Michael
Gandolfi
Chair, Composition
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Michael Gandolfi has written works for the London Sinfonietta, Riverside Symphony Orchestra, Parnassus, Speculum Musicae, Sonor, Boston Musica Viva, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and the Orpheus, Los Angeles, and St. Paul chamber orchestras. His Points of Departure, written for Orpheus, was recently performed by the BSO. He received the first Paul Jacobs Memorial Commission from the Tanglewood Music Center in 1987, and has also received commissions and grants from the Fromm, Koussevitzky, and Guggenheim foundations and the NEA, among others. Gandolfi has received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters’ Charles E. Ives and Academy-Institute awards. In 2008, a new CD of Gandolfi's works, entitled The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, was released on Telarc.
B.M., M.M. with honors in composition, NEC. Studies with Oliver Knussen, William Thomas McKinley, and John Heiss. Recordings on CRI, Deutsche Grammophon. Former faculty of Harvard University. Director of Compositional Activities, Tanglewood Music Center.
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