Awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his piano concerto Chiavi in mano, Yehudi Wyner has composed over 100 works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo voice and solo instruments, piano, chorus, and music for the theater, as well as liturgical services for worship. He has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony, the BBC Philharmonic, the Library of Congress, the Ford Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the Endowment for the Arts, the Fromm Foundation, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Worldwide Concurrent Premieres, among others. His recording The Mirror (Naxos) won a 2005 Grammy Award, while Chiavi in Mano (Bridge Records) was nominated for a 2009 Grammy, and his Horntrio (1997) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Wyner’s many honors include two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Rome Prize, the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, and the Elise Stoeger Prize given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for “lifetime contribution to chamber music,” as well as several honorary doctorates. He has served as President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters which awarded him its Gold Medal for Music in 2020.
Yehudi Wyner has also had an active career as a solo pianist, a chamber musician collaborating with notable vocal and instrumental colleagues, a teacher, as the director of two opera companies, and as conductor of numerous chamber and vocal ensembles in a wide range of repertory.
October 2 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Village Voices