Prized Composers

Charles Wuorinen

Personal Website:

http://www.charleswuorinen.com/

 

Awards:

Pulitzer Prize (1970): Time’s Encomium

Guggenheim Fellowship (1968)

American Academy of Arts and Letters Music Award Winner (1967)

 

Compositions for Winds:

Brass Quintet (1999) 

Big Epithalamium (1997) for 16 trumpets

Windfall (1994) for Wind Ensemble

Saxophone Quartet (1992)

Fanfare for Rutgers University (1986)

Concertino for 15 Instruments (1984)

Archeopteryx (1978) for Brass TB solo, 10 instruments

The Winds (1977) for 9 winds

Wind Quintet (1977)

Chamber Concerto for Tuba with 12 Winds and 12 Drums (1970)

Chamber Concerto for Oboe and 10 Players (1965)

Compositions for Flute and 10 Instruments (1964)