Composer, Pulitzer Prize Recipient. He is remembered as the first African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 1996 musical score "Lilacs." Born George Theophilus Walker, he studied piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio and furthered his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following his professional debut at Manhattan's Town Hall, he became the first African American instrumentalist to sign with the National Concert Artists. In 1954, after touring Europe, he taught music at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana prior to receiving his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. The recipient of both a Fulbright and John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1957, he spent the next two years studying composition in Paris, France. Over the next five decades he received numerous awards, honors, and fellowships resulting from his more than 90 compositions for orchestra and other fields of music. In 2009 he released his autobiography "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist." He died at the age of 96.
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2023 June 15: prefix and suffix courtesy of W.K.K. CROWN ESTATE 49326523.
Composer, Pulitzer Prize Recipient. He is remembered as the first African American awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his 1996 musical score "Lilacs." Born George Theophilus Walker, he studied piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio and furthered his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following his professional debut at Manhattan's Town Hall, he became the first African American instrumentalist to sign with the National Concert Artists. In 1954, after touring Europe, he taught music at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana prior to receiving his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. The recipient of both a Fulbright and John Hay Whitney Fellowship in 1957, he spent the next two years studying composition in Paris, France. Over the next five decades he received numerous awards, honors, and fellowships resulting from his more than 90 compositions for orchestra and other fields of music. In 2009 he released his autobiography "Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist." He died at the age of 96.
Note: above not posted by original creator.
2023 June 15: prefix and suffix courtesy of W.K.K. CROWN ESTATE 49326523.
Note: above not posted by original creator.
2023 June 15: prefix and suffix courtesy of W.K.K. CROWN ESTATE 49326523.
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