Richard Danielpour, Composer
Grammy-Award winning composer Richard Danielpour is one of the most gifted and sought-after composers of his generation. His music has attracted an illustrious array of champions, and, as a devoted mentor and educator, he has also had a significant impact on the younger generation of composers. His music has been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Stuttgart Radio Orchestras, Orchestre National de France, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and San Francisco, Pittsburgh, National, and Baltimore Symphonies. His work has been championed by Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Dawn Upshaw, Emanuel Ax, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Hampson, Gary Graffman, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, the Guarneri, Emerson, and American String Quartets, and the New York City and Pacific Northwest Ballets. With Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, he is working on his first opera.

Richard Danielpour has received such prestigious honors as a Lifetime Achievement Award and Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Guggenheim Award, Bearns Prize from Columbia University, and grants and residencies from the Barlow Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Copland House, and the American Academy in Rome. In Fall 2002, he became one of the first recipients of a coveted Alberto Vilar Fellowship and Residency at the American Academy in Berlin. One of the most recorded composers of his generation, his music can be heard on SONY, Reference Recordings, Delos, Koch, Harmonia Mundi, and New World.

Richard Danielpour's music is published exclusively by
G. Schirmer, Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, Inc