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David Lang (born January 8, 1957) is an American composer living in New York City. Co-founder of the musical collective Bang on a Can, he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance by Paul Hillier and Theatre of Voices.
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Lang is a Professor of Music Composition at the Yale School of Music, and is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music collective Bang on a Can. His music is published by Red Poppy Music and G. Ricordi & Co., New York (ASCAP) and is distributed worldwide by the Universal Music Publishing Group.
Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms.
international business machine (1990) 5'. Passionate, prolific, and complicated, composer David Lang embodies the restless spirit of invention. Lang is at the same time deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms.
Professor Adjunct of Composition Yale School of Music. Graduating Class: ’83MMA ’89DMA. At YSM Since: 2008. Award (s): Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair (2013-2014), Musical America’s Composer of the Year (2013), Pulitzer Prize (2008) Contact. Website. David Lang. Everything in music connects.
Jan 18, 2016 · Facing the music Classical music. This article is more than 8 years old. Facing the music: David Lang. From Shostakovich to Stockhausen, and plainchant to Adele and Elvis, Oscar-nominated...
Lang grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a Lithuanian doctor and a German librarian. ‘I’m terrified of actors,’ he joked, even though he’s approaching a Hollywood A-list himself since writing music for Requiem for a Dream and more recently for Paolo Sorrentino films.
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