Biography
John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar.
He is a former distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and part of the composition faculty at the Juilliard School. Corigliano is best known for his Symphony No. 1, a response to the AIDS epidemic, and his film score for François Girard's The Red Violin (1997), which he subsequently adapted as the 2003 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ("The Red Violin") for Joshua Bell.
Filmography
all 7
Movies 7
self 2
Self
Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty (2017)
Movie
Self - interviewee / Composer
Sharon Isbin: Troubadour (2014)
Movie
Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note (1998)
Movie
Composer
The Red Violin (1998)
Movie
Original Music Composer
The Ghosts of Versailles (1992)
Movie
Composer
Revolution (1985)
Movie
9
Composer
Altered States (1980)
Movie
4.33
Ratings
Average 6.16
Based on 81.6 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1980
1992
1998
2017
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1938-02-16 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, Academy Award for Best Original Score, honorary doctor of the University of Miami, Arts and Letters Award in Music, Rome Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Music, Grawemeyer Award
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