Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-born composer whose work includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and operatic music. She began composing in childhood and continued her studies in the United States with support from the Mannes College of Music and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Her Symphony received the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Ran joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1973 and is Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor Emerita. She served as composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1990 to 1997 and with Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1994 to 1997, where her opera Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk) was premiered. Her honors include two Guggenheim Fellowships and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.