John Corigliano is an American composer, born in 1938, who has divided his time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley in New York and taught composition at the Juilliard School. His output of more than 100 works spans symphonies, concertos, chamber music, operas, film scores, and wind band works across a variety of styles, aiming for broad accessibility; notable pieces include his Symphony No. 1, written in response to the AIDS epidemic, and his Clarinet Concerto.

Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto was the first by an American composer to enter the standard repertoire since Aaron Copland’s, and his Symphony No. 1 is regarded as one of the most significant musical responses to the AIDS crisis. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, and an Academy Award for his score to The Red Violin, and as the first composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a longtime Juilliard teacher of students including Eric Whitacre and Nico Muhly, he has exerted substantial influence on contemporary American composition.

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