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Jay Schwartz (born June 26, 1965) is an American composer. [1] [2]
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Jay Schwartz (born June 26, 1965) is an American composer. [1] [2]
Schwartz's father was a professional boxer before becoming a swimming pool maintenance worker in San Diego, where Schwartz was born. [3] His mother was a kindergarten teacher. Schwartz began playing the piano at a young age and taught himself composition. He studied music at Arizona State University, graduating in 1989. He pursued musicology in Tübingen, Germany. [1]
From 1992 to 1995, he worked in the archives at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Germany. Schwartz was initially employed as a manual labourer, then as an archivist, and later as an assistant composer for incidental music. [1]
His compositions have been performed at many festivals, including New York Philharmonic Biennial, Salzburg Festival, Biennale di Venezia, and Vancouver New Music Festival. His works have been performed by many orchestras and ensembles, including New York Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR), and Staatskapelle Weimar, Ensemble Modern.
In 2000, he received the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Prize for composition from the city of Cologne, Germany. He is also a three-time recipient of the Strobel-Fellowship for electronic music from the Südwestrundfunk.
In 2014, he was awarded a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and in 2017/2018 [2] he received the Rome Prize for a residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2019, he was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. [4]
His works are published and represented by Universal Edition in Vienna, London, and New York. [5]
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