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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]
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 both 2017 and 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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