff (violin), Rascher Saxophone Quartet, Steven Schick (percussion), Fred Sherry
(cello), David Schuler (organ), David Starobin (guitar), Jeffrey Swann (piano), David
Taylor (bass trombone), Jean and Kenneth Wentworth (piano), Leonard Raver (organ), Todd
Seelye (guitar), William Anderson (guitar and piano), among others.
PERFORMING ACTIVITY, piano solo and conducting
American Composers Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Buffalo Philharmonic
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Colorado Spring Symphony
Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Helsinki Philharmonic
Hessiche Rundfunk, Frankfurt
Houston Symphony Orchestra
Indianapolis Symphony
Lisbon Radio Orchestra
Las Vegas Symphony
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Louisville Orchestra
Milwaukee Symphony
New York City Ballet
New York Philharmonic
Orchestra of St. Luke's
SFB Orchestra, Berlin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
San Diego Symphony
San Francisco Symphony
Tampere Symphony Orchestra, Finland
COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 1993
American Academy in Rome, 1990
San Francisco Symphony (and New Music Adviser to Music Director Herbert Blomstedt) 1985 -
1989
Cabrillio Music Festival, 1985
Ojai Festival, 1975
Wellesley Composers Conference, 1985
Louisville Orchestra, 1984
Grand Teton Music Festival, 1979 & 1980
Chamber Music Northwest, 1978
PUBLISHERS
C.F. Peters Corporation (BMI), principal publisher. Exclusively since
1970.
Belmont Music, McGinnis and Marx; G. Schirmer; Theodore Presser; Music for Percussion; New
Music Edition; Composers Facsimile Editions
RECORDINGS
Koch International Classics, Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch, New World, Bridge, Music &
Art, GM, CRI, AR (Deutsche Gramophone), Advance, Desto, Epic, Golden Crest, Mainstream,
Vox, Lexington, Cambridge, University of Iowa Press
BOOKS AND WRITINGS BY
Simple Composition (Published 1979 by Longman, Inc.; Reprinted 1995 by C.F. Peters); New
York Times, High Fidelity, Musical America, Perspectives of New Music, Prose, Genesis
West, Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, the New Grove's Dictionary, Proceedings of the
American Society of University Composers
BOOKS AND WRITINGS ABOUT
Charles Wuorinen: A Bio-Bibliography by Richard Burbank, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT
(1994); Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Esquire, Musical America, Saturday Review, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco
Examiner, San Jose Mercury-News, Perspectives of New Music, PC Computing, Who's Who
(American and International), Baker Guide, Grove Dic-tionary, among many others.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Rutgers University, Professor of Musical Composition, 1984 to present
Yale University, Visiting Professor, 1991 and 1983
State University of New York at Buffalo, Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1989
New York University, Visiting Professor, 1990
Manhattan School of Music, 1971 - 1979
University of South Florida, Visiting Composer-in-Residence, 1971
Princeton University, Visiting Lecturer, 1969 - 1971
New England Conservatory, 1968 - 1971
Columbia University, Assistant Professor, 1969 - 1971
Instructor, 1964 - 1969
University of Iowa, 1970
Manhattanville Music Curriculum Project (United States Office of Education), Consultant,
1967
AFFILIATIONS AND HONORARY SOCIETIES
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995
Meet The Composer, Board of Trustees, since 1992
American Academy of Arts and Letters, Member since 1985
Group For Contemporary Music, Co-Artistic Director since 1962
Composers Recordings Inc., Board of Directors, 1962 - 1989
Center for Contemporary Opera, Board of Directors, 1989 -
New Jersey Composers Guild, Board of Directors, 1988 -
American Composer Orchestra, President, 1984 - 1986
New York Philharmonic, Computer Music Festival, Co-Artistic Director, 1984
Meet The Composer, Advisory Board, 1983
American Music Center, Director, 1971
Perspectives of New Music, Editorial Board, 1968 - 1972
I.S.C.M., Board of Directors, 1967 - 1969
Independent Electronic Music Center, Advisory Council, 1967
Bennington Composers Conference, Trustee, 1962 - 1966
American Music Society (Great Britain), Advisory Board
LECTURES
American Symphony Orchestra League
American Guild of Organists
American Society of University Composers
Aspen Music Festival
Berkshire Music Center
Bowdoin College
Cleveland Institute of Music
Columbia University
Eastman School of Music
Juilliard School of Music
Manhattan School of Music
National Music Council
Princeton University
Rice University
Smith College
State University of New York (various)
Texas Tech
Union of Yugoslav Composers
University of California (Los Angeles, San Diego)
University of Colorado
University of Connecticut
University of Illinois (Urbana)
University of Iowa
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of Rhode Island
University of South Florida
University of Utah
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Yale University
EDUCATION
Columbia University, B.A. 1961; M.A. 1963
COMPOSITIONS
To date over 200 works; a list can be provided.
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Howard Stokar Management
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