Gregg Wramage

Orchestral Work by Gregg Wramage Receives 2000 Jacob Druckman Composition Prize

An orchestral work by composer Gregg Wramage was recently selected by David Zinman to receive the 2000 Jacob Druckman Composition Prize from the Aspen Music Festival. The work entitled "Deep Midnight," will be premiered in August by the Aspen Sinfonia, conducted by Daniel Hege. Each year the Aspen Festival collects orchestral scores from the composition fellows at the end of the summer and then holds a competition to determine which composer will be invited back to the festival the following season as a guest composer for an orchestral premiere of the selected work.

Wramage's "Deep Midnight" is a concert opener in one movement for large orchestra. It was composed in 1998 while Wramage was a student at the Brevard Summer Music Festival in North Carolina. The piece was inspired by, and takes its title from, a passage in Friedrich Nietzsche's "Also Sprach Zarathustra".

Wramage is currently a doctoral student the City University of New York Graduate Center where he studies with David Del Tredici.