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Past Artist in Residence

Paul Moravec

Field of Study

Composer
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The recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Moravec has composed more than ninety orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film, and electro-acoustic arrangements. His new opera The Letter, composed at the Institute last year, is scheduled to premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 2009. He also completed The Blizzard Voices, an evening-length oratorio, which Opera Omaha premiered in September 2008.

Dates at IAS

Artist in Residence

Degrees

Columbia University
D.M.A.
1987
Columbia University
M.A.
1982
Harvard University
B.A.
1975

Honors

2004
Pulitzer Prize in Music
1994
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
1994
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1985
Charles Ives Award in Music Composition (American Academy of Arts and Letters)
1984
Rome Prize Fellowship (American Academy in Rome)

Appointments

Institute for Advanced Study
2007–2009
Artist-in-Residence 2007–08; Artistic Consultant 2008–09
Dartmouth College
1987–1996
Assistant Professor 1987–93; Associate Professor 1993–96
Columbia University
1985–1987
Preceptor and Director, Columbia University Composers' Colloquium