Don’t miss acclaimed singer Amy Burton singing John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man, as part of the Brooklyn Philarmonic’s 2008 Corigliano Festival at the Brooklyn Public Library (Grand Army Plaza branch).
What a show! This performance will be at the brand new S. Stevan Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture (at the Brooklyn Public Library) on Saturday February 9th at 4 p.m.
Hear the wonderful Amy Burton in performance.
This event is FREE to the public.
Brooklyn’s John Corigliano is internationally celebrated as one of the leading composers of his generation. In orchestral, chamber, opera and film work, he has won global acclaim for his highly expressive and compelling compositions and his kaleidoscopic, ever-expanding technique. He has received virtually all of the most important prizes — several Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize for his Second Symphony, a Grawemeyer, and even an Academy Award for his score to Francois Giraud’s 1997 film “The Red Violin” — as well as honorary doctorates, awards, fetes, lauds, and accolades too numerous to list. He is one of the few living composers to have a string quartet named after him, and his work has been performed by some of the most visible orchestras, soloists and chamber musicians in the world, and recorded on the Sony, RCA, BMG, Telarc, Erato, Ondine, New World, and CRI labels.
Corigliano holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York, and serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1991, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; in 1992, Musical America named him “Composer of the Year,” their first ever. He has received grants from Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation.