Melinda Wagner: Difference between revisions

A resident of [[Ridgewood, New Jersey]], Wagner won the [[1999 Pulitzer Prize]] for her ''[[Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion|Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion]]''.<ref>Staff. [http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/03/an_unusual_trio_summons_its_ow.html "An unusual trio summons its own music"], ''[[The Star-Ledger]]'', March 26, 2009. Accessed November 4, 2012. "Wagner, of Ridgewood, won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999 for her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion" commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University.</ref> The Chicago Symphony has commissioned three major works -Falling Angels (1992); a piano concerto, Extremity of Sky (2002) for Emanuel Ax; andthe amost thirdrecent orchestralof workthese, Proceed, Moon, was premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Susanna Mälkki in 20062017. Extremity of Sky has also been performed by Emanuel Ax with the National Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, and the Staatskapelle Berlin.Other works have been performed by a number of orchestras, including the [[New York New Music Ensemble]], the Network for New Music, [[Orchestra 2001]], the [[San Francisco Contemporary Music Players]], and many other leading organizations.