Composer · 21st Century · 1938
John Corigliano
American composer (born 1938).
Biography
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. With over 100 compositions, he has won accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Academy Award.
He is a former distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and part of the composition faculty at the Juilliard School. Corigliano is best known for his Symphony No. 1, a response to the AIDS epidemic, and his film score for François Girard's The Red Violin (1997), which he adapted as his 2003 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("The Red Violin") for Joshua Bell.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “John Corigliano”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Works with clarinet
- Clarinet Concerto
Works with flute
- Three Irish Folk Songs Settings, for voice and flute
- Voyage, for flute and string orchestra