Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for music for "String Quartet n°2
(musica instrumentalis)"
Won a Diapason d'or Award in 1997 for "Best Contemporary Music Disc of
the year" ("Symphony No. 2", "Invisible Mosaic III," and "Musica
celestis" by Hugh Wolff and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
Graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the
Manhattan and Yale Schools of Music, working with composers as diverse
as John Adams, Charles Wuorinen and Jacob Druckman.
In 2002, received the coveted Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for
the cello and orchestra version of "Colored Field"
Won the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,
a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, an NEA grant, a Bearns Prize,
a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, and three BMI Student
Composer Awards.
New Music Advisor to the Minnesota Orchestra since 1998