John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer whose music encompasses symphonies, concertos, opera, chamber works, and film scores. His catalog of more than 100 works has earned the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, five Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award, with performances and recordings by leading orchestras and soloists worldwide.

His Symphony No. 2 received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music, while Symphony No. 1 earned the 1991 Grawemeyer Award. His Academy Award-winning score for The Red Violin later provided material for a full-length violin concerto. Other major works include the percussion concerto Conjurer, introduced by Evelyn Glennie; Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus; and Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan for amplified soprano and orchestra.

Corigliano’s operas include The Ghosts of Versailles, commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera in 1991, and The Lord of Cries, premiered by Santa Fe Opera in 2021. His chamber and keyboard music includes a string quartet, a violin sonata, and Winging It, premiered by Ursula Oppens.

A member of the composition faculty at Juilliard, Corigliano has mentored generations of composers. He serves on the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Board of Directors, and his music is published by G. Schirmer.