Cantata Singers and Ensemble, David Hoose, conductor. Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Gilbert Kalish, piano, Sanford Sylvan, baritone, Dawn Upshaw, soprano. Simple Daylight/ Words from Patterson/Piano Quintet, (1999).Lydian String Quartet, Yehudi Wyner, piano. String Quartet No.1/String Quartet No.San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Bloomstedt, conductor, William Bennet, oboe. Emmanuel Music, Craig Smith, conductor, Rose-Mary Harbison, violin. World Premiere Recordings: Violin Concerto, Recordare, Seven Motets (1997).Lydian String Quartet, Dominique Labelle, soprano. 3, Fantasia on a Ground, Thanks Victor (2001). Samuel Chapter performed by Susan Larson (soprano) and conducted by John Harbison.Ulysses' Bow ballet performed by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and conducted by André Previn.John Harbison: Ulysses' Bow / Samuel Chapter (2004).Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet, and Strings.Performed by Lorraine Hunt, mezzo-soprano, Dawn Upshaw, soprano, Greenleaf Chamber Players, and Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Scott Yoo. Concerto for Double Brass Choir and Orchestra: I.On the Road Home, text from Wallace Stevens.Where We Must Look for Help, text from Robert Bly.The Flight into Egypt, text from the King James translation of the story of the Flight into Egypt in the Gospel of Matthew.Conducted by David Hoose, John Harbison, and André Previn. Performed by The Cantata Singers and Ensemble, The Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, and The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. The Flight into Egypt and other works by John Harbison (1990).Tracks 7-10: Variations, for violin, clarinet, and piano. Tracks 1-6: Mirabai Songs, text from Mirabai Versions by Robert Bly. Performed by Janice Felty, mezzo-soprano, Collage New Music Ensemble, conducted by John Harbison - Rose Mary Harbison, violin David Satz, clarinet Ursula Oppens, piano. He is married to violinist Rose Mary Harbison ( née Pederson). When asked in 1990 for his "artistic credo", Harbison replied: "to make each piece different from the others, to find clear, fresh large designs, to reinvent traditions". Harbison was previously the principal guest conductor for Emmanuel Music in Boston after founding director Craig Smith's death in 2007, Harbison was named Acting Artistic Director. Abraham, a six-minute composition for brass and antiphonal choirs, had its world premiere on January 17, 2004, performed by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and a choir made up of members of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the London Philharmonic Choir, the Krakow Philharmonic Choir, and the Ankara Polyphonic Choir, under the baton of Sir Gilbert Levine. The event was co-officiated by the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Rav Elio Toaff, the Imam of the Mosque of Rome, Abdulawahab Hussein Gomaa, and Pope John Paul II. Harbison was jointly commissioned by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue to write a piece for the Papal Concert of Reconciliation. In 1991, Harbison was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival in conjunction with Peter Maxwell Davies. The opera premiered on December 20, 1999, conducted by Levine and starring Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Susan Graham, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Mark Baker, Dwayne Croft, and Richard Paul Fink. The Metropolitan Opera commissioned Harbison's The Great Gatsby to celebrate James Levine's 25th anniversary with the company. ![]() In 2006 a recording of his Mottetti di Montale was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category. He was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal in 2000. In 1998 he was awarded the 4th Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1987 for The Flight into Egypt, and in 1989 he received a $305,000 MacArthur Fellowship. His works include several symphonies, string quartets, and concerti for violin, viola, and double bass. ![]() He is a former student of Walter Piston and Roger Sessions. ![]() He is an Institute Professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied music at Harvard University (BA 1960), where he sang with the Harvard Glee Club, and later at the Berlin Musikhochschule and at Princeton (MFA 1963). He won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of 16 in 1954. Harbison's sisters Helen and Margaret were musicians as well. The Harbisons were a musical family Elmore had studied composition in his youth and Janet wrote songs. John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbison and Janet German Harbison. John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works. For the Irish pathologist, see John Harbison (pathologist).
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