2015 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards Announced
In its ninety-first competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 173 Fellowships (including two joint Fellowships) to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of over 3,100 applicants. There are 11 composers among this year’s awardees:
Darcy James Argue
Matthew Barnson
Richard Carrick
Etienne Charles
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee
Steve Lehman
George E. Lewis
Andreia Pinto-Correia
Sean Shepherd
Rand Steiger
Amy Williams
Two additional music-related fellowships have also been awarded to music critic Alex Ross in the category of general non-fiction and University of Chicago-based music theorist Thomas Christensen in the field of music research. For a complete list of 2015 Guggenheim fellows, please visit the Guggenheim website.