Prized Composers

Henry Brant

Personal Website:

http://www.henrybrant.com/

 

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize (2002): Ice Field for Augmented Orchestra and Improv. Organ

American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Prize (1955)

 

Compositions for Winds:

Dormant Craters (1995) for 16 Percussionists

Flight over a Global Map (1989) for 52 Trumpets, 3 Percussion, Piano, 2 Conductors

Whoopee in D (1938/1984) for 10 Winds

Millennium II (1954) for Wind Ensemble

Signs and Alarms (1953) for 10 Winds and 2 Percussion

Millennium I (1950) for 8 Trumpets and 3 Percussion

Street Music (3 Places in Montreal) (1949) for Winds and Drumset

Orbits for 80 Trombones

Ghosts and Gargoyles for 9 Flutes