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John Harbison was born on 20 December, 1938, is an American composer. Discover John Harbison's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?
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The Metropolitan Opera commissioned Harbison's The Great Gatsby to celebrate James Levine's 25th anniversary with the company.
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbison and Janet German Harbison.
The Harbisons were a musical family; Elmore had studied composition in his youth and Janet wrote songs.
Harbison's sisters Helen and Margaret were musicians as well.
He won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of 16 in 1954.
He studied music at Harvard University (BA 1960), where he sang with the Harvard Glee Club, and later at the Berlin Musikhochschule and at Princeton (MFA 1963).
He is an Institute Professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is a former student of Walter Piston and Roger Sessions.
His works include several symphonies, string quartets, and concerti for violin, viola, and double bass.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1987 for The Flight into Egypt, and in 1989 he received a $305,000 MacArthur Fellowship.
In 1991, Harbison was the music director of the Ojai Music Festival in conjunction with Peter Maxwell Davies.
Harbison was jointly commissioned by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity and the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue to write a piece for the Papal Concert of Reconciliation.
The event was co-officiated by the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Rav Elio Toaff, the Imam of the Mosque of Rome, Abdulawahab Hussein Gomaa, and Pope John Paul II.
In 1998 he was awarded the 4th Annual Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities.
He was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal in 2000.
Abraham, a six-minute composition for brass and antiphonal choirs, had its world premiere on January 17, 2004, performed by members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and a choir made up of members of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, the London Philharmonic Choir, the Krakow Philharmonic Choir, and the Ankara Polyphonic Choir, under the baton of Sir Gilbert Levine.
In 2006 a recording of his Mottetti di Montale was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category.
Harbison was previously the principal guest conductor for Emmanuel Music in Boston; after founding director Craig Smith's death in 2007, Harbison was named Acting Artistic Director.
