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Kevin Puts
Winner of numerous prestigious awards, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for his debut opera Silent Night, Kevin Puts has had works commissioned, performed and recorded by leading ensembles, and soloists throughout the world, including Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Jeffrey Kahane, Dame Evelyn Glennie, the New York Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchester (Zurich), the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Miro Quartet and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Detroit, Atlanta, Colorado, Houston, Fort Worth, St. Louis and Minnesota.
His newest orchestral work, The City, was co-commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in honor of its 100th anniversary and by Carnegie Hall in honor of its 125th anniversary. His new vocal work Letters From Georgia, written for soprano Renée Fleming and orchestra and based on the personal letters of Georgia O’Keeffe, had its world premiere in New York in fall 2016, and his first chamber opera, an adaptation of Peter Ackroyd’s gothic novel The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia, had its world premiere i
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Former Mobile Symphony composer-in-residence Kevin Puts wins Pulitzer Prize
MOBILE, Alabama — Kevin Puts was one of three composers-in-residence who produced commissioned works for the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. Puts, along with Kenji Bunch and Mason Bates, long since moved past mild accolades such as “up and coming” and “promising” to become a respected composer.
The 40-year-old Puts added a bright new chapter to his biography Monday when he was named winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
He won for “Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts,” which was commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera on Nov. 12, 2011, in Minneapolis.
The New York Times story and a complete list of Pulitzer Prize winners can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/business/media/2012-pulitzer-prize-winners-announced.html?_r=2.
Puts last visited Mobile in January 2009
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Kevin Puts
(ST-LOUIS [UNITED STATES], BORN IN 1972)
Kevin Puts is often described as one of the most important American composers of his generation. Improvising on the piano for fun since he was around 8 years old, he went on to study piano and composition at university—first at the Eastman School of Music, and then at Yale. His talent for composition was recognized early on: at just 24 years of age, he was simultaneously appointed Composer-in-Residence for the New York-based organization Young Concert Artists and for the California Symphony. Puts is not yet 45 years old but his work has already garnered several prestigious honours, including the Pulitzer Prize for Music (2012) for his opera Silent Night (2011), and his works are performed by such internationally renowned artists and ensembles as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Mirò Quartet, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
His output includes some fifty works and is distinguished by its stylistic, formal, and instrumental diversity. On the one hand, his musical style could be qualified as “neo-Romantic
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