Kevin Puts

Kevin Puts is an American composer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 3, 1972, Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands.

Puts has won composition prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome. He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival. His Cello Concerto was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma. Puts's works have been performed by the St. Louis Symphony, the Pacific Symphony and the Utah Symphony (with Evelyn Glennie as percussion soloist). His alma mater reports, "For several years, Kevin Puts received reviews describing him as a 'promising composer' and 'a young composer to watch.' But with a flurry of recent performances and prestigious commissions, Puts can now be described as one of America’s most important composers, period." [http://www.esm.rochester.edu/experience/showcase_apr_2005.php]

Puts recently left a post as Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, which he held from 1997 until 2005. He now teaches composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.----Orchestral works:Exalted Virelai, Falling Dream, Inspiring Beethoven, John Brown’s Body, Millennium Canons,Network,River’s Rush, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 2: Island of Innocence,Symphony No. 3 (“Vespertine”),Symphony No. 4,...this noble company,Vespertine Elegy

External links

* [http://www.kevinputs.com/ Kevin Puts official site]