Matthew Tommasini
FINALIST OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPOSITION 2011
Composer's Biography
Matthew Tommasini (b.1978) has been awarded prestigious prizes including the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize and has been supported by grants from the ASCAP Foundation's Leonard Bernstein Fund and the American Music Center's Composer Assistance Program (CAP). He has been commissioned by prominent arts organizations including the Milwaukee Ballet, the New York Youth Symphony, and danzfest, an Italian international dance festival. His work been performed by principal members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Pacific Symphony and chamber ensembles including Antares, Parker Quartet, and Daedalus Quartet. Tommasini has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago-based series Music in the Loft and he continues to serve as Composer-in-Residence of the Connections Chamber Music Series, which he co-founded with members of the Pacific Symphony. He holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan (DMA, MA) where he studied with Bright Sheng, William Bolcom, and Michael Daugherty; and UCLA (BA) where he studied with Paul Chihara and Ian Krouse. Tommasini currently lives in Hong Kong where is Composer-in-Residence and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Associate Artistic Director of The Intimacy of Creativity, an internationally-acclaimed composers and performers workshop hosted by HKUST.
Finalist Work: Expert Level
| Awaken This Feeling |
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