Skip to main content

Finalist: Adagio Tenebroso , by Elliott Carter

Premiered on October 15, 1995, in Birmingham, Ala., by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Winners

Prize Winner in Music in 1996:

George Walker

Premiered on February 1, 1996, in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and was commissioned by that orchestra. Music

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Music in 1996:

Peter Lieberson

Premiered on May 28, 1995, at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C.

The Jury

Richard Wernick(chair )*

composer, conductor, Magnin Professor of Humanities

David N. Baker

composer, distinguished professor of music

Leslie Bassett*

composer, Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor of Music

Mario Davidovsky*

composer, Fanny Peabody Mason Professor of Music

David Hamilton

doctoral faculty

Winners in Music

Morton Gould

Premiered on March 10, 1994, by the National Symphony Orchestra at The John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C..

Gunther Schuller

Premiered on December 2, 1993, in Louisville, Ky. Performed and commissioned by The Louisville Orchestra.

1996 Prize Winners