Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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American composer
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Degrees
- Bachelors Music Florida State University
- Masters Music Florida State University
- Doctorate Composition Juilliard School
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s, she had shifted to a postmodernist, neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
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