Pulitizer Prize-winning Composer to Speak Jan. 30

Date: 1/22/07
Contact: Marc Lebovitz

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer composer Paul Moravec will speak on the Illinois State University campus in a School of Music convocation at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, in Kemp Recital Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

Moravec, who is the chair of music at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., was the recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his piece, "Tempest Fantasy." "Tempest Fantasy," Moravec said, is a musical medication on his favorite play by William Shakespeare.

A graduate of Harvard and Columbia, Moravec is considered a "new tonalist" for his melodic works. He has composed over 70 published orchestral, chamber, choral and lyric compositions as well as several film scores and electro-acoustic pieces. His music has earned numerous distinctions, including the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, a Fellowship in Music Composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship and Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts & Letters as well as many commissions.