DAVID LANG has been appointed to the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall for 2013-14. His season-long residency will include Creating New Music, a workshop for young composers and chamber ensembles that will take place in November 2013 under the auspices of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. In that project he will be joined by flutist Claire Chase and members of New York’s International Contemporary Ensemble in coaching the workshop artists, a collaborative process culminating in public premieres of the new works at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. (Information on Creating New Music, which has an application deadline of February 1, 2013, can be found at www.carnegiehall.org/workshops.) Lang, recently named 2013 Composer of the Year by Musical America, has an extensive catalogue of orchestral, operatic, chamber, and solo works. In 2008 he received a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a Carnegie Hall-commissioned work that also garnered a Grammy Award in 2010 in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of the New York-based music collective Bang on a Can and a professor of composition at Yale University.
David Lang photo by Peter Serling
Posted December 7, 2012
