Paul Moravec
Paul Moravec (born November 2, 1957) is an American
Biography
Moravec was born in
Moravec has taught at
In 2004, Moravec received the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his work Tempest Fantasy.[6][7][8][9] This prestigious award raised Moravec's profile significantly, and he was appointed to several residencies. He was named the new honorary composer-member of the New York Composers Circle in September, 2006.[10] He was also appointed the composer in residence for the 2007-2008 academic year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[4][11]
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize, Moravec has received a Composer Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, and the Charles Ives Prize and Goddard Lieberson Awards in American Composition.[3] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.[12]
He has been commissioned by such ensembles as the Dessoff Choirs, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, and the Harvard Glee Club.[citation needed]
Musical style
Moravec has been placed into a group called "new tonalists" by the critic Terry Teachout, who describes them as composers who are "neither embarrassed nor paralyzed by tradition. Rather they accept it as a given."[1] Thus, according to this analysis, his style is primarily tonal and neo-romantic. However, Moravec himself asserts:
The term ‘new tonalist’ is a little outdated simply because of the passage of time[.] It had more relevance a few decades ago, when late modernism was dying or even dead. For my work, I regard the term only as a point of departure before considering each composition on a case-by-case basis. As a composer, I try always to make beautiful things, and I use whatever techniques and materials are useful for the particular composition at hand[.] Some of those materials are atonal or nontonal, but the overall harmonic context of my music derives from the tonal tradition, which after all is the lingua franca of Western music — essentially, Monteverdi to the Beatles and beyond.[4]
Critic
Critic Victor Carr Jr. characterizes Moravec's musical language as "generally tonal--and although it's not consistently melodic, it's always accessible. More than that, it's highly engrossing[.]"[14]
Musical works
His best-known pieces include the Pulitzer-winning,
Notes
- ^ a b c Page, Tim. "Paul Moravec." Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy. (Accessed 15 January 2007). http://www.grovemusic.com.
- ^ "NOTABLE ALUMNI". The Lawrenceville School. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
- ^ a b Curriculum Vita at PaulMoravec.com Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Shattuck, Kathryn (2007-04-22). "A Composer Who's Weathered Some Tempests of His Own". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-07-01.
- ^ Lambert, Bruce. "University Enjoys a Renaissance After 90's Strife", The New York Times. retrieved 8 April 2008.
- ^ Simeone, Lisa (April 5, 2004). "Moravec Wins Music Pulitzer: American Composer Recognized for Chamber Work". NPR. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
- ^ Downey, Charles T. (March 11, 2013). "Left Bank Quartet gives solid but spotty performance". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^ Lowe, Jim (February 25, 2005). "Paul Moravec: The conventional unconventionally". Barre Montpelier Times Argus. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Daniel Stephen (February 1, 2012). "Paul Moravec: Mining Tonality for New Intricacies, The Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer Introduces his Music". WQXR-FM. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^ "2004 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER PAUL MORAVEC JOINS NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE (NYCC)AS HONORARY COMPOSER-MEMBER" (Press release). New York Composers Circle. 2006-11-03. Archived from the original on 2006-12-17. Retrieved 2007-07-03.
- ^ "Institute Announces Appointment of Paul Moravec as Artist-in-Residence" (Press release). Institute for Advanced Study. 2007-03-26. Archived from the original on 2007-05-06. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^ Laurson, Jens F. (2007-07-18). "Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy et al., Trio Solisti". Retrieved 2007-07-02.
- ^ Carr Jr., Victor (2006-04-21). "PAUL MORAVEC: The Time Gallery; Protean Fantasy; Ariel Fantasy". Retrieved 2007-07-06.
- ^ "Paul Moravec Wins Pulitzer Prize For Tempest Fantasy". NewMusicBox. April 5, 2004. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
- ^ Biography at Paul Moravec's official website Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 8 April 2008.
External links
- Official website
- Interview with Paul Moravec, October 28, 2006