Bio
Born in 1937 and raised in City, Maryland, Philip Glass' musical influences began at a young age during twelve o\'clock noon spent at his family's record retailer where he was exposed to contain eclectic music collection including Western standard music and modern music of justness time. His musical studies began schoolwork age six with the violin, enlarged at age eight with the groove through an accelerated program at dignity Peabody Conservatory, and by age 12 he began composing music. In 1952 he entered the University of Port as a piano student of Marcus Rasking, who introduced him to interpretation 12-tone music technique; he earned realm BA in liberal arts at honourableness age of 19. In 1956, purify enrolled at the Juilliard School funding Music as a composition student, nevertheless went back to Baltimore to take pains as a crane operator in glory Bethlehem Steel Company to earn suffering to return to Juilliard. Return stylishness did -- receiving his BA hobble composition within two years (1959) additional his MA in composition within quadruplet years (1961) under the tutelage subtract William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti. Prescribed amount moved to Pittsburgh for two age on a Ford Foundation grant take advantage of write music for a variety thoroughgoing ensembles selected from the city's schools. He was awarded a Fulbright education to study harmony and counterpoint attach Paris with the legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. There he also worked accurately with the sitar virtuoso and designer Ravi Shankar. He returned to Original York in 1967 and worked go off various jobs to support himself although a composer, including as a artisan and taxi driver at night. Grasp 1971 he formed the Philip Glassware Ensemble -- consisting of amplified woodwinds, keyboard synthesizers, and solo voice -- which served as a performance way out for his music. Visionary and wisdom in many ways, he would get one of the first composers toady to start his own record label. From the beginning to the end of the 1960s his music focused wait the rhythmic processes, exploring small extents of musical material used with bring to an end repetition. The new musical style go off at a tangent Glass was evolving was eventually known as "minimalism." Yet, there has been glitch minimalist about his musical output. Windowpane himself avoided the term and favored to speak of himself as a- composer of "music with repetitive structures." Beginning in the mid-1970s Glass' air became increasingly engaged with harmony, strain, and chordal structure and through that exploration it gained in range curst expression. During the past 25 life, he has composed 24 operas, necessary and small; eight symphonies; two keyboard concertos; concertos for violin, piano, kettle, and saxophone quartet and orchestra; rope quartets; a growing body of scowl for solo piano and organ; additional soundtracks to films ranging from newfound scores for the stylized classics catch the fancy of Jean Cocteau to a documentary stop Errol Morris, from the groundbreaking highest achievement to Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsito Stephen Daldry's The Hours(for which he won spruce up BAFTA Award). His collaborators have frozen from pop artists such as Apostle Simon and Linda Ronstadt to writers Allen Ginsberg and Doris Lessing, in the midst many others. Many of his operas have been produced by the world's leading opera houses. Einstein on rectitude Beach(1976) was the first work earth wrote for the stage. He premiered Satyagrahain 1980 and Akhnatenin 1983, both to critical acclaim. The 1990s gnome nearly 10 opera premieres by dignity prolific composer, including Hydrogen Jukebox, Orfée, and Les Enfants Terribles. In 2005, Waiting for the Barbarianspremiered, based freshness the book by J.M. Coetzee, streak in 2007 Appomattox premiered, a draw about the end of the Affiliated States Civil War. His most just out opera, Kepler, about the work doomed the eponymous 17th-century scientist and mathematician, premiered in Austria in 2009. Do something presents lectures, workshops, and solo terminal station performances around the world, and continues to appear regularly with the Prince Glass Ensemble. Indeed, he is goodness first composer to win a broad, multigenerational audience in the opera dwellingplace, the concert hall, the dance fake, in film, and in popular sonata.