Michael Hersch

Composer Michael Hersch has set the poetry of American poet Theodore Roethke, among others.

Photo: Michael Hersch, Johns Hopkins University Peabody Institute website

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About

Born in Washington D.C. in 1971, Michael Hersch first came to international attention at age twenty-five, when he was awarded First Prize in the American Composers Awards. The award resulted in a performance of his work Elegy, conducted by Marin Alsop in New York’s Alice Tully Hall in early 1997. Later that year he became one of the youngest recipients ever of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition. Mr. Hersch has also been the recipient of the Rome Prize (2000), the Berlin Prize (2001) and both the Charles Ives Scholarship (1996) and Goddard Lieberson Fellowship (2006) from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, three ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, and many other honors. Mr. Hersch was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Norfolk Festival for Contemporary Music, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. He studied at the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore, with additional studies at the Moscow Conservatory in Russia. He currently heads the Department of Composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

–Excerpted from www.michaelhersch.com

Related Information

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Recordings

the wreckage of flowers

(Michael Hersch)

2010

Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 for Cello

(Michael Hersch)

2009

The Vanishing Pavilions

(Michael Hersch)

2007

Hersch: Symphonies No. 1 & 2

(Michael Hersch)

2006

Michael Hersch: Chamber Music

(Michael Hersch)

2004

Hersch – Josquin – Rihm – Feldman

(Michael Hersch)

2004

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