Lewis Spratlan
www.lewisspratlan.com

Lewis Spratlan, a member of the music faculty at Amherst College from 1970 until his retirement in 2006, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2000. Recent commissions include Earthrise, for the San Francisco Opera; Streaming, a piano quartet, for the Centennial Celebration of the Ravinia Festival; Wonderer, for pianist Jonathan Biss; Shadow, for cellist Matt Haimovitz; a concerto for a consortium of 30 saxophonists; A Summer’s Day, for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Process/Bulge for the New York ensemble Wet Ink. His opera Life is a Dream received its world premiere and four additional performances at the Santa Fe Opera in July and August 2010. His recently completed chamber opera, Architect, will be released on a Navona DVD/CD in the fall of 2011. A BMOP CD of Apollo and Daphne Variations, Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra, and A Summer’s Day is currently in preparation. Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano was recorded in August for an Albany records release during the coming season.