10 Composers Among the 181 Guggenheim Fellows for 2012

10 Composers Among the 181 Guggenheim Fellows for 2012

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2012 fellows in the United States and Canada. A total of 181 Fellowships have been awarded to scholars, artists, and scientists—among them ten composers—chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

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Top row (left to right): Mincek, Previte, Hagen, Hodge, Soper;
Bottom row (left to right): Makan, Fang, Cipullo, Fung, Ye
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2012 fellows in the United States and Canada. A total of 181 fellowships have been awarded to scholars, artists, and scientists chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants for this 88th annual competition. The ten composers chosen this year are: Tom Cipullo, Fang Man, Vivian Fung, Daron Hagen, Huck Hodge, Keeril Makan, Alex Mincek, Bobby Previte, Kate Soper, and Xiaogang Ye. A 2012 fellowship has also been awarded to musicologist Carol J. Oja, whose upcoming book Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art, Race, and Progressive Politics in a Time of War is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

A complete list of the 2012 fellows, with biographical links, is posted on the Guggenheim Foundation’s website.