James Cohn

James Cohn is an American composer born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in Composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950 cite web|title=Autobiography and Description of Symphonies 2 and 7
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He has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral works, and his catalog includes 3 string quartets, 5 piano sonatas and 8 symphonies. He was awarded a Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Prize for his Symphony No. 2 (premiered at Brussels) and an A.I.D.E.M. prize for his Symphony No. 4 (premiered in Florence at the Maggio Musicale). Among his earlier works (1946, preceding the 1948 second symphony) is a concertino for piano and orchestra [cite book | author=Hinson, Maurice | title=Music for Piano and Orchestra: an Annotated Guide | location=Bloomington, Indiana | publisher=Indiana University Press | year=1993 | pages=68 | isbn=0-253-20835-1
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In 2008 his 2nd and 7th symphonies were issued on compact disc by the Naxos label.

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