Academy Award: David Rakowski

David Rakowski, Associate Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, has previously taught at Harvard University, Columbia University, and Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.F.A. from Princeton University and his Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory, where he studied with Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Robert Ceely, John Heiss, Paul Lansky, and Peter Westergaard. He won the Rome Prize in 1995, and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Djerassi Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His numerous commissions include the U.S. Marine Band, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Earplay, Boston Musica Viva, Fromm Music Foundation, Alan Feinberg, Speculum Musicae, and Parnassus. He has been Guest Composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference and Composer-in-Residence at Bowdoin Music Festival.