LUKAS FOSS

        Lukas Foss: Echoi, Fragments of Archilochos ...

Lukas Foss is a celebrated American composer. He has eagerly embraced a wide spectrum of musical languages of his time, producing a body of well over one hundred works. His compositions reconcile historical traditions and innovation, in music that ranges from serial, aleatoric, neoclassic to minimalist. His music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony, Yehudi Menuhin, New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, Orson Welles, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Guy Klucevsek, University of Buffalo Percussion Ensemble ...

Foss has been awarded numerous honors, including Pulitzer scholarship before he turned 20, the New York Critics' Circle Award for his oratorio, 'The Prairie' ... and at twenty-three, he was the youngest composer ever to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lukas Foss is a Vice Chancellor of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and holder of eight honorary doctorates. He received the New York Music Critics' Circle Award for 'Time Cycle', which was honored by conductor Leonard Bernstein, in an unprecedented gesture of respect, by performing the entire work twice the same premiere evening. Aaron Copland has called Lukas Foss "among the most original and stimulating compositions in American music." Tom Johnson (Village Voice) adds: "Little by little he is knitting together a body of work which may actually speak for contemporary culture as as whole more eloquently than any other ... the closest contemporary music has ever come to a real Mozart-caliber child prodigy."