Composers
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.